Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-24
HENRPS NICKNAME
Il Was Beie-hoire Because He
Always Did the Most I'M
expected Things.
Nv r. n. LANCASTER.

nese.
"Dey say" Nine. spigolet's voice
lowered. -dey say he's been shoot de
crap
Nine. Lanose swallowed the shock
grimly. Seems like Bete-noire Just
love to do what he ought not"
Nine. Spigolet continued. when
my old man ask him about das. he
laugh and show him dollar. Call II
easy money Ny old man say he
learn dose words down to still. He
say all dose young woods-riders talk
like das. Wish mo das still catch
Ere and burn up"
Nine. Lanese Was a woman or rev
words and no apostrophes-
Dame" she said terseiy. II Bette
noiro going shoot de crap Ike one
negah. he ain't going come see Made
line
~Betenoire." assented Mime. spris-
oiet.
En- bfen. the thought OF Henri al
ways did suggest his nickname His
head was red. bis skin like skinned
milk, his oyes like biis OF brown fire;
but madam. bis mother. had re-
named him before ho was knee high
Such q *ilful little plague he was,
forever doing the most unexpected
ebete.noira."
And the bigger Henri grew the bet
ter the nickname suited him A laugh
tar.loying daredevil. honest and gen
sroua. and Wild az the wind. II Il was
O boat race. the boat he sailed would
win--lf abe did not 20 10 the bottom
II II was \ horse race. the horse he
rode would lead by Il usck--f II did
not break Les. But. yes' betting
was always interesting when Bette
nosre vas IN the running No wonder
the Bayou loved him. no wonder II
shook the aorroHfnl head when he fell
from grace And after that crap
shooting. fall from grace Bete.noirc
did aa fat a. ever angel fell. Even NJ.
Lansse shook tho head.
%Dsa Amt right. shoot crap like
ono negah. No. air. das aiD't right.
be sald 70 bis wife. and Madame La
nose said briefly 70 Madeline. her
daughter. that abe would not speak
with Bete-noire any more.
Madeline made answer. 4 been told
neie.nolre | make marry wit him
when he build house
lyon can, make marry wit boy das
~ IKE enc negaa"
I'm going make marry wit Be,e-
nosss when be gefa house built"
"Ani Daa uha, you t'lnk maybe:
but me. say non. non. noni"
Madeline snld nothing.
Madame Lanaze sought her friend.
Par aadonnei- calculated Madame
spigo.ef. when abe had heard the
story. And Madeline. she say--yesI"
but me. | say non, non. mont"
Madame Laneae felt little proud OF
her volatility. She had never done Il
before
And what she say dent"
Noting Madame relapsed into
hrevity. lust so on peeling 'tatcrs-
Dam fafern,- she declared. rather I'M
fairly. for the potatoes had not been
that way AT all. Madame Spigolet was
concerned with the situation:
MATS ciel. she can't make marry
n you say no"
she make her age In i've years
and den
"Beln, Das long time. Ave years. II
you young. Tell Befenoire he cant
come see Madeline TIL she make her
age"
Salt, fsut Bete noIro. notified that
be should not invade NJ Lanese's front
gallery. ioyfniiy invaded ~ Lanese's
cornneld. where Madeline was pulling
fodder before sun-np. and joyfully took
Madeline into his arms.
Don't you bot'er. Bcbe I'm going
build house for you tout-desuite"
Madeline said Yea contentedly.
She had not doubt but what he
would. Eh. blen, II IL 80 comforting
10 feel that ones lover Ia the biggest
and brayest man on the Bayou
Under pressure OF her faith In him,
Bete-noire resolved TO do what no
other boy On the Bayou had ever
done-go away from home 10 make
his fortune. Ten miles from the Bayou,
he learned. there was factory that
paid three dollars and twenty cents
barrel for shrimp: and that ten bar
rels was a not unusual days catch.
More money in that than in dipping
turpentine for 30 cents barrel. or
burning coal for $40 a kiln. Ha, he
would go TO work for the factory.
When Bete.pcire ran his boat along.
side the factory wharf they told him
he must 60 TO the notary and get a
license. and he went. wondering reck-
iessly what license might be- But
wher he saw the bit OF paper and I'M
derstood That he would have to par
some money for II. he perceived that
Il was much like the "tifitate" old
man Rene allowed whenever he want
ed 70 get out OF working the roads.
Ha' certificate Ia no bad thing to
have' Bete-noire put II In his pocket
and sailed away. HIS dago assistant
sat down IN the bow and said moth
ing. What could he say, unless he