The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-03-25

climate much more invigor-
ating and far less rainy than the
climate OF st. Pierre, had met Gas
pard yesterday evening after having
parted with him in the forenoon and
the inspiration came to him to invite
his new-found friend to Grande Anse.i
They had driven over and Gaspard
was to return to-day.
Marie recognized the two figures in
itAntly. She caught her breath-"lt
q he!"
Almost as she sighted them the two
mon began to turn their steps from
the sea edge. and the first thing that
struck their eyes was the gcm-like
figure on the little cliff outlined
against the burning blue of the sky.
NJ. Seguin. despite his sixty years.
was US keen-sighted as his companion.
lie recognized the girl Instantly: he
had spoken to her often. The pref
|. test porteuse In Martinique had no
greater ad' 'rer than NJ. Seguin.
He raised mis- stick by way of salu-
tation and she on the cliff raised her
hand.
at Is Marie of Morne Rouge. La
Petite Marie" said the old man las II
0aspard did not know. 1.-The prettiest
porteuse In the island and the best
girl-but tenez, / will show her to
YOU
Presently they met her face TO face.
"Ah. Marie" cried the old man.
"petite Marie-see. have got a friend
with me. see. what do you think OF
him, hey, Marie? He Is the snake
killer, the man who does not fear the
fer de lance. he saved "a man yester-
day from the fer de lance. yes, and
mat man was Paul Seguin. Me.
Yes. one does not forget that"
The girl was standing, as the old
man chartered on. looking up under
her arched eyebrows in a most charm
ing way. half evasively. with half
smile; che had met Gdspard with il
glance OF recognition and now she
stood like this. scarcely looking at
him, yet still looking at him. scarcely
seeming to hear the old man. yet
hearing him, smiling at his words.
yet seeming TO smile through the
veil Of some mysterious thought.
CasDard, fascinated. looked AZ her:
she seemed a being elusive. scarcely
real; as though she had slipped
through some crystal doorway In the
air to stand In the blue porch In the
sunlight for moment. Hair enid,
half woman. half spirit, half human
Observation-Disclosures as dream,
"oh. thou art pretty-thou art
sweet"
He recalled her words spoken to
the heur d'amour
YES" went on the old man, "one
does not forget that-a live fer de
lance with death on the tip OF It's
tongue and he killed II with ms
naked hand-give him thy hand.
Marie, for the love OF Paul Seguin'
who knew thy father when he was
prosperous and before he fell mo
the hands Of that fer dc lance, Pierre
SAEesse."
Che came forward like child ana
placed her little hand in the broad
palm of Gaspard Since the day be
fore when she had thanked him with
a Glance for the flower. she had been
filling his thoughts. From the first
moment when he met her in the littie
Place de In Fontaine. she had peeh
filling his thoughts: he was direct IN
love as in hate. man without any
of the false refinement OF society, mn
L he was a man and now, as ne held
! her hand in his, for the first time IN
his life he felt aba shed, timorous rs
IA woman, awkward as "A boy
He had spoken To her bravery
1ough on the Place du Fort when he
lad given her the flower. but now u
las different. The touch of her hhnu
hs glance of her eyes, filled MN WIN
Infusion.
She, on the other hand. was calm
/and confident. and had some observer
bsAn present, more kecn-o!od than
M Soguin TO the delicaCi"s OF expires
sion he would have read IN hef race
something OF triumph
His confusion told her all, told h"l
that she had been in his thoughts
told her of his attitude of mind TO-
ward her. II was homage withou
words.
|. When he released her hand NJ Sc
gain took him by the arm ana they
n turned from the sea, Marie walking
III with them in the direction OF NJ, Sc
gums house.
II was "A low. frame building, Tho
hest house in the town, set rounc
with a garden where the tamarind'
and the tree ferns all had bend TO-
ward the west as though warped bN
4 the externally blowing tradewind.
| sAnd you are going back To -
Pierre, Marie" asked the old mar
! when they reached the gate.
II "Oui, missile"
N "Walking all the way?'
u .Oui. Missile"
sWeil, good luck to the" and II SAT-
suarney: an, that had thy youth an'
Exength"---
He was turning 10 the gat" wheI
paspard. with n half glance AT ~
Sri. said: -, too, am returning t
II. Pierre: would mademoiselle oh
ct to my walking with her on tn
had; 1t IL a lonely road
"You" sand the old man, befor
81 yarie could speak, Mon Dicu. d'
u 6u think that you could keep NJ