The Detroit times., 1908-12-24
CHAPTER /.
The Courtship Of jacques Brschard.

| The Courtship Of jacques Srachard
i'ACQUES BRACHARD. gamin
OF the slums, sweeping the
crossings OF the streets oi
H. Marseilles for q few pennies
raised his eyes. 10 the impe
rious little daughter OF the Marquis
ld'Andeline as he vigorously cleane
the way for her dainty boots, and his
! life began anew.
Anne. Marie, walking grandly ahead
OF her governess, did not sec Jacques,
which was we'll. because BIZ was very
grubby and dirty, and his CLONES
were ragged.
| But there was an expre3Sfon In the
boys face. already old which Anne
Marie was 10 see in later years, anu
had she looked at BIN Then, she might
afterward have remembered the muu
DIV crossing broom in his grimy hands,
his dirty face and his indsCently rag
sed clothes. To the hurt OF her price
| For Anne Marie, whose family was
one Of the four oldest. and one or the
| four proudest, and one .. the four
most useless, families in France, was
one day 70 marry Jacques Bracbard'
the crossing sweeper OF Marsellles.
There fell a vision upon Jacques
Brachard that day, and IL never lelI
his slowly expanding sou unul ne
made IL real He took Il with MIN
when he went to sleep on pile OF
straw ir a rat.infested garrett In the
Thieves Corner. II stirred his dreams
and was With him when he awoke and
he found himself thinking or things
that had never before troubled his
boys mind.
When he was at school. because he
was dirtier and more ragged than any
OF the other boys, they builied ana
reviled him until he turned upon
them with the fear and rage or an
animal at bay I'm his heart and, with
his harder muscles, whipped them
into respect for his strength.
That was a primitive battle, which
had presented no problem TO ms
mind. In his career in the streets
he had brought the cunning or his
class into play TO wrest pennies from
| fortune.
A Man and His Purpose.
Now there stirred in him first the
desire 10 see Anne Marie again, which
was easy 70 do then the longing 10
be with her always, which was dlt-
| fcult: then the resolve 10 overcome
whatever obstacles might lay between
them. And this he did.
| AS long as Anne-Marie remained
| in Marseilles. jacques Brschard saw
( her every day and she never saw
/ him When she went away he gave
Iup sweeping the streets arG went ID
work on the docks, wher" he could
earn more money. lie worked hard
and saved and grew 10 b. master OF
the men ho worked with.
He never stopped thinking. and the
problem that his brain struggled with
/ was how 80 make money.
lie had learned that all tl1uss may
De- bought for gold rank. Title. social
position. even beautiful womau. H.
Was Ina that way only thai he might
win Aune-Marie aud he resolved to
gather gold until he cou.G maze a
gliuering pile OF It beside her even
10 her own height. II tina. should be
the price.
When he reached he stature OF
manhood jacques Braohard was tall
and broad and lean as a winter wolf
with the strength OF a deck labore-
in his long awkward. zoos, ly swing
ing arms ind his wide. musCie-hid
den shoulders.
HIS short brown hair Wa stirf and
untractahlo Ills ewes were like dark.
lv glowing Goals under hes shelving
HUSKY eyebrows lln w. rcstlcee
nor, nus ursoutA bHf 'h- cmbu,H
meut 81 rel,utlc purpos aud poe
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