The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-02-01

eit1u Cummings cleerIully, returning
| to the discussion OF his bass. "The old
villain will take precious good care
| you don't come near her."
MI. Vanrevel already possessed 4
| profound conviction to the same effect
Robert Melhac Carewe was known
not only as the wealthlest citizen of
Rouen, but also as fits heartiest and
most steadfast hater; and, although
there We're only 5000 or 5000 inhabit-
| ants, neither was q small distinction,
| for Rouen was ranked in those easy
days as wealthy town, even as it was
called an old town, proud of it's age
and it's riches and bitter in it's politics,
of course. The French had built fort
| there soon after La Sales last voyage
and, as Crailey Gray said, had settled
the place, and had then been settled
themselves by the pioneer militia. Aft
| er the Revolution Carolinians and Vir-
| glnians had come by way of Tennes-
see and Kentucky, While the adventur-
| GUS countrymen from Connecticut,
travelling thither to sell, remained to
buy-and then sell--when the country
was i'll its teens. In course of time the
little trading post of the northwest ter
rltory had grown to be the leading cen
ter of elegance and culture in the Ohio
valley-at least they said so in Rouen.
Robert Carewe was Rouen's magnate,
commercially and socially and, until
all upstart young lawyer named Van
revel struck into his power with a
| broadaX, politically. The wharfs were
Carewe's; the warehouses that stood by
the river and the line of packets which
piled upon it We're his. Half the town
was his, and in Rouen this meant that
he was possessed Of the middle justice,
the high and the low. His mother was
| Frenchwoman, and in those days,
when to go abroad was a ponderous
and venturesome undertaking, the fact
that he had spent most of his youth in
the French capital wrought certain
glamour about him, for to the Ameri-
can Paris was Europe and it lay SHIN
mering on the far horizon of every
imagination, 4 golden city.
MI Carewe lived in an old fashioned
house Oh the broad, quiet, shady street
which bore his name. There was a
wide lawn in front, shadowy under
| elm and locust trees and bounded by
thick strawberries. A long garden, fair
with roses and hollyhocks, lay outside
the library windows-an old time gar
den, with fine gravel paths and green
arbors, droWsed over in summer time
by the bees, while overhead the locust
rasped his rusty cadences the livelOng
day. and faraway sounding love note
from the high branches brought to
mind the line, like an old refrain:
The voice of the turtle was heard in the
Between the garden and the carriage
gates there was fountain where 4
bronze boy with the dropsy (but not
mlnding it, lived in Il perpetual bath
from green goblet held over his head.
Near by Il stone sundial cleaned
against clump Of lilac bushes. and it
was upon this spot that the white kit
ten introduced Thomas Vanreyel to
| Miss Carewe
Upon the morning after her arrival.
having finished her pianoforte practice,
touched her harp twice and arpeggioed
| the Spanish Fandango' on her guitar,
Miss Betty read two paragraphs of
"Gllbert' fOr she was profoundly de-
termincd to pursue her tasks with dill
| igence), but, the open windows dis
closing world all sunshine and green
leaves, she threw the book aside with
good conscience and danced out to
the garden. There, coming upon
fuzzy white ball rolling into itself
splrally Oh Il lazy pathway, she pounc-
Ell at it. Whcrcupon the thing uncurled
| with lightning swiftness and fed.
| more like streak than a kitten, down
| the drive, through the open gates and
into the street, Miss Betty in full cry.
Across the way there Glanced to be
strolling young lady in blue, ac-
| companied by Il gentleman whose lei
surely gait gave no indication Of the
maneuvering he had done to hasten
| their walk into its present direction.
He was apparently thirty or thirty-one,
| tall, very straight, dark, smooth shaved,
his eyes keen, deep set and thoughtful,
cravat and careful collar were evidence
Of an elaboration Of toilet somewhat
| unusual in Rouen for the morning.
Also he was carrying pair Of white
! gloves in his hand and dangled slen-
der ebony cane from his wrist, The
flying kitten headed toward the couple
when, with a celebrity only to be ac-
counted for on the theory that his eye
had been fixed on the Carewe gateway
for some time previous to this sudden
apparition, the gentleman leaped in
front of the fugitive
The kitten attempted dodge to pass;
the gentleman was there before it, The
kitten tented; the gentleman was al
together too much OH the spot. Imme-
diately, and just as Miss Carewe, flush
| ed and glowing, ran into the street, the
small animal doubled, eyaded Miss Bet
| tvs frantic clutch, re-entered the gate
way and attempted a disappearance