Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-28

held the flowers outstretched. For
moment she glanced at him with a
sharp, suspicious questioning.
"What does that mean. monsieur"
"What it has always meant"
"Things are to be as they were?'
Eyes"
She bent and kissed him on either
cheek
They had sung the refrain for the
third time. The zouave had collapsed
in corner, and the self-appointed ac-
companist remembered apparently that
he was thirsty. He got up and with
the last tinkle of the piano the singing
died into a mingled hiccuping and
laughter.
Then the girl on the table sprang up
glass in hand. Her face, lifted to the
red light, was diabolically beautiful il
its hooking laughter.
You drunken foolsr' she said shrilly
Behold, | will give you a toast which
you can all drink with good heart
TO the devil who brought us here
hurrahl'
one draft. and her audience answered
with a wild cheer of gratitude. Forget
fulness at all COSTS One young chas-
seur started the latest chanson from
the Partisan boulevards, and the next
instant the mad orgy had begun again.
The girl looked down triumphantly at
the man beside her.
"They are like sheep" she said,
laughing. One can make them follow
any way one wants"
at is not hard to follow such a shep-
herdess," he returned, lifting his hat
with half-mocking, half-admiring def
erence.
And it was then that his eyes
CHANGED to meet the eyes of the legion
airy standing by the piano beneath the
cluster of red lanterns. No sign of
recognition passed between them. Yet
from that moment onward the noisy
crowd vanished. The shouts and
laughter dissolved itself into a swift,
deadly duologue. Richard Nameless
came straight across to the man who
had worn the roses.
Captain Arnaudv he said quietly
"If you say my name again here I
will shoot you down." was the quieter
answer. "What are you doing in that
masquerade? Spying?"
Perhaps. The meeting 1 promised
you has taken place. You can't turn
me out of this company can you, Cap
tain Arnaud?"
81 have told you to leave my name
alone. What do you want?"
81 want to know something-what
are you doing herewith that won
an?"
THAT is my affair"
"And your wife? This is the way t.
the devil"
'The way she has driven me-"
"You are a liar and a coward.
warned you once, and l warn yol
again. 1t would be far better for you
to be dead than that you should dras
her into misery and disgrace. She be
lieved in you"
"Believed?' The hesitancy passe,
from Arnaud's face. He leaned for
ward; his eyes alight and deadly witt
some sudden flash of intention. "Yol
have seen her?"
yes"
"You have spoken with herr"
Eyes"
Armand burst out laughing. H
turned and, catching the Jewess in hi
arms, kissed her savagely. 5000
night-good night This gentleman
sending me home, petite. He doesn'
approve of either of u.s." He laughe
and flung her from him so that sh
stumbled against the table. "That'
my answer, Farquhar," he said coolly
Good night"
Someone touched Farquhar on tn
shoulder. He turned.
"Ah, you, Goetzv
Eyes. Who was that you wer
speaking to just now?"
Captain Arnaud."
"That's to be regretted. Come, W
must be getting off. It's near mic
night"
He slipped his arm through his con
panion's.
At that moment an Arab, who ha
been lettering in the background, hi
dirty burnoose drawn over his fac,
slipped past them and disappeared int
the shadows.
CHAPTER VIII.
At the Villa Bernotto's.
"Look well, though, don't 1, Mis-
q | Smith? White is after ALL the mo.