New-York tribune., 1909-10-03
Mademoiselle Lucille
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TO the wall I stood. and forced myself 10 look
downward
There IN an excited group stood more than
n-ty men, some gaTbed as wOrkmen and others
wearing soldiers uniforms They paid no at
ttut-un whatever 70 me, but even AS ! looked
--rgeI To the lett with hOarse shouts. Again
that Clamor II whistles, and, answering II ike
unleashed hounds. the men ran N the direction
II the sound. suddenly saw a rustic OF brush
Tar over. and then discovered a man bent low
and m4dly running. He was bareheaded and
10 shirt sleeves and now and then n untrlendIV
bush tore IL HIM as though 10 Tetard his prog
ress Il was Nilalon
In watching his terrific struggle forgot
nay Qer1lous position He bounded this way
and that. does the COTne-eG hare when
hounds ere close. In sympathy ! could feel
ms straInlng lungs and rushing blood. How
hopeless hls effort could see them deEber-
4tely closing IN on HIM from many directions
He was running into the arms of another party
that had emerged from the dense forest INTO q
small glade ! tined 10 shout HIM q warning
forgetting that such a call could not he heard
IL that distance with the noise OF pursuit al
round hlm. Il was over N a moment They
sIrang % meet HIM. He struck furiouslv night
and lett there WAS an understandable swirl OF
human figures twisting and whIrlIng and when
the group dlslntegrated, figure Law suplne on
the ground IN Its midst
Then directly below me | heard fierce
sn4riing shouts Into the open space below
zled leaps and strides. L too was bareheaded
and Il ran stripped itself 10 the waist. II was
Leopard. VINO had descended when ne discovered
the plight OF Eillalon and was running 10 his
rescue
7 SHALL never know how l. frrning with rage
and desperate. made my way back down
the face o- that prtCIplce. ! was not conscious
o.; bleeding hands and toes, II torn clothing Of
short slides peTIl0us falls, and agonIZed scratch
,ugS - the !aCe u the hard and unteelrg cliff.
! tore OF after Lepard, stumbling. falling, and
adding 70 my bruises sVvCre that = they
had kllled NIlalon ! should die taking tol
-OT his lie ] was s0DUlng with gr1ei. anger,
and physical stress when ! burst from the
brush
TIl4lcn was sitting weakly. while man
was binding - handkerchief round wound II
his head Lepard was being led by TWO burlv
men who strained 70 and fro as he struggled.
s r,lan II o-ficer uniform. showing that he was
Major N the United States ar-uv was cau-
-iCnlng them not 10 hurt hrm.
saw that we were defeated and further ~
fort futile. Stop ! commanded. advancing
toward them. LOUIS, were beaten. There
no use 10 fight
Leopard looked al me with bloodshot ewes.
Some of them pad for striking Jean. he COM
rnented and ! discovered that several men
were nursing bruises. To my asronlshment,
however. none showed the slightest trace 0f
anger OF anImositv. Their attitude was that
q admiration rather than enmIty. The officer
came toward me
go You are Captain Dunois Of the French
ar-uv, he asked. and then without waiting for
q reLlv ! am Major Richardson.
d" ] couldn't help but ike nm He was "a tine
officer. ! accepted the hand and admitted my
identity.
..' You have made a brave endeavor the
Major sad smiling. and sorry that we
had % use such force 10 ~ubdue- He mo-
toned his hand toward NiLalon, who was now
beng lifted o. has teet
o.. Captain Eillalon ] said.
go Then this. l take II, is Captain Lepard'' he
said advancing toward Louis and agaIn ex-
tending his hand. You are something OF
fighter Captain he said with utmost good
humor. You strike very hard and fast. I'm
glad % know you
90 They recovered Eilalons coat. but Lep-
ards had been lett hIgh Up On the mountain
ledge Then. escorted by - least a hundred
and fifty men. we were led down past the lake
winch we had worked SO hard 10 gam, out
through the canonIke opening past great
buildings whose smokestacks were belching for
the DAVIS work. across d field whore huge shells
were piled and down q winding road 10 "a small
building surrounded by veranda