Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-15

his coat in exactly the caress I had
given to my uncle, the General Rob
ert, and then did depart with an
equal rapidity.
Can you beat him, Bill?" heard
my uncle, the General Robert, de-
mand as 1 closed the door.
Impossible" was the answer 1
thought was returned.
And from that audience chamber
I went quickly and alone in my good
cherry to Twin Oaks, was admitted
by Bonbon, whom l instructed not in
any way TO allow that I be in
terrupted, assembled to my own
apartment and seated myself in a
large chair before the glowing ashes
of a small fire of fragrant chip twigs
which kind Madam Kizzie had had
lighted against what she called a
May chill" during my toilet OF the
morning. Above me from the mantel-
shelf that Grandmamma Carruthers
looked down with her great and no
BILE smile, while the flame in her eyes
seemed to answer that in my soul as
l communed with myself.
What is 1t that YOU will now do,
Roberta, marquise of Gree and
Bye" l asked of myself, with a
slight shaking of my knees in their
CheYIot trousers. 1t Is hardly pos
sible that you will escape from re-
vealing your womans estate TO this
Frenchman OF your own class. Here
all mistakes OF mans estate are
forgiven you and laid TO the fact OF
your being an alien, but that Lieu
tenant Count de Bourbon will ask
questions of you and perhaps has a
knowledge of your relatives and
friends-indeed, must have. Also al
ready that wicked Madam Whitworth
entertains suspicious OF you. What
is il that you will do?"
And after l had asked myself for
a second time that question l sat
and looked into the eyes of that
Grandmamma Carruthers for many
long moments and had an argument
with myself. Then l answered to her
as l rose to my feet so that my eyes
came more nearly on a level with
hers:
NO Madam Ancestress, born Of
her whom not an Indian or tierce
bear could frighten away from her
| duty OF protection TO those of her al
! fecUons, l will not fee. l Will stay
/ here by the side of my uncle, the
General Robert, and my great chief,
| that GouVerneur Faulkner, TO tight
/ for their honor and TO protect France
| from robbery. Then, if L be discover
| ed and can DO no more for them, l
/ will go from their presence quickly
| in the night and be lost In the
| trenches of France before l am de-
! tanned. And, il it be that l am not
I discovered before all is MADE well
! concerning those mules for transpor-
I tation OF food to the soldiers OF
/ France, then l will still go away TO
] the battlefields OF France before II IS
discovered by all who have giTen af-
lection to Robert Carruthers that he
is a-lie. will leave love Tor me and
for France in all of these kind hearts
which will comfort me when l hight
tor the republique or live for her
during long years. l grieve exceed
| ingly, but l go!"
l feel a certainty that if 1 should
continue to be an American man Tor
! all OF the days l may live, to that
| threescore and ten age, l would
never be able TO gain in any way
| even a small portion OF what my
| fine Mr.. Buzz Clendenning calls
| hustle" l went at his side for the
| three days which interviewed between
/ the news of the arrival of that Lieu
! tenant Count de Bourbon and that
| actual arrival in what seemed to me
| to be the pace of a very feet horse
/ or even as the flight of a bird. And
as fast as we went from the arrange
ment OF one detail of entertainment
to another the beautiful Madam
| Whitworth went with us, with her
eyes of the flower blue very bright
Z with a great excitement. l was glad
I that in all matters il was necessary
| that my fine Buzz also consult with
her, and thus 1 was not exposed 70
any of her wickedness alone.
And in my own heart was also a
great excitement, for ii seemed To
me that l was fighting great battle
for France all alone. All day l could
see that that Mr.. Jefferson Whit
worth and the other men of wealth
who with him were seeking to be
robbers to my country were first in
consultation with themselves and
then with my uncle, the General
| Robert, and also the Gouverneur
Faulkner. Would their powerful
wickedness prevail and be able e
force a signing of that paper on the
gouverneur? Was that in their pow
er? l asked myself, and in my igno-
! rance did not know an answer and
had no person to demand one from
There was no ease of heart to me
when the days went by. and was sc
at work with my Buzz that had no
time for words from my GouverneuI
! Faulkner or glance from those eyes
of the dawn star. l could only MUIR
muir TO myself:
viva la France and Harpeth
America!"