Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-02-20
garden, across the square, and up the
path to the cliffs.
UNLIMITED, / went with him.
CHAPTER K.
The Town-Crier,

The Town-Crier.
The bell in the unseen chapel ceased
ringing as we came out on the cliffs of
Paradise, where, on the horizon, the
sun hung low, belted with a single
ribbon of violet cloud.
Below the cliffs on a crescent of fiat
sand, from which sluggish, rosy rivu-
lets crawled seaward, a man stood
looking out across the water. And
the mayor stopped and called down to
him; "Ohe, the Lizard! l want some
body to drum and read proclamation
Where's Jacqueline?"
At this instant young girl, a mere
child, appeared on the beach, dragging
sea-rake over the ground behind her
She was 1.-THE creature, bare-limbed
and ragged, with the sea-tan on throat
| and knee. The girl caught sight OF
the mayor and gave him laughing
greeting which he returned with a
shrug.
IF you want a town-crier," she
called up, in a deliciously fresh voice
scarcely tinged with the accent, I'll
cry your edicts and I'll drum for you
tool"
The girl threw her rake into boat
and leaped upon the rocks at the base
of the cliff.
"Jacqueline! Don't come up that
| way!" bawled the mayor, Mortified
Hey! Robert! Ohe!! Lizard! Stor
her or she'll break her neck
Breathless, hot, and laughing, the
girl pulled herself up over the edge oi
the cliff l held out my hand to ai6
her, but she pushed it away. crying
THANK you all the same, but here
am
| The mayor looked at her angrily
but, probably remembering he was a
her mercy, suppressed his wrath ant
held out the telegram. Can you reat
that, my child?"
Yes, l can read it. Why not? Cam
you?"
| Read? l the mayor of Paradise!
repeated the outraged magistrate
What do you mean, lizard of lizards
gorse cat!"
Now if you are going to say sucl
things / won't drum for you," said tn,
child, glancing at me out of her sea
blue eyes and giving shake to he
elf-locks.
| gave her a hand-bill; at the frs
glance her eyes sparkled, the colo
deepened under her coat of amber tan
she caught her breath and read rapid.
to the end.
"Oh, how beautiful she said, softly
"Am to read this in the square?"
Il will give you a franc to read il
Jacqueline."
mo, po-only-oh, do let me com
in and see the heavenly wonders
Would you, monsieur? IL canno
pay-but would-could you let m
come in? / will read your notice, any
way" she added, with quaver in he
voice.
Come whenever you like, Jacque
line," said. ASK for me at the gate
"And who are you, monsieur"
my name is Scarlet"
| Scarlett," she whispered. as thoug
naming a sacred thing.
The mayor, who had toddled som
distance ahead of us, now halted in tn
square, looking back at us through tn
red evening light.
"Jacqueline, the drum is in m
house. I'll lend you pair of sabots
too. Come, hasten little idler!"
We entered the mayors garder
where the flowers were glowing in tn
luster of the setting sun. The mayo
soon reappeared with drum and drum
sticks in one hand and a pair of sabot
} in the other. go, my child" he salt
and Jacqueline marched through tn
garden out into the square by the -four
tain, drum-sticks clutched in on
tanned fist, the scrolls of paper in tn
other.
} In the center of the square she stoo
moment, looking around, then raise
the drum-sticks; there came click,
fash of metal, and the quiet squar
echoed with startling outcrash. A
ready knot of people had gathere
around her; others came swiftly t
, windows and doorsteps; the loungel
J left their stone benches by the rive
the maids of Paradise focked from th
bridge. The drum-roll ceased.
Attention! Men of Finistere! 3
order of the governor of Lorient, a
Z men between the ages of twenty an
forty, otherwise not exempt, are O
/ dered to report at the navy yard ba
) racks, war-port of Lorient, on the 81