The Washington herald., 1910-07-13
MOVING PICTURES.

cigar out OF doors, and NJ. verney IN
vited Col Duquesne TO come into the
summer house. The colonel, looking in
and seeing Nine. Verney smiling and
bowling. and the Ravenels sitting there.
accepted NJ. Verney's invitation and went
in. Walking up, he spoke CALAMITY to
Nine. verney. and TO Capt. and Nine
RaveneI. quite as If he knew nothing
about that past which had wrecked their
lives. He did more; when Nine. Verney
pressed him 10 accept & cup OF tea, he
sat down at the tea table, and made
himself most agreeable. addressing Capt.
Ravenel without efrusion, but quite as
an old eomrade In arms.
Such a thing neither of the Ravenels
had ever hoped or looked for. and the
Verneys, who were the best-hearted peo-
pie in the world. were delighted at the
success OF their invitation.
Col. Duquesne sat for half an hour and,
at last lighting his cigar, he departed.
AS he went down the street, he shook
ias gray head and said TO himself:
IF I had wife or a daughter. what
a wigging 7 should get when got honerF
The next day, Paul was 10 go back TO
school, and early In the morning he and
Toni had their last interview in the
little Granny on the bridge. It was a
beautiful bright September morning, but
both boys were rather low in spirits. No
boy that ever lived, not even so excellent
one as Paul Verney, goes back TO
school, with a light heart But Paul made
the best OF H. Toni was depressed at the
thought OF being reduced again to the So
ciety OF Hermann as the only person who
could understand and reply 10 his talk;
for although Jacques and the horses
were equally as intelligent as Hermann,
they were not so responsive.
And now, Toni" Paul urged. pray
try and learn TO play the violin or do
something to make living"
Toni shook his head dolefully.
Il don't ike making a living. and be-
sides. II marry Denise, what's the use?
Denise viii take care Of mel know she
viii She and my mother will make
living for me-"
Paul felt perfectly hopeless at this
speech Of Tonrs-there was no doing
anything with him. Paul returned TO
school and Toni went back 10 his n-usic
lessons, but with no better success than
before. He was now quite twelve years
old, and he had become a public scandal
in the town OF BienvilIe. Even old
Marie. who sat by the monument, scolded
him for his idleness. At last Nine. Mar
eel. actuated by the press of public opin-
ion, was forced to put Toni TO work. AS
great favor, Clery, the tailor. took Toni
on trial, with e view 10 making him a
professor OF the sartorial art, Clery's
two sons, aged twelve and fourteen, could
already make. each. respectable pair
Of trousers. and Nine Marcel, tearfully
laying aside her ambitions, implored
Clery 10 make Toni replica OF the Ciery
boys.
Toni was frightened half to death at
the prospect of going into a tailor's shop,
and his mother had literally to drag him
there on the morning when he was TO be
indicted into his new profession. The
shop was small room. where two or
three sewing machines were perpetually
going. There sat Clery and his two boys
at work.
For the first week or two Ton! was
employed in carrying parcels. which he
found onerous enough. He had a way.
however, Of taking an hour 70 do an
errand which ought only to have taken
him ten minutes, and when during that
first week In the tailor's shop he was
intrusted with q pair of Capt. Raveners
We 4. f-0f
pressed and cleaned, it took him fifty
seven minutes to carry them from clesa's
shop to the RavenePs door. which was
exactly four minutes away, CIery said
that would never do.
AS for Toni. these long absences from
the shop meant getting back to his old
haunts and to the things he was not
afraid of-the bridge by the river. and the
sight OF cavalry troop going out for ex-
sre!se, or a conversation with Jacques by
way OF encouragement He had a feel
Ing OF terror when he sat In the shop
With the tailor's eye fixed on him. and
the two boys. industriously sewing away
On the sewing machine, and eyeing him
With contempt. He sat there, this wild
and reckless Toni, who was thought tn |
fear neither God nor man nor beast, the /
most frightened little boy imaginable. He
,ould not have told, to save his life.
what he was afraid Of, but he knew that
re was afraid-so much so that he STAYED
With Clery a whole year. In that time he |
earned absolutely nothing except 10 |
larry parcels. which he knew before.
II il had not been for the re~arS th.4 |
1lery had for Nine. Marcel he would
not have kept Toni a fortnight. AS i'll