Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-23

sparkling water .hefo Uaa ahafn bend Iu tho stream. and Ha .hog turned t the lnrge s.ltory green slope Of Che lawn lay before them. with ils long wharf and uarees hIng at Che water side. and a ship unloading its return ,arso from England
 'lt .s Che Sea Ladyf called young Hampton. She Is in before us-aud she sailed SO long after"
 He made @ quick movement forward with his pathetic broken step-for this only son of the Hampton family was
 ripple
 There were people gathering on the avn, negroes drawn up iu line. the women in brigbtcolored turbans men
 and women both showing white teeth ls they grinned with Che pleasure and he excitement of watching he ship some in Then a white light figure -au down the broad greeuness. and girl stood golden curls on her shoul- lers, a straw hat with blue ribbons ying down some Of the golden curls. put not all-stood and watched and waved an eager friendly hand
 "lt is my cousin Lucy" Harry Hampton said. and Francois. looking at him, saw his eyes fixed on her in. tently.
 In a few minutes more. leaving the ship with his halting careful step Francois saw him kiss her cousinly- yet it seemed not altogether cousnly --and with that he was saying word about My new friend. the Chevalier . Beaupre,' and the girls quick hand clasp and the warm welcome in her voice of honey made Francois feel as ! if a place in her friendship had been waiting for him always
 Then. from back of her. from some where. lowered suddenly a tall man. with large features, and first seized Harry Hamptons hand and then ] turned Co the stranger with the same air of entire pleasure and hospitality. ] My uephewe friend is welcome at Roanoke house. DO he said, and Francois, with his few words of English, under stood enough to be warmed to the soul at his first contact with southern hos pitalty
 "It is my uncle. Colonel Hampton, DO . Harry's voice was explaining. They would not hear Of his going to CarniiaX-uot for days. not for a month: why should he go at all?- l Colonel Hampton asked. 1T he were to ] be only a year or two in Virginia, why trouble Co set up housekeeping alone ! in that big house, when Roanoke house was here and in order and only too glad to keep him. So Francois for a l week or two stayed And found him self. shortly, a uotability. Harry Hamp- ton. his b0yish ambition for adventure and daring denied every personal out . let. because of that accident in baby hood which had started him in life . hopelessly lame, was as proud of bis l salvage from the Austrian bird of ! prey as if Francois record had been l his own Much more frankly proud for he could talk about it, and did. Alike had told him a great deal and the episode of the headlong rescue of . Prince Louis Napoleon, the capture and Imprisonment and final theatrical escape. went like wild-dre about the countryside, and stirred an the TO. nance of the warm-biooded southern
 ers Every house wanted the hero to
 break bread, and under young Harry z
 proud wing Francois went gladly tC
 meet an these friends of his lrend
 As the general had said years ago
 his simplicity struck the finest note
 of sophisticated high breeding; more
 H ..H H.H.. .#
 people iu more than one country; tho . aristocrate Of Virginia were delighted
 with his young uobleman, as they
 thought him-with his charm of man uer and his stirring history with tho lines of suffering stn in his thin face and the broad lock of gray-the badg.
 of that suherIng-in his dark hair,
 with the quaint foreign accent too, and the unoxpectedness in the turns o'
 his rapidly increasing English.
 And now he had left Roanoke, and was living in the great old house or Pieuos land, the old house which had
 been lived in a hundred years befor,
 piero's father had bought it. the ol,
 house in which grandchildren of Pie
 fro live today.
 Something in his odd broken Eng fish, something in his vivacity and en ergy, something iu the warmth of tho heart which the poor souls lel9 i him-none quicker than negroes t'
 feel a heart-fascinated the slave who fell to his unacCustomed manage ment He had met Henry Clay an'
 the proud aristocrats of Virginia a . men and women, and given them th best of himself; he met these thick
 tipped dim-souled black people u
 otherwise, and gave them the same
 By the crystal truth in him the frs had been vanquished and it happeneI not differently with these other human - beings pieuO's mishandled prOpert grew orderly month by month; Fran cois, in the saddle most of the time , riding from end to end Of the planta ton, found his hands full and his wor interesting, and his health am - strength coming back-though tha was a slower progress.
 The people who do most arc likel to be the people who can do a thin
 more Young Henry Hampton rule out Of the larger part of his natura pleasures by that stern bylaw of ni 70 ture. which had made him lame, al