Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-03

dressed me In my FIRST Partisan hnery,
let us In and waited upon us with food
! sent him out to buy. He gave me a
letter from my friend which he had held
Go deliver on my return in case any ac-
cident befell the Marquis. He was trem-
ulous III his mourning. and all his ardent
care OF me was service rendered to the
dead
sat in the garden with the letter
spread upon the table where we had
dined. Its brevity was gay. The writer
would have gone under the knife with
kind Of counsel. We had touched We
might touch again u was as " soul
sailed by waving its hat.
MY Dear Boy:
81 wanted you. but It was best you
should not stay and behold the depravity
OF your elders. II is about woman.
May you come to a better throne than
the unsteady one of France.
Your friend and servant,
Etienne du Plessy
Garlic is the spice OF life. my boy"
For no sooner was ! on the street than
a sense of being Enthusiastically watched
grew upon me. ] scarcely caught any
body in the act. A succession of vanish
ing people passed me from one to an
other A working man in his blouse eyed
me: and disappeared. In the afternoon
II was a soldier who turned up near my
elbow, and i'm the evening he was sue
ceeded by an equally interesting old
woman. | might not have remembered
these people with dlstrust IL Skenedonk
had not told me he was trailed by chang
ing figures. and he thought it was time
TO get behind trees.
Bellenger might have returned to Paris,
and set Napoleon's spies on the least be-
friended Bourbon of all; or the police
upon a man escaped from Ste. Pelagie
after choking a sacristan.
The Indian and | were not skilled in
DISCUSSES as our watchers were. Our
safety lay i'm getting out of Paris. Skene-
donk undertook to stow our belongings
in the postchaise at the last minute. I
went to DE Chaumonts hotel to bring
the money from Doctor Chantry and to
take leave WITHOUT appearing to do so.
Mademoisele de Chaumont seized me as
[ entered Her carriage stood in the
court. Miss Chantry was waiting in u
while Annabel's maid fastened her glove.
20 Lazarre!" the poppet cried, her
heartiness going through me like wine.
Are you back? And how you are
changed They must have abused you
in Russia. We heard you went to Rus
sia But since dear Marquis du Plessy
died we never hear the truth about any
thing"
I acknowledged that I had been to Rus
| sia.
"why did you go there? Tell your dear
est AnnabeL She won't tell"
ITO see a lady"
| Annabel shook her fretwork Of misty
hair.
That's treason to me Is she beauti,
| ful?"
! Very"
"Kind?"
| Perfectly
well, you're not BY the way why
/ I'M l,a Ia
and kind?'
II didn't say she was beautiful anC
kind for me. did I?'
mo. of course not. She has Tilted you
the wretch. Your dearest Annabel will
console you"' She clasped my arm will
both hands Madame de Ferrier
husband Is alive!"
What consolation is there in that?"
"A great deal for me. She has he
estates back, and he was only hidin
until she got them"'
MAY ! enter?" said the humblest q
voices outside the door
We heard shuffling step.
Annabel-made face and clenched he
hands The sprite was so harmless
laughed at her mischief. She brought (
Doctor Chantry as she had brought ms
} Chatterlng with every breath, Annab'
entrained us both to the court, my poo
master hobbling after her victom, an
staring at me with hatred when l trie
to get word in undertone.
l put Annabel into the coach and Mis-
} Chantry made frigid room for me.
Hasten yourself, Bazarre," said Made
moiselle de Chaumont.
| | looked back at the poor man, VIII
/ was being. played with, and she erie
out, laughing
"Dld you go to Russia a Partisan I
come back a bear?'
entered her coach, Intending TO tab
my leave as soon as | had seen CouT
de Chaumont Annabel chartered all th
way about civil marriage, and directe
Miss Chantry to wait for us while "
went I'm to the Mayor. I was, perhap
too indifferent to the trick. The usual
sharp governess, undecided and plqueC
, sat still
The count was not I'm the Mayors ofic
civil marriage was going forward. an
a strange bridal party looked at u.s.
Now. Lazarre," the strategist confidet
'"Your dearest Annabel is going to cove
herself with Parisan disgrace. Yo
don't know how maddenlng II is TO hay
every step dogged by woman VIII
never was, never could have been
and manifestly never will be--younl
Wasn't that a divine fash about III
corbellle and the mayor? Miss Chantr
! will wait outside half a day. As sat
sne viii pe urea OF SllllnB IN the cdfrlaB
J This Is what you must do; smuggle n
out another way; call another carriag
and take me for drive and wicke
dinner 1 don't care what the cor
I sequences are, II you don'tl"
| said | certainly didn't. and that
was ready TO throw myself In the Seir
II that would amuse her; and she con
mended my improvement in manners. "
, had drive, with a sympathetic coacl
man; and a wicked dinner in a subur
which would have been quite harmless G
; American ground. The child was as fu
of spirits as she had been the night 81
mounted the cabin chimney. But
D realized that more Of my gold pieces we
slipping away, and l had not seen Doct'
I | Chantry.
r I'VE were going to the mayors" 81
( maintained when reproached, IN
Y father would have JOINED US n he hs
: heen there, He would certainly ha,
! Joined us II he had seen me alone vii