The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-22
CHAPTER l.

Inside the window was furnish
ed with d broad bancal of brown
stamped Spanish leather where tbs
family might recline and have an eye
from behind the curtains on all that
was going forward in the busy world
beneath them. Two of them sat there
now, man and woman, but their
backs were turned to the spectacle and
their faces to the large and richly fur
nished room. From time to time they
stole a glance at each other, and their
eyes told that they needed No other
sight to make them happy.
Nor was it to be wondered at, for
they were a well favored pair. She
was very young, twenty at the most.
with a face which was pale, indeed,
and yet of brilliant pallor, which was
so clear and fresh and carried with it
such a suggestion of purity and inno-
cence that one would not wish its
maiden grace to be marred by an in
trusion of color. In her whole express
sion there was something quiet and
subdued, which was accentuated by
her simple dress of black taffeta. Such
was Adele Catinat, the only daughter
of the famous HuguenOt cloth mer-
chant.
But if her dress was somber it was
atoned for by the magniicence of her
companion. He was man who might
have been ten years her senior, with
keen soldier face. small well marked
features, a carefully trimmed black
mustache and dark hazel eye which
might harden to command a man or
soften to snpplicate woman and be
successful at either. ANY Frenchman
would have recognized his uniform as
being that of an officer in the famous
Blue guard of Louis XIV. A trim,
dashing soldier he looked, with his
curling black hair and well poised
head Such he had proved himself be-
fore now in the field, too. until the
name of Amory de Catinat had become
conspicuous among the thousands OF
the valiant lesser noblesse who hat
fiocked into the service of the king.
They were first cousins, these two
and there was just sufficient resem-
blance in the clear cut features to re-
call the relationship. De Catinat was
sprung from a noble Huguenot family,
but, having lost his parents early. he
had Joined the army and had worked
his way without influence and against
all odds to his present position. His
fathers younger brother, however. find
ing every path to fortune barred to
him through the persecution to which
men of his faith were already subject
ed, had dropped the de" which implied
his noble descent and had taken to
trade in the city of Paris, with such
success that he was now one of the
richest and most prominent citizens of
the town.
'Tell me, Adele" said he, 'why do
you look troubled?"
'You leave me this evening"
But only to re urn tomorrow"
''And must you really, really go to-
night?'
1T would be as much as my commits
sion is worth to be absent. Why, l am
on duty tomorrow morning outside the
kings bedroom. After chapel time
Major de Brissac viii take my place,
and then / am free once more. But
still that Inc upon your brow. dear
est"
Il was wishing that father would re-
turn"
And why? Are you so lonely, then?"
Her pale face lit up with a quick
smile. Il shall not be lonely until to-
night. Bat l am always uneasy when
he is away. One hears so much now o.
the persecution of our poor brethren"
Tut, my uncle can DEFY them
HE has gone to the provost of the
Mercer guild about this notice of the
quartering of the dragons"
''Ah, you have not tod me of that"
Here it is" She rose and took up a
slip of blue paper with a red seal dan
Cling from it which lay upon the table.
His strong black brows knitted to-
gether as he glanced at it.
Take notice" it ran, that you, The
Ophile Catinat, cloth mercer of the Rue
st. Martin, are hereby required to give
shelter and rations to twenty men of
the Languedoc Blue dragons, under
Captain Dalbert, until such time as
you receive a~further notice [Signedl
De Beaupre. commissioner Of the
king"
De Catinat knew well how this meth
cd of annoying Huguenots had been
practiced all over France but he had
fattered himself that his own position
ut court would have insured his kins-
man from such an outrage. He threw
the paper down with an exclamation
of anger
when do they come"