The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1914-08-21


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! The-ShauEear drew ia his legs aud
leaned toward hts semrter. Monsieur.
II yos are not jestinU. thea yCu are a
nAdrGan. Who are you What do I
know about your / never saW you be-
| fore, and for two seasons have driy-
en- nsademoIselle In Paris. She wears
beautiful jewels tonight. Hew do l
know that you are not q geutlsmanly
thief Ride home with mademoisefle!
You are crazy. Make yourself scarce,
monsieur; In One minute shall call
the police"
"Blockhead!"
English OF this order the Frenchman
perfectly understood. Ia, ial" he
cried. rising 10 execute his threat
Courtlandt was furious. but his fury
WAS directed at himself as much as al
the Trustworthy young man getting
down from the limousine. His eager.
ness had led him to mistake stupidity
for cleyerness. He had gone about the
affair with all the clumslness Of = boy
who was making hts first appearance
at the stage entrance, Il Was nightly
disconcerting. too. 10 have found an
honest man when he was In desperate
need OF a dishonest one, He had faced
With fine courage all sorts OF danger
Qua Mild animals. but at this moment
he hadn't the courage 10 face po-
Iiceman and endeayor TO explain, In
foreign tongue. a situation at once so
delicate and so s!ngularly open to mis-
construction. So, for tho second time
In his life he took to bis heels, or
the first time. more anon He scram'
bled back to his own car, slammed the
door. and told the driver TO drop him
Of the Grand. However he did not re-
turn to the hotel
Mademoiselle da Toscanas chauf.
feur scratched his chin Ia perplexiiy,
In frightening OF his tempter he rec.
ognized that now he would never be
able TO find out who he was He should
have played with him until mademoi.
selle came out. She would have known
instantly That would have been the
time for the police. To hide In the
carl What the devil! Only a mad
man would have offered such a prupo'
sition The man had been either an
American or an Englishman. for all
his accuracy In the tongue. Rah! Per
haps be had heard her sing that night.
and had come away from the Opera,
moonstruck 1t was not an isolated
case The fools were always poster
ing him. but no one had ever offered
so uncommon bribe: 1--WE hundred
francs. Mademolsele might not be-
ileve that part OF the tale. MademoI'
seile was clever There was stand
ing agreement between them that she
would always give him half Of what.
ever was offered him In the way OF
brihes II paid II Was easier to sell
his loyalty To her for two hundred and
fifty francs than to betray her for five
hundred She had Yet TO find him un-
truthful. and tonight he would be as
frank as he had always been.
Hut who was this fellow In the Ba'
verian hat. who patrolled the side
walk? He had been watching him
when the mailman approached For
an hour or more he had walked up
and down. never going twenty feet be-
/ yond the limousine ilo couldn't see
( the face The long DIX coat had a
military cut about the hips and shout
| ders From time to tin he saw him
glance up at the lighted windows, Eth,
well there were other women In the
world besides mademoiselle. several
\ others
| lie had to wait only half an hour for
her appearance He opened the door
and saw 10 II that she MAS comfort
ably seated, then he paused by the
window. touching bis cap. -
., ~ hat II, rran,rfs q" ,". ..'. ,.
"A gentleman offered me Ave hun.
dred francs. mademoiselle. II would
! permit, him 10 hide In the car
Five hundred francs TO hide in
the car Why didn't YOU call the 20.
! licet''
L started 70, mademoiselle, but he
! ran away"
I oh, What was he like" The
. prima donna dropped the bunch OF
roses on tho seat beside her
oh, he looked well enough. He had
( the air Of y gentleman. lie was tall,
with light hair and mustaChe But as
had never seen him before. and as
mademoiselle wore soma Gue Jewels,
hade him be of
would you know him again."
Surely mademoiselie
: THE next time anyone hothers you,
cali the police You have doHe well,
and | shall remember II Home"
The MAN in the Hawaiian hat hur,
ried back 10 the third car from the
+ limousine. and followed al a reason.
ably sate distance
She shut Of the light and closed her
eyes She rrcliued against the cushion
once more sulying Not to think Once,
her hands shut tightly Never, never.
never, she pressed down thp burning
thoughts by recalling the bright
scenes al tho ambassadors. the real
generous applause that had followed
her two SONGS All, how that man
padcrcwski played! They two had