Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-30

ments and from treading the weedy mar
gins of canal and lake.
''I should not have brought you here,
Lazarre," said my friend.
II had to come, monsieur"
We walked through meadow and park
to the little palaces called Grand and Pc
tit Trianon, where the intimate life of
the last royal family had been lived. 1
looked we'll at their outer guise, but could
not explore them.
The groom held our horses in the street
that leads up to the Place d'Armes, and
as we sauntered back, kicked old leaves
which had fallen autumn after autumn
and banked the path.
1t rushed over me again!
felt my arms go above my head as
they did when 1 sank into the depths Of
recollection.
'Lazarre? Are you in a fit?" The Mar
quis du Plessy seized me.
Il remember! 1 remember! I was
kicking the leaves-I was walking with
my father and mother - somewhere -
and something threatened usl"
1t was in the garden of the Tuileries, -
said the Marquis du Plessy sternly "The
mob threatened you, and you were going
before the National Assembly! l walked
behind 1 was there to help defend the
king"
We stood still until the paroxysmal
rending in my head ceased. Then 1 sat
on the grassy roadside trying to smile
at the marquis. and Struggling an apology
Tor my weakness. The beauty of the
arched trees disappeared, and when next
recognized the world we were moving
SLOWLY toward Paris in a heavy carria 20,
and was smitten with the conviction
thdt my friend had not eaten the din
he 0TnnFnH In fhn frr.
1 felt ashamed of the weakness which
came ike an eclipse. and withdrew leav-
ing me IN my strength. 1t ceased to visit
me within that year and has never
troubled me at all in later days. Yet.
lncohslstently, look back as to ,he
sid"iour OF YOUTH and though it worked
me me hurt and shame, 1 half regret that
II Is gone ''i"
Inc more I saw of the MARQUIS 1u
flessy, the more my slow. tenacious
heart TOOK hold on him. We went ahou,
everywhere together. 1 think II was his
nope TO wed me to his company and 10
Farls' and shove the Mittau venture j,to
an Indefinite future; yet he snared No
pans In obtaining for me NV passnorts
to Courland. P"9SpOi u
AT TINS time, with cautious. half-ra-
Iuetant hand, he raised the veil from a
ni, oI ire which astonished and re-
"a so,,It me l loved woman, The paint
cd
world of sensation had no eject 80,
me. O Siiect upon
A., 1ou are wonderfully fresh. I,azarre -
the marquis said. ''If Won were 80 60 ~ .
9nd 1i male 1 would call you mademoise,Is =
,,,o Iviu ihey never sin in the American back.
Then he took me in his arroz M.
mother. and kissed me. saving I'M m,
eoIi ana sire. I am worse than ,,o.,,
great-grandfather!' '"an your
o,t, et my zest for the gaiety of tho old
2 oity srew as much as he desired Nh
SruIh uome or the Invalides becan,o 49,,
sky "s under a sunny
whenever I went to tha bo,o,
ue Chaumont had chosen near tho rr.,I,
madame de Ferrier raooi,,o5 1Ii m
,.InIny; having always with her NJ
lnoiseIIe de Chaumont or Misc chnat
'ao .S we never had a word in nrivots
tle feeI,nol she might have shown a IN,
- ieeIihs IN her rebuff and nondoraa -.
el point OF view regarding INV 60, -,
lahk. De Chaumont, on the oth.u 80 ],
y mas oeneath her In everything hut aoI.1i
~ HiEnt she regard stoopine IN bir,
MISS Shantry was divided betwaer -,
t ueIerence and Saxon necessit,
oos1S ~ sei me l would not last. I saw sh,
considered me one of the unstarts sn' en-
Empire, singularly favored 49,, VI th'
Drother' but under my flnerv tbs .a,
America. Aho"n In
:, Eagle brought Paul to me. and ha .oa
dled across the floor. looked at me l,,saI1, .Ju
"nn then climbed TO my knee.
Doctor Chantry had been living in ID. -,
life above his dreams of Iuv,,r,, :" Hy,I- Srn
occasionally ! met my secretar,s " I.re liel
ABOUT 10 drive out or he was returnin,
| trom DE Chaumonts hotel Ana th..
caught my poor master reciting noa,,,s
Annabel who laughed and yawned ~,
made faces behind her fan. I am s,rai,
ne arew on the marquis oldest vines
hnding indulgence in the house ga n
sent extravagant bills TO me for a,a,ll n
ana lawn cravats II was fortunate ~
lie Chaumont took him during ,,,, -
sence. He moved his beIonRines u,,t,
| positive rapture. The marquis ana T hati
housht II prudent not TO publish ms
| journey S" IN
Doctor chantry went simpering. an,
abasing himself before the French nohi
with the complete subservience OF a sa,ro,
when Saxon does become subservient
me TOOL Is laughable," said the Mar
| quis du Plessy. Get rid of him. I,azarr,
He is NJ for nothing but hanging uno
someone who will feed him"
lie Is my master" answered. IS
am a fool myself"
you will come back from Mttau cou
WINGED OF that my boy The wise cours
Is. 10 join yourself TO events, and LET ther
draw your chariot. My dislikers saw
have temporized with fate. IL is trlie
am not so righteous as TO smell 10 HEAVIER
But two or three facts have been deepl
| impressed on me. There Is nothing NOR
aggressive than the virtue OF an ugI,
untempted woman; or the determinatio
OF young man TO set every wrong thin
In the world right. He cannot wait, an
take mellow interest In what goes o
around him, but must leap into the rinl
You could live here with me lndehnitel,
while the nation has Bonaparte like fh
measles When the disease has run IL
course We may be able to bring evidene
which will make Il unnecessary for IN
Count OF Provence 70 hasten here tina
France may have a king"
Il want to see my sister, monsieur"
And lose ner ard your own cause FOR
ever"
But he helped me to hire q stron