The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-06-09

open the packet. Then must tell
you something that has escaped myI
mind until now"
Breakfast was soon despatched;
and, after thanking Madame Teche
for her hospitality, her guests took
their leave, pursued, until out of hear
ing, by voluble farewells and urgings
to come again.
Murier walked with them to the
beach. which they found deserted,
with the full tide rolling in over the
pebbled sand in a hushed way, as II
its mood we're depressed.
LATTE, drawing scarlet handker-
chief from his pocket, waved 1t above
his head; and the master of the fish,
ing-smack replied with speedy hull
loa that came family across the
water.
The fisherman beached his boat
near Greloire, who now called to
them, and stood waiting as they
strolled along to join him.
The captain Of the smack was
easily shuuCCu W iduu htS pdSSCh6Vtc
on the French coast; and they we're
scarcely under way before the former,
| asking Greloire to accompany him,
went below. to open the package.
II was somewhat bulky, and as his
fingers broke the last wrapping, q
collection of papers, some of them
discolored by years. others evidently
Of more recent date, fell upon the
cabin table. And in their midst shsne
the dull gold frame Of an ivory
painted miniature.
For a second LATTE stared at this
then, picking It up, he looked intently
at the gypsy-like face Of the portrait
"Ah, mon Dieu! How came the
emperor by this?" he cried choking
ly. the sight Of the beautiful face
which Margot had taught him to love
as the mother whom he had never
known, making the past more rea
than the present.
Greloire, who was lighting a cigar
said dryly, Examine the papers, ant
II they do not tell you, perhaps car
| do So"
LATTE glanced at them hurriedly
They comprised his parents marriage
| certificate, and all the other papers
| together with the jewels, that hat
been in the small iron box so man,
years ago. There were also more re
| cent papers, showing that the prop
erty in Languedoc had been released
from sequestration, and held in trus
by Napoleon, emperor of France, To-
Jean, son and heir of the Baron -
and sometimes known as Jean LATTE
| of Louisiana, in North America"
| All the documents were there show
ing in detail the legal proceedings, in
stituted and perfected under the Con
sulate, and confirmed under the EN-
pire.
AS the last paper fell from hi
hand, LATTE buried his face in hi
crossed arms amid the heap of pre-
cious things upon the table.
All the past was rolling in upol
him. a sea of living reality, so distinc
and intense that the present appeare,
dim and vaporous.
What had, but last night, SCENE,
to him legitimate in the light of hi
everyday world, as he met its events
now looked honor-stained when con
fronted with the appealing sweetness
of the pictured face that had repre-
vented to his boyhood all that wa
best and purest, and the present sigh
of which had brought so wildly be
fore his mental vision the dimme,
face of faithful Margot, and tina
proud, stately man he had known a
father, of whom he could recall n,
word or act dictated by other than
sense of the highest honor toward hi
fellows.
And Bonaparte, the idol OF hi
youthful heart, but for so many year
doubted and mistrusted,-he had OF
tanned and treasured these proofs O
the hayward boys position as tina
fathers son and heir, while the sol
himself was risking In alien lands tn
sacrifice of his rightful name an
heritage!
An anguished silence kept hin
mute; and Greloire. as II understand
ing this, said nothing.
Ito be continued.)