The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-26


Vive le Tsarv Truly. it seems his
heart can only be touched by the sight
of Natachs. And that again has caused
good deal of anxiety to Feodor and
me. 1t has caught us in a useless COM
plcation that We would have liked
to end by the prompt marriage of
Natacha and Boris But Natacha, to
our great surprise, has not wished II
to be so. No. she has not wished it,
saying that there is always time TO
think of her wedding and that she is
in no hurry to leave us. Meantime she
entartains herself with this Michael as
II she did not fear his passion, and
neither has Michael the desperate air
of a man who knows the definite en-
gagement Of Nataoha and Boris. And
my ep-daughter Is not a coquette. No
no. No one can say she is a coquette.
At least, no one had been able to say it
up TO the time that Michael arrived.
Can it be that she is coquette? They
are mysterious. these young girls, very
| mysterious, above all when they have
| that calm and tranquil look that
| Natacha always has; a face, monsieur
as YOU have noticed perhaps, whose
| beauty is rather passive whatever one
says and does, excepting when the
volleys in the streets kill her young
comrades of the schools. Then l have
seen her almost faint, which proves
she has great heart under her tran
gull beauty. Poor Natacha. have seen
her excited as I over the life Of her
| father. My little friend, I have seen
her searching in the middle of the
night, with me, for internal machines
| under the furniture, and then she has
Expressed the opinion that it is nerv-
Gus, childish, unworthy of us to act
like that like timid beasts under the
sofas, and she has left me to search by
myself True. she never quits the
general. She is more reassured and
is reassuring to him, at his side. 1t
has ain excellent moral effect on him,
while l walk about and search like a
beast. And she has become as fatalis-
tic as he, and now she sings verses to
the guza, like Boris, or talks in cor
ners with Michael, which makes the
two enraged each with the other. They
are curious, the young women Of st.
Petersburg and Moscow. very curious,
We were not like that in our time, at
Orel. We did not try to enrage peo-
pie. We would have received box on
the ears If we had"
Natacha came in upon this conversa-
ton, happy, in white voile, fresh and
smiling like girl who had passed an
excellent night. She asked after the
health OF the young man very prettily
and embraced Matrena, in truth as one
embraces a much beloved mother She
complained again Of Matrena's night
watch.
You have not stopped 1t, mamma
you have not stopped It. eh? You are
not going TO be little reasonable al
last? | beg Of you! What has given me
such a mother! Why don't you sleep:
Night is made for sleep. Koupriane has
upset you. All the terrible things are
over in Moscow. There Is no occa-
sion to think of them any more. That
Koupriane makes himself important
with his police agents and obsesses us
all. ! am convinced that the affair OF
. the bouquet was the work Of his po-
. lice"
"Mademoiselle," said Rouletabille, "l
} have just had them all sent away al
of them--because l think very much
the same as you do"
We'll, then, you will be my friends
Monsieur Rouletabille, l promise you
since you have done that Now that ths
police are gone we have nothing NOR,
to fear. Nothing. I tell you. mamma
you can believe me and not weep an,
I more, mamma dear"
Eyes, yes; kiss me. Kiss me again!
3 repeated Matrena, drying her eyes
! when you kiss me I forget every
: thing. You love me like your owl
/ mother. don't you?"
3 Like my mother. Like my owl
Q mother
$ "you have nothing to hide from me
Q tell me. Natacha."
1 Nothing to hide"
"Then why do you make Boris suffe
SO? Why don't You marry hm?'
1 Because l don't wish to leave you
D mamma dear"
She escaped further parley by jump
I ing upon the garden edge away from
: Khor who had just been set free TO
I the day.
9 "The dear child" said Matrena; 9TH
n dear little one she little knows hoy
$ much pain she has caused us withou
d being aware of it. by her ideas, he
e extravagant IDEAS Her father said t
c me one day at Moscow, Matren
7 Petrovna, I'll tell you what ! think
4! Natacha is the victim of the wicke
! books that have turned the brains o
y all these poor rebellious students. Yes
y yes; it would be better for her and 70
- us IL She did not know how to reat
G for there are moments--my word.-
a when she talks very wildly, and l hav
II said to myself more than once tina
with such ideas her place is not in ou
= salon but behind a barricade. All tn
same he added after reflection. L pre-
o fer to find her in the salon where
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