The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-24
Our Daily Sport Story

| yondah My tante Camille send me word come mek visit wit her. Go to
 ball"
 And Aristide," gasped Madam Riel. "Hewee," shrugged Sylvanfe, T don't lcare for Aristide, me. I don go wit
 hime no more"
 E "Jamais plus repeated Madam. Then she caught her que. "Bien." she
 said cheefully, You can wear your l robe blanch at das ball. But, cherie Iyou can't go by the beeg road by your
 self and your papa ain't here. Me. I
 aan't go. I got to bake das bread.
 voila. You can go wit Teophee and ! Hermina. What dress you going wear
 tomorrow. your pink dress? And 1t Is
 not yet ironed. An. heaven we must hasten. Vite, cherie, vite, portez, le robe''-so madam ran on. helping the J girl to cloak her hurt under e hustle tof preparation but wondering the
 while what 1t could be that had scv-
 cred the sweethearts of six years standing on the very eve of the bands. | That night at church Sylvanie told
 one of the girls how she was going to
 the big ball at L1sle with her cous- in Theophile and that night an hour
 later everybody along the Bayou Bien-
 vieu was marveling, saying: "Et Aristide?"
 | left/in the dark Next morning at
 dawn he sought Aristide at the coal
 kiln questioning:
 You ain't going to das beeg ball at L'Isle. No?"
 ".No." said Aristide shortly. "r ain't going me-" Dieu connais. he was Tn | no mood for balls.
 "Dey say. Sylvanie, she go wit her cousin Teophee."
 | Aristides manner changed at that.
 He smiled genially and said, 'C'est | bon," with cheerful heartiness Ha. but immediately after kicked off his to chop. Showering chips so thick and fast that Dazier grinned and went away.
 Coin wit T'eophee." Aristide chop ped fast, seeing things red. Not see- | ing the ax that leaped in and out be- | tween his naked feet. A sharp ax, yes v"Going wit Teophee.---the keenest edge and the quickest stroke on the | bayou. Coin wit T'eophee." The log groaned and slipped apart. Mechanically but with swift precision | lengths and began another ct.u Coin wit Teophee?" He saw Theo- pile in his brand new sulky swinging through the sunshine on the big road. He saw Sylvanie gay in her pink dress at his side. Her eyes danced-Hein, had he been blind to do a thing like that
 "Hoo-ee, hoo-ee- Sylvanie stopped. bundle in hand. "Hoo-ee, hoo-ee sire knew well what that call meant Tire cry of distress. That heard must be answered. Some chopper alone in the wide woods had been caught by a fall hrrt hxr team or had cut himself 'Hoo-ee, hoo-ee," the cry sounded fainter, may be the man was bleeding to death An. she must hasten, she must run and tell Teophee that some one was hurt in the branch; some one was bleeding to death. An, mere du dieu grant that she might get help in time. She for got her wild pain and wilder plans for vengeance. Tossing her precious bundle upon some bushes. she gathered her dainty skirts for flight. 'Hoo-ee, hoo-hee." Ha, what was it in that fainting call that whipped color from the girls face ana sent her on a run through that swamp at a speed the dark trees had not looked upon since their last deer fled the hunters. An accent. a shadow of sound a tone. Sylvanie ran and as she ran si1e pray- ed brokenly with parted lips-"Oh, mere du dieu-oh Aristide-Oh, mere du dieu, merci. merci. An, if he die-if he be already dead.
 But Aristide was alive, lying on his back holding a!oft the gashed foot, gripping tight and fast the ankle be- low 1t. Ha, very much, alive when he saw his rescue. "Seevarnee," he said then at a motion from her lay quiet while she caught the handkerchief from his neck and bound 1t below the cut bound 1t and twisted hard. Tho bloody flow became a trickle, then ceased entirely. syIvanie spoke trem- ulously T go get somebody to fetch you home
 Aristide's hand caught hers. Sec varnee, Seevarnee. ma petite" his voice sobbed with pleading. His clasp drew her close.
 ''Titfde." Ha, she had never called him by that name before. His pet name. And as though that sweetness was not enough to drug his senses she hid her face on his breast with whisper-something he had never been able to coax from her during the whole six years of courtship and CO., quetry. "Je t'adore."