The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-07

years, mac drought changes, even 10 the liltiS
Roman church. It's name originally Notre Dame
Etoile de la Mer, had been changed when the
Frenchmen had been Joined by other fisher
imen-Irishmen Portuguese and German Catholics
Their, out of the side of the little village toward
the south. colony of cottagers, and
later of italian and French and Spanish villas
Twenty-Five years great changes at
GalIilee; but still the sturdy little church. with its
spire and belfry looked out gravey the
black sea and its white-crested inrong pillows
through the lonely winters and smiled cheerily at
the smart traps and motor cars in summer, as
they whrled by through the village to the station
and then back to the gorgeous villas toward the
south.
Only few changes materially affected Our
Lady Star of the Sea. Once, after schooner had
stranded foul weather the sand-bar directly
off shore and went to pieces the white beach,
the good fishermen of the congregation appro-
priated funds install beacon-ght in the bel
fry under the gold cross. which was lighted and
tended by volunteers when the weather thick.
Again. since the Catholics of the colony
had Joined the congregation and occasionally at
tended services, changes found their way within
toned pews took the place of the old bare wood
benches. The altar draped in red plush,
wrought with gilt Long brass chandeliers with
porcelain candles hung from the hgh-gabled
ceiling Two solid silver reading-amps the
pulpit had been given in memory of young man
who had been drowned in the surf
But the most homogeneous of all to Our Lady
Star of the Sea was the modest little public house
the way. just down the road. thrifty
Jerseyman, who had amassed little money ped
ding vegetables, set it up road house."
There through traffic to support but
the bar conspicuously labeled "Cafe," warranted
the enterprise AS matter of form. there
ten dozen sleepingrooms upstairs, always
scrupuiously clean and always unoccupied, except
ing those used by Croxon himself and his wife and
children. Summer and winter, the poor little
road house looked up respectfully at the church
across the way. and Our Lady Star of the Sea al
ways had smile for her incongruous neighbor.
She smiled the short stretch of her grave
yard with its straight little white tombstones,
many of which told the swift tragedy of the sea.
of the road house occupied, it
usually the genial neghbor church which sent
them, a couple from the fsher-village whom she
had just made and wife, and this was their
honeymoon.
Most prominent among the congrega-
lion of Our Lady Star of the Sea was French
capitalist of the social Gaillard. the banker.
lie had been of the first build a villa at
Gallilee. Fashion had followed him. There he
had lived his proudly successful, prominent Iife
until summer the gods envied him. Then it
that his wife, vivacious French-woman
whom he had brought from seas, off with
nn impressonable freshman himself the head os
family and the owner of villa, next door to the
Eaillards.
The Irenchman had left him single child.
Eugene girl of seventeen, just growing from the
Egiy age into most beautiful early womanhood
Eugene resembled her mother strikingly even now.
She had the same full. solid build-the length Of
limb and breadth of back rare in Frenchwomen;
he same black. rich hair. abundant and coiled
low on the white neck; the Same purity of white
skin, and the gorgeous golden eyes that went
straight to soul and told frankly whether she
soved hated you.
Gaillard adored her the best of his broken
1ife and he guarded her a man does his last
remaining treasure. Towards the rest of the world
he had become hard and bitter. In business he was
merciless and exacting. He went no more into
society. Even for the sake Eugene he could not
bear to go among people with his shame He made
no attempt to learn the fate the wife who had
20 suddenly left him and her child on wicked
August night.
He had once been told that she and HaI,oran
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