The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-05-29

oA StaJe, a man WnOm she naQ seen at
court n admired for his handsome
face and magnificent presence. That
should DE suspected was nothing,
the fact that a government spy had
tempered with her letters was moth
Ing, but the thought that De Sartines
had done this thing in person filled her
with UGH a fury that for a moment
h power of thought was destroyed.
Placide stood watching her, afraid
TO move, afraid to speak. hen he saw
n color returning to her cheeks; her
eyes. expressionless and fixed a mo-
ment ago, became bright. he hard
look passed from her face, and the
handkerchief which she had plucked
from her breast, and which she had
peen twisting in her hands, fell on
h parauet Of the IGOR unheeded.
Placide coughed, but she did not
a him; she seemed plunged in
thought of an exciting nature; her
lips moved. Then, suddenly, h looked
up.
"Ah, you are there-good. Go to
Rosine and tell her she need not go
on with the packing Of my things. 1
shaI not Leave Paris just at present.
90 70 Vaudrin and countermand the
horses / have ordered for my carriage.
Then come back to me at once"
But, madame?'
IAN arrangements have beer made
" yooA JUL liSy. w men. luen, VIII
madame leave?"
Madame Linden laughed.
4 VIII cave when l have settled
my account with Monsieur de Sarti-
neS."
oh, mon Dieu," said Placide.
When l have brought him on his
knees; when 1 have made him cry
for pardon, and pay for his infamy:
BEFORE
The old servant, who knew Paris
SO Well and the power of De Sar-
tlnes. was about to make some remark
when she cut him short and waved
him from the room.
GO. | wish for no more words on
the matter. When you have executed
my orders return to me-"
He left the room, and as he closed
the door her eyes fell on the clock
on the mantel; it Indicated 25 minutes
past 8. The remembrance of De Lus-
sac. panlshed from her mind for a
moment, returned only to increase her
desperation Had he, too, played her
raise? Her mind. logical enough in
me a1rairs of the head, was of that
imaginative order which becomes fav-
erlsh and illogical in affairs of the
neaft. Fol a moment she almost hated
the man she loved. His failure to keen
ms appolntnen seemed to her a di-
lect corollary of the insult offered to
nsr oy DE Sartines. All, these Paris
lans, We're they all, then, the same
.f1atterers, false gentlemen, mobiles on
the outside, lackeys at heart?
Even as she asked herself the o,,es-
.ion the doorbell sounded, Rosine's
voice came from below, another yoice
aho then a step or the stairs. ---,
n Knock came at the door of the
it opened and disclosed no
Lussac. Is
he was pale, exhausted, disheveled
ana covered with dust; he carried his
n ha. IN Il hand, a riding whip ia
saiyaa 49, ana as he stood before her.
seized with a momentary vertigo he
9lopped the whip and cllng to he
uoor ior support In a she had
selzeo him, and. supporting him led
-! . inc Iauteuii, where he sat down.
> Iolhllg, he said. Il am late,
nothing" ~ Is
Mon Dieu!" she cried, "nothing-to
pG u inns state? Do not move or speak
tlll l come back"
she ran from the room and returned
on a tray.
When did you eat last?"
lhls morning, no-last night
~ lnls morning, no-last niehtp
why, that is the answer of a woman.
ana you are a man, and a mar without
1000 rs useless as a child. You are a
80 1900 W., lIot d WOTQ TIL Won have
nnlshed what is on this tray
n held it while he ate, watching
the color coming back into his face
and the life into his eyes.
And now" said she, you may speak.
table-so." 'N0
She placed it upon the table. and
drawing a chair beside him, sat while
he told his story. He told all that we
know: How he had met the chief of
the Society of the Midi; how he had
Journeyed to Versailles to abstract the
De Sartines document from the house
OF his kins1nan, the Due de Richelieu:
how the dog had foiled him, and how.
on awakening hat morning, he had felt
such despair at the business in hand
that the impulse came on him to throw
himself upon his sword.
However, said he, Il reuer,bered
that what l was doing was not for nv
SELF
'And why" said she, i~nterruptine
him, why should you not have done
just the Same for yourself? Ma fol, in
dealing with these rogues the yilest
weapons are justifable, and it is only
by such weapons we can meet them
Here are men who are starving the
poor to feed their own pockets, mer
who ernbastile their enemies. and leave
them to rot in prison; men who enter
a woman's house and search her pa
pers, read her letters; men withou,
mercy, without heart, without con-
science. These men must be met with
! their w weapons, as / hope to prove
to Monsieur de Sartines before he is
very much older. But go on, my poor
TREND; you are a poet, a man of kind
ly heart, a gentleman of the old knight
ly school; you do not understand these
tricksters in the least. Go on, and tel
me what happened then"
Il had decided" went on De Lussac
that nothing could be done while
Monsieur de Richelieu was in the house
| did not. see him the whole morning;
he was engaged, it seems, with his sec.
rotary in his own apartments. But Al
de1euner he appeared, and you may
imagine my relief on hearing him order
his carriage to be got in readiness i'm
mediately after the meal to take hin
to the Due de Choiseul's. He was very
gay, and SO filled with his own affair.
that he did not notice my nervousness:
or want of appetite, and when she hat
departed | went to the library, telling
the servants not to disturb me, as
had some important work to do.
1T was after O'Clock: the house wa,