The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
<fAA ADAME," he commenced. "It Is
impossible TO work with you.
WHY In the world have you

Why In the world have you
wept not two feet from your step-daugh-
ter's door? You and your Koupriane,
you to make me regret the
Faubourg Poissoniere, you know. Your
step-daughter has certainly heard you.
1t is lucky that she attaches no Importance
at all to your nocturnal phantasmagorias,
and that she has been used to them a long
time. She has more sense than You, Ma
demoiselle Natacha has. She sleeps, or at
least she pretends to sleep, which leaves
everybody IN peace. What reply will you
give her IL it happens that she asks you
the reason today for your marching and
counter-marching up and down the sitting
room and complains that you kept her
from sleepingY"
Matrena only shook her old. old head.
mo, no, she has not heard me. / was
there Hike a shadow, like a shadow Of my
self. She will never hear me. No one hears
a shadow"
Roufetabille felt returning pity for her
and spoke more gently.
I'm that case, ii Is necessary, you must
understand, that she could attach no more
Importance to what you have done tonight
than to the things she knows of your do
ing other nights. 1t is not the first time.
is it, that you have wandered In the sit
ting-roomf You understand me? And to-
morrow, madame, embrace her as you al
ways have"
mo. not that she moaned. "Never that
] could not"
"Why noty'
Matrena did not reply. She wept. He
took her In his arms like a child consoling
Its mother.
Don't cry. Don't cry. All is not lost.
Someone did leave the villa this morning"
'Oh, little domovoi! How is that? How
Is that? How did you find that out?"
"Sfnce we didn't find anything inside. 1t
was certainly necessary to find something
outside"
And you have found itT
Certainly"
The Virgin protect your
"she Is with us. She VIII not desert us.
will even say that I believe she has a
special guardianship over the Isles. She
watches over them from evening to morn
Ing"
what are you ~saying?'
Certainly. You don't know what We
call in France the watchers OF the Vfr-
ginT"
little beasts of the good God spin between
the trees and that. :"
EXACTLY. You understand me and you
will understand further when you know
that In the garden the first thing that
struck me across the face as ! went into
IL was these watchers ok TIC FHBiH spun
by the dear little spiders Of the good God.
Al first VIII IN / felt them on my face ]
said TO myself. Hold on. no one has passed
this way and SO / went to search other
places. The webs stopped me everywhere
In the garden. But, outside the garden,
they kept out Of the way and let me pass
undisturbed down a pathway which led tc
the Neva. SO then l said to myself, Now
has the Virgin by accident overlooked hel
work in this pathway? Surely not. Some
one has ruined it, I found the shreds OF
them hanging to the bushes, and so
reached the river"
"And you threw yourself into the river
nv dear angel. You swim like a little
god"
and landed where the other landed
Yes. there were the reeds all freshly
broken. And l slipped in among thu
bushes"
Where tor
"Up to the villa Krestowsky, madame
where they both i've"
al 1t was from there someone came"
There was a silence between them,
She questioned:
"Borfs?"
Someone who came from the villa ant
who returned there. Boris or Michael, OF
another. They went and returned through