The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-24
The Lad Compiled.
Must be very dangerous? ?"

For a few days, perhaps; later,
not at all, when the petites tides are
the rule, and can be depended on.
or two places very well-known, as
safe as your gardens at Versailles.
But remain, arS-you shall see"
Which they did-tinding the place
to their liking-or their hostess; for
the governor, who cared not for
them for reasons of state, left them
as much as might be to his daughter
She, trimming with the ardor and
effervescence OF eighteen years, ac-
cepted these responsibilities gladly;
pending that period she had referred
to, turned the monks great retectory
into ballroom, and then, when the
gales had swept away, proposed the
sands themselves as a scene for di-
version both for her guests and the
people. This, despite the demur OF
his Excellency, her father.
rs it wise" he had asked, Ito court
the attention of the people,
oh I am not afraid, she had
answered. And they are going to
dance, too"
They" He frowned.
Why not? 1t is the queens own
idea. Let the people dance, she has
said, and they will keep out of mis-
chief Besides" with prouder poise
of the bright head why shouldn't
they see, and-like me-"
They like nothing except them
selves, and" dryly, to attempt to
evade their just Obligations
Can you blame them" She made
light gesture. obligations, mon
pere, are so tiresome!"
We'll, well, hastily, have your
own way" Although he spoke rather
shortly, on the whole he was not dis
pleased with his daughter; her be
trothal with the Marquis de Beau
villers, nobleman of large estates
arranged while she was yet a child
promised a brilliant marriage and in
a measure offered to his EXcellency
some compensation for that old and
long-cherished disappointment the
birth of a girl when his ambition had
looked so strongly for an heir to his
name as well as to his estate.
And so my lady and her guests
danced and made merry on the sands
below, and the people came out from
the mainland. or down from the
houses in the town at the base of the
rock, to watch. A varied assemblage
of gauntlooking men and bent, low
proved women, for the most part they
stood sullen and silent: though ex-
changing meaning glances now and
then as if to say: DO you note all
this ostentation-all this glitter and
display? Yes; and some day" Up
on brooding brows, in deep-set eyes,
on furrowed faces question and an
answer seemed to CLEAN and pass.
Endowed with natural optimism and
a yivacity somewhat Needless my
lady appeared unconscious of all this
latent enmity until an unlooked-for
incident, justifying in a measure the
governors demur, broke in upon the
tNbulu6 > lcSllhllito anu NldILutu hCi
attention.
On the beach, lighted by torches,
a dainty minuet was proceeding gaily,
when through the throng OF onlook-
ers, a young man with dark head set
on frame tall and powerful, worked
his way carefully to a point where
he was afforded at least a restricted
view of the animated spectacle. Alb
sorbed each in his or her way in the
scene before them, no one noticed
him, and, with hat drawn over his
brow, and standing in the shadow
of the towering head-dTesses of sew
eral peasant women, he seemed con-
tent to attract as little attention to
| himself as possible. His look, at first
quick and alert, that OF man taking
stock of his surroundings, suddenly
became intent and piercing, as, pass
ing in survey over the lowly spec
tators to the glittering company, it
centered itself on the young mistress
OF festivities.