The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-01-05

charged froAA tASFs. kfE comrades. WsO
baptized him tsilenr william made
an Arrangement. for him to go with q
workman, a mason, and to work for
his living, and he went ~contentedly to
| carry brick and cement, happy IL the
daughter of Salome would bring him
the meals which she had herself pre-
pared.
"She it, was who took him under her
protection, and finally refusing all
other land many of them advantageous
offers of marriage). went one day to
the church with Silent William and
they were married.
civilian has need Of me- she said,
more than the others
"The village was indignant.
"Some years passed. Silent Will
lam carried. day by day, his loads or
masonry and S4lome did her full part
with her vigorous arms in earning the
bread for the family growing up
around them. And so it might have
gone on.
"But one wintry day, when the wind
and rain were impetuouS. Williams
work was to carry his load up a high
scaffolding. The other men had taken
refuge from the storm. but he kept
on. At this moment Salome, who had
come with his dinner, terrified at an
unusual gust of wind, cried:
civilians! William! In the name Of
heaven, descend quickly
HE turned to her as he heard her
cry, and, m%istaking his footing. slipped
and fell. He was quickly carried to
the hospital, and lowered many days
between life and death. The whole
village, hearing the news. openly con-
graduated Salome on the approaching
decease of her husband.
"'Far better for him and for you,'
said they.
zone day when she arrived at the
hospital she found the bed empty. An
other room had been taken for him.
They took him there that morning.
Was he dead? Her heart leaped to
her throat. Coming to the door indi-
Gated. she knocked and was met by
an old man of noble appearance, who
said briefly that his son was sleeping,
and received no one. Salome answered
humbly, she did not seek the son Of
monsieur, but her husband, William
Hosi.
HE tried to make her story short.
but a voice came from the room. Let
her enter, father; she is the good wife
of the late William HOsi.'
with a cry of savage JOY the wo-
man rushed to his side, threw herself
on her knees beside the bed and cried
out between laughter and tears, My
God, 1 thank Theev Then, raising her
eyes. she was COMPOUNDED with the
change in his c~ountenance. The no.
bility of his face had returned to him.
his energetic will, his brilliant eyes, Inn
perious voice, the joy of living. had
come back again. Even her boy. Sep
herl, trying to hide in the skirts of her
dress, Sobbed out: Father is not faith
er now. He has changed When SiT
lent William reflected on what had
passed, he could now remember the
attack on the hill, at lily, but the
other life, as a mason. lay hidden un-
der a shade, only the love of Salome
and that last call for pity which
brought about the fall from the lad
der remained and the doctors declared
hat this had in some sort re-estab-
lished the life which was lost at Sc
dan.
lone peve knew what passed that
morning between the Two, but the first
words of Salome, when she came to
understand all that had happened,
was:
"tAnd now you have no mor need
of me, William, adieu.' And she got
up from her knees to go.
"IAh, WE'LL" said Major Xylander,
with a careless air, cit is certain if the
Count of Alleneck had repudiated his
wife Salome, whom I must call now
Anne Marie Hosi, his savior in those
years of distress, now that he had
come to his own, the humiliation of
this evening would have been saved
him."
The signal for supper a now CIV
en-. The lackeys opened the doors, and
all prepared for the somewhat cere-
monious entry into the grand saloon.
When Macmillan d'Alleneck and his
wife r~eappeared, calm but very pale,
all eyes turned to them gain.
Then His Highness, the Prince, step
ping forward to Anne Marie, offered
her his arm, and said with a gracious
smile, so all could hear:
Madame the Countess, will you do
me the honor?"
Wiles of the Taxidermist.
These are busy days for the taxider-