Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02
Flower of the Corse
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effort to persuade her to return. 1t was
not in human nature to expect the girl to
endure the Sights that would inevitably
attend her temperance.
At last came letter from Madeleine
herself Its tone was honest, and very
much to the point. She had imagined that
Rupert Fosdyke meant marriage. When
she was disillusioned she spurned him,
and had obtained a situation as nurse,
her country speech and Breton costume
being passports to ready employment.
CINGULARLY enough, during those
~ days no word of love was spoken be-
tween Tollemache and Yvonne,, TIE
mine was laid, and the smallest spark
would fire it; but the spark was not forth
coming, and for the excellent reason that
Lorry wished Mrs. Carmac and her mil
lions far away before he asked Yvonne to
marry him. 1t was Yvonne he wanted,
not Mrs Carmac's money. If once he and
Yvonne We're wed, Mrs. Carmac's am
bilious schemes in behalf of her beautiful
"niece" would go by the board. Circum-
stances had made it impossible that father
and mother should meet, even at their
daughters wedding-and where could
such marriage take place but in Pont
Aven, and who should spread the wedding
feast but Mere Pitou?
So Lorry bided his time; though WON
ne read him like a book, and the knowl-
edge that her mothers continued resi-
dence in the village alone prevented Lorry
from taking her in bearlke grip and tell
ing her that she was the one woman he
had ever loved, or would love, gave active
reinforcement to her anxiety concerning
her father, whose well-being, she was con-
WINGED, depended on the prompt and COM
plete restoration of life to its normal
plane.
Thus, when preparations We're being
made by Mere Pitou for the Revellon chat
cheerful feast which enlivens the mid
night Of Christmas), Yvonne did not hesi-
tate to tell her mother that on that occa-
sion at least they would see little of each
other, and perhaps less in the immediate
future as she was going with her father
to Concarneau.
Mrs. Carmac took the hint gracefully.
AS preliminary she sent Captain Poppe
and Jackson to England; the one to be-
come sort of factotum in her Surrey
house, the other to join the staff in her
Charles street residence.
"Ask your father, as a last concession,
to allow you to travel with me as far as
st. NIalo when | leave on the twenty
sixth, she said. at will be long and
weary journey otherwise"
VVONNE left her mother about four
o'clock. on Christmas Eve. Tolle-
mache was waiting for her, and together
they stroled to the cottage. There was
much to be done, because Mere Pitou ex-
pected a large party. Peridot, though
specially invited, had refused to come
Indeed, his manner was so grutf that
Barbe, who acted as messenger, was
moved to tears while relating the recep-
ton accorded her.
"Tcha" snorted her mother. "Thats
mans way, all over. When woman gives
him the slip he'll sulk and paw the ground
like an angry bull for week or so. Then
he'll drown his sorrows in cognac, and at
the next pardon you'll see him squaring
up to some pretty girl as if the other one
had never existed What about that sar-
dine boat which the American lady prom
Used him? That should widen his mouth
when it reaches the quay"