The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-08
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. over as he might a Jog of the elbow,
repeated it with garbled truths to make
I a scandal of a story which bore none
on a plain relation.
He did not reach his deduction. NJ.
/ de Chateaurfen, breaking into his mar
rative. addressed him very quietly.
/ Monsieur" he said, none but swine
deny the nobleness of that good and
gentle lady, Mademoiselle Ia Princesse
I de Bourbon-Coni. Every Frenchman
know that her cousin is a bad rebel
and migrate. who had only honor and
I rispec' for her, but was so Wilful he
could not let even the king say, You
shall marry here, you shall marry
there. My frien's, the young man
/ turned to the others, may I ask you
/ to close roun in a circle for one mo-
ment? It is clearly shown that the
/ Duke of Orleans is a scurvy fellow,
but not" he wheeled about and
! touched Captain ROhrer on the brow
with the back of his gloved hand-fbut
not so seurvy as thou, thou swine of
the gutter!"
| Two hours later. with perfect ease,
I'he ran Captain ROhrer through the
left shoulder-after which he sent a
basket of red roses to the Duke of
] Winterset. In a few days he had
another captain to fight. This was a
ruffiing buck who had the astounding
| indiscTetion to proclaim NJ. de Cha
teaurien an impOster. There was no
! Chateaurien, he sWOre. The French
man laughed in his face, and, at twi-
! light of the same day, pinked him
carefully through the right shoulder.
1t was not that he could not put aside
the insult to himself he declared to
Mr.. Molyneux, his second, and the
few witnesses. as he handed his wet
sword to his lackey-one of his sta
ton could not be insulted by a doubt
of that statiOn-but he fought in the
quarrel of his friend Winterset. This
rascal had asserted that NJ. lie Due
had introduced an impOster. Could
he overlook the insult to a friend, one
to whom he owed his kind reception
in Bath Then, bending over his fall
len adversary, his whispered: ''Naugh-
ty man, tell your master find some bet
ter quarrel for the mex he SEN agains'
me-"
The conduct Of M. de Chateaurien
was pronounced admirable.
There was no surprise when the
young foreigner fell naturally into the
long train of followers of the beauti-
ful Lady Mary Carlisle, nor was there
great establishment that he should OBJ
tain marked favor in her eyes, shown
so plainly that my Lord Townbrake,
Sir Hugh GuilfOrd, and the rich Squire
BantisOn, all of whom had followed her
through three seasons, sWore with
rage, and his Grace of Winterset
stalked from her aunt's house with
black brows.
Meeting the Duke there on the even
ing after his second encounter, de Cha
teaurien smiled upon him brilliantly.
ut was badly done; oh, so badly" he
whispered. Can you afford to have
me strip OF my mask by any but YOUR
self? You, who introduce me? They
will say there is some bad scandal that
/ I could force you to be my godfather.
You mus get the courage yourself"
| Il told you a rose had a short life, -
was the answer.
"Oh. those roses! IT'S the very great
es' rizzon to gather each day a fresh
one" He took a red bud from his
/ breast for an instant. and touched it 20
/ his lips.
IN. de Chateaurien!" It was Lady
Mary's voice; she stood at a table
where a vacant place had been left be-
side her. IN. de Chauteaurein, we have
! been waiting very long for you"
The Duke saw the look she did not
know she gave the Frenchman, and
he lost countenance for a moment
I'VE approach a climax. eh, mon
sieur?" said NJ. de Chateaurien