The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-06-04
AROman@ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
TIE MARSHAL
RMary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Ag~@ The Perfect ZZbu7e. etc.
Copyright. The BobhsM.rrm Company.

on the same spur of LIE Rose as the ole
Roman chateau, that pile of tumblec
ruins which Francois loved. The
castle 10 a massive square Of gray stone
with a pointed roof of red tile; fouI
towers flank 1t, two battlemented, two
with spires red tiled. Windows narrow
and high and round, meurtrieres in the
towers, prick the stretch of masonry;
the front facade Is battlemented; a
hedge Of thorns Is feet high reaches a
delicate green arm about it's strength;
half q mile back a stone wall battle
mented, too, defends the place from
attack on the mountain side; the noun
tain rises sharply 500 feet high behind,
A park of beech trees stands stately
about the castle; above it one sees
only the red roofs, and the towers, and
glimpses of gray stone. 1t was like
this in the year of 1900: II Is like this
today.
The Baron-General Gourgaud, taking
possession in the month of July,
thought 1T lucky he had not seen this
domain of his before, else the vision
would have turned his heart from his
duty. After a full career almost IN
b~oyhood-for the Gross Of the Legion
OF honor had come to him at Platter
service In the Spanish and Austrian
campaigns and diplomatic missions;
after saving the emperor's life at
Moscow: after Waterloo, Napoleon had
chosen him as n of three officers to
go with him to ST. Helena. The
chateau n estate Of Vicques had been
given to him by the emperor after thai
brave and lucky momen at Moscow
When, the first man to enter the Krern-
lin, he had snatched the match from a
mass OF gunpowder which would a mo-
ment later have blown up both officers
and emperor. But, what with battles
ana GlDl0nN 10Y " + with 2or 80 c.
Helena and the years In England after,
ne had not till this summer of 1920
seen his property. Now, at once his
heart went OF to 1t, and he loved it as
naturally, as whole-heartedIy as IL 1t
had come to him through a line of an
cestors. The splendid, gray. old pile, the
wide green fields, the little village nest
ling to its castle-an this seemed to the
soldier OF fortune not a strange new
luxury but like coming to his own.
Ten years before he had married;
four years after that his wife had died,
ana he daughter she had left was now
a girl or seven, a fairy type Of girl,
alrliy and daintily made, quickfooted
ana ~qu1ck-witted; unexpected, too, Ike
a fairy, and with a brave and obstinate
spirit which gratified her soldier father
every day.
You are perfect In every way but
one, Alike he said, as he swung her
high to kiss her. You are"
I know" the girl interrupted, COM
rade-like. Il know the fault + have. I
not a boy. But I do not wish to be
a ooy, father. I would then grow to be
great fierce person with e mustacheo
and the two laughed together Men are
more like the brutes, like the horses or
tigers or lions-like you, father. 1t is
only Women who are really people
dumode."
Indeed" General Courtyard re-
ceived the statement with his heavy
brows in a tremendous frown, and his
cleaning with pride in the defi-
ance. is it SO, my daughter? I am
to have some one who Is really
q person to save me from being a
brute altogether. But all the same
you grand lady and person, you can not
down the name of Gourgaud. You
Will fly Off some day to a brute with a
and leave your father alone
In this big chateau, is 1t not?'' He
her answer, but he liked to hear
lie.
u shall never MARI anybody"
Alike announced. II can not ever love
any n like my father"
In spite of the satisfaction which
this speech gave him, 1t was a sadness
to the r that no g%randchild of
Of his name would live in this chateau
which he q SO soon loved SO much.
40 luougnt OF II many lines and the
more keenly he felt the joy of his life
he more keenly he felt this missing
thread in its pattern. Yet it seemed a
.disloyalty to Alike when the memory
Of he little pleasant boy with the
large dark eyes came to him as he
old stories to his daughter in the
The story of the battle of
it was tonight, and how he
le had gone down into that glorious
itCf1P and EWa Tn1a al nv tho 10 551- --xxI
he French troops under fire.
Alixe's blue y e flashed and her
lands clutched his coat lapeIshshei
the tale. Yet into the mind of
iaspard Gourgaud shot the idea that
t he were telling 1t to a boy of his. he
night dream how hat boy would
march away some day and do such a
with a memory of his father in
Ills soul Yet no boy could ever have
SO dear to him as this girl.
gentle and spirited, elusive, caressing.
always in the world.