The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-01-23
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olcr, ana conrinueu, aIuer HIS own
fashion, to collect the details of the
affair.
The searching process should have
! led him almost at once to his daugh-
ter-a puzzling figure in the maze of
events; but the Governor had exhib-
tied no haste in approaching that i'm
portant witness. Only when he had
/ marshaled his other testimony and put
it in order did the scope of his sitting
/ extend to the girl. And then had his
! manner been strictly judicial; main
tanning an imperturbable mask, he
professed not to notice the pallor of
| her face, the unnatural brightness of
/ her glance.
when you sent for the mountebank
| to come to your apartments, did you
know who he was?" the Governor
/ asked
mo"
when did you find out?"
; When you entered the room"
"Why did you not give the alarm
them"
Because" she hesitated; her face
changed, ''he would have killed you,
l think-if had!"
WAS that solicitude for me the
only reason?"
"Why, what other could there be-"
| What other, truly? And after he
; left with the commandant-why did
you not, then, inform me?"
you remember you had something
important, from the King, to consider"
hastily.
More important than this?"
He was going TO be locked up"
was the best reply she could make.
And in the morning set free!"
She did not answer.
/ "And yet, you gave the word that
enabled us to capture him at the
wheel-house! How, by the way, came
| you therein the wheel-house?"
! 81 saw him from the abbot's bridge;
heard him tell the Waterman he had
message to deliver at your palace, and
/ followed"
Again feeling solicitude for me?"
/ Il did not know-he would dare
/ much; and what does it matter now?"
almost wildly. you have captured
him, shut him up somewhere in some
/ terrible, deep dungeon, where"
He is safe? True; that is the main
consideration"
/ Thereafter had the subject of the
Black Seigneur been dropped between
/ them; the pilgrimage over, the Mount
/ resumed its normal aspect, but only
for a little while! One day about a
week later, bright cortege whose ap-
/ pearance was in marked contrast to
that Of the beggarly multitude, late
visitors to the rock, came riding down
/ through the forest to the sea; at the
verge Of the sands, stopped for first
distant impression of the rock.
Noble monument, l salute you!"
Smiling, debonair, the Marquis de
Beauvilliers removed his hat.
And the noble mistress thereof"
suggested one of his train.
"She, of counsel" he said, still sur
veying scene different from that final
memory he had carried away with him.
Then had the rock reared itself in all
the glamour Of sunny day; now was
the sky overcast, while through sui
/ len mist the Mount loomed like a
shadow itself.
"A cold place for our gay Elise!"
One or two who viewed the sight for
the first time looked disappointed;
even the Marquis appeared for the in
slant more sober; but Immediately re-
gained his lively demeanor.
wait until you have seen it at its
best" he retorted carelessly, and set
the pace across the sands
Midway, where once on the sands
the men of Brittany had engaged in
fierce conflict the ancient abbot's
forces, were the newcomers met by an