The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-17

'HfhS. Oil, MlsS Aanette, when Il hap
py husbands face looks into yours
when you see your own bright beauty
sprinsing up anew at your feet. think
now and then that there is man who
would give his life to keep life you
love beside you!"
II there was any permanent change
In him after that. he kept 1t hidden.
He lived with the same co1npanions.
Avcd the Same helpless, hopeless life.
was content to play jackal TO the more
energetic and shrewder Stryver by pre-
pairing his cases for him and letting
him take the glory of winning them.
and could not resist the Huuor with
which his chief piled him.
II there was any pain within him
when Lucie Manette became engaged
10 Charles Barney. he kept 1t hidden.
Never again. to man or woman, did the
Honorable sydney Carton speak of any
thing that was deep within him. The
nearest he ever came to 1t was after
Lucie and Barney were married, when
he said to Darnay:
IF you could endure to have a fellow
OF such Indifferent reputation coming
and going at odd times, ! should ask
that / might come and go as a privi-
legged person here. doubt if l should
abuse the permission. 1t is hundred
to one If ] should avail myself Of It
four times In year
will you try?" said Darney. hcart-
lily, in reply.
he told his wife that evening of Car
tons request, and said some thing about
MN. not unkindly. mot meaning to bear
hard on him, but as anybody might
who saw Carton as he showed himself.
II fear he is not to be reclaimed, .
il,
that anything in his character or for
tunes il reparable now. But / am sure
! that he is capable of good things gem
tie things. even magma nlmous things"
She laid her head on his breas. and
raised her blue eyes to his. ''Oh, re-
member how strong we are In our hap
pness and how weak he is in his
misery"
The supr!lcation touoaed her nus
band home Il will always remember
II, dear heart" said he IL will re-
member it as long as live!"
Carton did not claim the privilege
oftener than perhaps half u dozen
times in the year. lie sat silent among
them, ms of old hu. nc never came
heated with wine: and when a little
I.licie came. golden haired like her
mother, and learning to chatter com
ically In the tongues of the Two Cities
that held the skeins of their destiny.
II was Carton to whom Of all friends
she held out her arms most gladly.
As she grew up. this feeling OF sym
pGthy grew also. IL WINS as n III.
were returning some of that love that
he had felt for her 'Dotncr .ind t,lt
still with biamcless and unchanged
mind
So passed FIVE years, so happy tha:
they We're almost uneventful. Tho
happenings in the world had conc only
as echoes from afar into the qm;ni
home. But In mid-July, one thous
and asven hundred and eighty-nine
there came now and startling echoes
the echoes OF headlorg. NAL and dan
Geroua feet coming fast
Terrible feet were tnase to fcyca
their way Into anybody's life for they
were feet in blood stained wooden
shoes. tho feet of wretched slaves sud
denly BECOME fearful masters. Isncr-
ance and Want had risen nj Ias. in
France: and the Lords OF the Earth,
who had lifted no finger tn cure It,
deeming that the Lord o. Creation mad
apportiohed, II Divlnely. w,ra .lown ~
The dust. under the feet OF the raging
devil OF mob that they and their noble
ancestors had nodded so assiduousIy.
The burning Bastiie was the beacon