The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-14

tall. sabis-robsd. snowy-veilsa woman stood before her,
 Lucy snows neither tisa nor ahrlelk- ed The shape stood mute. IL had no face, no features. Ali below her brow was masked with white cloth but there were eyesg and they viewed her
 Miss Sno9e desperately stretched forth q hand. The figure receded. She followed. It receded stili. A mass of shrubs suddenly hii it. Miss Sn0we darted around the obstacle and saw nothing. She waited for q moment and gasped: If you have any errand to me, come back and deliver it." Nothing spoke or reappeared.
 If she had any doubt as to the reality of the vision it was dispeIled soon af- terward when Professor Paul told her that he, too, had seen something in the old garden.
 His confidence came after Mme. Beck had told her a atrangS story. Tn youth Professor Paul had loved q young girl. Justine Marie. the daughter of rich parents at Q time when his own pros- poets were excellent. unfortunaseiy, his father failed suddenly and dIed, | leaving behind him nothing except debts The girls relatives thereupon | forbade her marriage, her grandmoth- | CT, Mme Walraven, being especially violent and malignant. The mIid Marie too good to be false. but too weak to withstand her family. withdrew to q convent and died there,
 Lasting anguish took possession of M. Paul. and the truth of that love and grief was shown in a manner that I touched Miss Snowe deeply. Some years after Justine Marie's death her l family became involved in ruin, too Her father died of shame. for infamy was added to his financial distress. | When he died he left his wife and | Mme. Walraven to begRary. but the most true-hearted lover of their daugh- | ter came to the rescue. He devoted three -fourths of his income to their support, and while he himself dwelled
 in one small room without servant. | they who once had turned him away
 with scorn lived in handsome house
 provided by him.
 'By this arrangement" they told Miss gnowe "be has rendered it iTn- | possible to himself to marry. He has given himself to God and to his angel bride as if he were a priest"
 Miss snowe was quick to sec the yelled allusion. To Mime. Beck's sleep less eye and velvet footsteu no secret was unattainahle. Lucy realized that they had told her the tale for a pur- pose, and with a little study she saw the purpose. Mime. Beck was not dis | pOSCQ uuIdkONADiH AbI1CAL tO 0A EhuAl that was one reason. The other was
 that the family whom he was support ling were the Madame's close relatives and nobody chose to lose the useful in-
 come for the benefit of plain English | teacher. -.
 Lucy snowe, with quick resolution. told Professor Paul what she had learned about him. It was in the dark alley. at dusk. He was silent for a | saaA hA thing comes and goes here at night. Do you think that a saint in heaven perturbs herself with rivalrles of the earth? Surely no good woman. much
 less a pure. hsppy spirit would trou- ble amity like oSrs"
 He stopped and looked suddenly at the pear tree. The branches and leaves
 wore shaking, though there was no breeze and the feathery shrubs stood still as death. Something more solid
 than the night blackensd among the foliage. It separated from the tree an apparition all black and white. With A sort of angry rush, close. close past their faces, swept the very nun herself! l She seemed to make an angry gesture. | As she vanished in the night the wind
 rose sobbing, the rain poured cold and
 wild. The whole night seemed to feel | her.
 1 few days afterward Madame Beck
 announced in the classes that the Pro- lessor of Literature would not appear again. He was going on long voy- age, she said. at a very sudden and urgent summons. Lucy Snowe heard great murmur. followed by a few
 sobs. She did not look up. Time
 seemed to stand still around her. She
 heard the words "Guadaioupe" and
 ''business of a friend" Still she sat
 stunned
 That stunned feeling persisted next
 day and the next. She became con
 scious that she was waiting, with the tension of 6 sick person awaiting tho