The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-01-10

! daughter In America, singed with
| powder, and with bloodstalns on hei
dainty feet, danced to the music OF
her own improvised gayety. Drace saw
the carpetbag governor driving through
the street, surrounded by an escort OF
black and mulatto cavalry. From q
balcony came gunshot. and an enor'
nous negro In white gloves, sitting
beside his political master, tumbIed
out upon the ground but the carriage
did not halt In its speed, and the hoofs
Of the cavalry beat upon the murdered
wretch. In a doorway an old man sat
fiddllng for his grandchildren to dance
on the fagstones.
"Oh, you'll find drama enough here
that hasn't been rehearsed." said
Shottie as they turned toward the old
st. Charles.
'They appear to have set the stage
for u.s." BRACE answered him, wonder
ing If ever again he should find the
girl with the torch Of roses.
In connecting rooms and amidst the
luxury OF old French furnishings they
we're quartered.
Leaving Drace writing letter, Shot
tie went out, but he soon returned with
more Of light than usually beamed
from the sad stretch of his counte-
nance.
well, SIR" he cried with astonish-
Ing enthusiasm, 81 wan 20 tell you
that life is not composed entirely OF
ingratitude. Last year when / was
down here I saw an old fellow about
TO get into trouble with q Mexican
roustabout on the levee. I wasn't in
any particular hurry. 80 I stopped,
took up piece of scantling and
knocked the Mexican Gown. 1t was no
particular trouble on my part, but the
old man took ii as favor and urged
me to eat dinner with him. which l
did. being broke at the time. Now
what does he do? met him out there,
and he gives me two tickets for the
French ball at the st. Louis tonight"
"All right; we'll take 1t In"
Il should say we will Why, there's
likely ~ De lldl1 QOLtl QuCiS al
ranged for. We can see them burst
ing into bloom. But you'll have to
liven up, you know. You are just
trife stern, II strikes me. There is
too much of-of your mission showing
In your face ! don't know of any
thing better calculated to correct 1t
than an hour at the roulette wheel.
Suppose we 60 over and give II a
whirl."
"Hope springs Internal in the human
breast" Drace naraphrased the poet.
'Just as well c1rb yourself. old fell
ow. I'm not going to feed your pas
SION"
A tap at the door and Colonel Josh
himself from the outside.
invited to enter. he came in with
,veeping bow, his beard and mustache
vaxed. his hair darkened with dye,
living to 1t a tinge of blue. He bore,
md with ceremonfous hesitancy. an
invitation from Miss Lucy. She WAS
It the delightful old home Of n rela.
i've where choice guests would as
emhle that evening to hear Prof. l..
sannock Pettigrew read paper on /
he origin and character of the an
lent Scythians-
"Im very sorry. Colonel" Drace |
heerfully lied "but we have another I
nga cement"
The Colonel gleefully replied that /
e was put into position of deep re-
ret. lie knew that Captain Drace
is paper would not take mp more than
hree hours of the evening. He would
npart to Miss Lucy that Captain
BRACE found II Impossible to come. The
'aptain assured him that such was
he true situation and Frightening, the
'olonel gladdened himself out OF the
pom.
The ballroom which Drace entered
nat night was as fantastic as 4 gyp-
VS. vision. II seemed that all civiliza-
on had lifted the lids of its worm
lten chests to array in whimsic re-
Under of It's former self. There was
rident poverty making itself neat IN
ID linen. and war victims proud in
lreadbare coats. In rags there is his
Try. but no ancestry attached to cloth
esh from the min. No unfriendly
re was supposed TO look upon this
no antagouistic politics per-
tilted to view It. The walls were
-aped In the colors of France, and
lshrined in a corner was a Confed
ate banner. its staff splintered, its
Ids darkened with sacred blood.
AS Shottle no longer held the hope
raising speculative table-stake, he
mt himself to the less interesting life
the dance. But not without mis-
ID. The floor was smooth with wax
ON the ends of marTiage-altar cam
es: and Liberty's feet, more accus-
med TO the rough mating. and
gged carpets If the gambling-room.
w from under him. Catching right
d left In his fall he came down with
bit Of lace in one hand and comb
the other, while women slIrieked
the devastations he had wrought.
ouping about the severest sufferer