Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-02-27
Observation-Disclosures, On the Hor.

No-no-Monsieuri On the Hcr-
net"
"On the Hornet" repeated Captain
Sazarac quietly.
Raoul stopped with q remembrance
OF Sazarac shadowing his exuberance.
"Ah, yesI I see," he went on slowly.
Nom de Dieul 1t would be the same
for you-the Seraphine following in
the wake Of the Hornet to New Or.
leansl Monsieur Sazarac- All.
Welt" He shrugged heIplessly: 1T
cannot think what to do for Monsieur
Sazaracl"
The girl could not understand. Of
course. Monsieur Sazarac bowed with
some satire.
This phantom-Sazarac How II
haunts your happiness, Monsieur de
Almonasterl Dispel it with a word
A gesture"
The younger man came to him with
gesture, indeed, but Of some humble
grief. II have stood aside. l have
spoken no word Of love to her i.
have held my honor. The look In
her eyes | have seen-that is for you
today, If 1 cannot win it fairlyI"
There" murmured Sazarac. "Seef
She Is looking into the cabin-curious-
lyi Eth. a womani Fascinated by
mystery-this or that ghost. Come,
be the man, Raoull Call the lieuten-
ants guard. am Jean LATTE 7"
"Thls sword Of mine would be at the
throat of any man who breathed that
name upon this ship. That is my
honor still-Sazarac
Come! Name Of the devill The
lieutenant is f1dgeting-he must be
back to report this matter. Why,
what Is the matter with your" growled
Sazarac impatiently. 'Take what Is
in your 'graspl The happiness that Is
in your power-seiZe it, Monsieur
Honor?-bah! Go down in the en-
perors stateroom ask the jest
er! He would roar the truth of us all
to Heaven 1t appears that he has
protected the good name Of Sazarac
long enough, and has tired of it. He
has, in fact, now called on me to be
an honest man. 1t must be Lafitte,
the outlaw, who has the lady's fancy
NOT a chivalrous Sazarac. And the
jester rules, Monsieur-he has come
to command at last!"
Monsieur De Almonaster appeared
not to understand the others laughter
which must conceal so much of pain.
Jarvis must not see her then" he
muttered. There would be no sense
to that I"
Sazarac took the young mans un-
wounded arm and turned him firmly
toward the Hornet lying up in the
wind astern. Come, too, am a
ghost. Sazarac is a ghost-he never
did exist" And then the old somber
look of LATTE, the fugitive, came to
his eyes: 81 tell you, Raoul if we had
not just learned that Bonaparte was
dead, I would have tried-for last
desperate venture of the last man of
my Infamous lotto seize Napoleon.
To be at sea To be under the sky
again on a good shipl At the end
too late-your dream grappled me
Monsieur, you see everything else Is
gone for me-" he added. 81 depart
from the stage Jarvis would tell you
so with his hooking. All, God, l envy
the dead men up there forwardl"
you love her. them" muttered De
Almonaster, shat is plain"
''Too well to have her see me swing
In air at the end. OF course that will
be the end" he said composedly
land she will know l played role for
her merely. 1 could not be Sazarac
more than could John Jarvis"
''You give her up because there Is no
more to do-for Sazarac," returned the
other slowly. "Ah, yes! 1 am sorry,
Monsieur! / am unfair after all, at the
end
And then he suddenly seized the adj
venturers bronzed hands. "See, here
Your life? The Seraphine will save your
lifel l give her to you, Monsieur
The crew of shipwrecked mariners
why, in some obscure port of the In
dies you can refit and be off before you
are identifedp'
The older man put back the iron
gray wisp that had come to his black
hair above the temples. BE Off
| Monsieur ~
CTO BE CONTINUED)