The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-10-01
CHAPTER xxlv-continusd.

CHAPTER xxiv--continued.
At night as he lay in his bed In HIS
tent, fremont and Hammet Abou
cooled his temples with water from
the earthen bottles, where the sweet
ooze stood out humid and refreshing
on the damp clay. They gave him acid
and cooling drinks. and now and then
sabron would smile on fremont. call
Ing him petit frere." and fremont
heard the words with moisture In his
eyes, remembering what he had said
TO the Marqulse d'Escllgnac about be
Ing sabrons brother. Once or twice
the soldier murmuFed woman's
name, but fremont could not catch Il,
and once he said to the duke;
Sing singl"
The Frenchman obeyed docllely.
hummlng in an agreeable baFytone the
snatches OF song he could remember.
La File do Madame Angot." I'll Trio.
vatore;" running them into more mod
ern opera, la Veuve Joyeuse." But
the lines creased In sabron's forehead
indicated that the singer had not yet
found the music which haunted tho
memory OF the sick man.
"slngl" he would repeat. fixing his
hollow eyes on his companion. and
fremont complied faithfully. Finally,
his own thoughts going back TO early
days. he hummed tunes that he aud a
certain little Girl had sung at their
games In the alleea OF an old chateau
an the valley OF the lndre.
"sonnez les matlnes
Ding --dln--don,"
and other children'a moiodiea
In those nights. on that desolate
way, alone, In travelling tent, at the
side Of man he scarcely knew, Rob
ert do fremont learned serious les.
sons, lilo had been q soldier himself.
but hla life had been an inconseuuent
one. lie had lived az he liked, behind
him always the bitterness OF an early
deception. Hut he had been too young
TO break hts heart at seventeen, He
had lived through much since the day
his father cxlled him 10 Africa
Therese had become u dream. a
memory around which he did not al
Ways let his thoughts llnEer. When
ne had seen her again after her hus.
bands death and found her free. he
was already absorbed In tho worldly
life OF an ambitious young man. lilo
had not known how much no loved her
until in the Villa des nougainvilleas
he had seen and eontraated her with
Julia Redmond,
All the charm for him OF the past
returned. and he realized that. aa
money goes, he was poor sho was
poorer
The difficulties of the marriage made
him all the more secure IN his deter.
mination that nothing should separate
him again from this woman.
by Sabrons bed he hummed his
little Insignificant tuuea, and bis heart
longcd for the woman, when once or
twice on the return Journey they had
been threatened BY the engulanE sand
storm he had prayed not to die before
be could again clasp her Ia his arms,
sweet. tantallziaE. exquisite with
the passion Of young love. there came
TO him the memories OF the moonlight
nights on the terrace OF the old cha
toaa Tie saw her In the pretty girl
ish dresses OF long ago. the mslAn.
eholy droop Of her qulyering mouth.
her bare young arms. and smclied the
fragrance % her hair as he kissed
her So humminE bis soothing melo.
dies 10 the sick man. with his voice
sottened BY his memories. ho soothed
SAFFRON
sabron closed bis eyes, the creases
IN bis forehead disappeared as though
brushed away BY = tender hand. FER.
hAps the sleep vas due to the fact
that. uneonseiously. fremont slipped
into humming q tune which Miss Red
noud had sung In the villa des Bou.
Eainyilleas. and OF whose English
words DE fremont Nas quite ignorant.
WIN he last until Algiers. Hammet
Aboaf"
VIVA, viii be ~ill be. mousleur!-
Abou replied.
-Iie must De fremont answered
nereely lie shall"
lie became serious and medltatlvs