Year: 1873

Meanwhile the blushing cheek and bright
eyes of the fair one seemed to betoken
that she was we'll pleased with her COM
panion, whose air was more conceited
than ever.


"I am afraid we shall have storm, !"
she remarked, pointing toward a dark
cloud upon which the captain of the boat
was gazing anXiously.


eve may, but do not be alarmed, mad
anne"


With an air of nonchalance he pulled a
red cigar-case from his pocket and asked
his companion if she objected to a smoke.
Then he started, and quickly returning
the red one to his pocket, pulled forth an
other of blue color.


"How many cigars do you smoke a
day ?'' inquired the lady, evidently anus
ed at the sight of two cases.


The other colored, and it struck me
that his voice slightly faltered and his
hand trembled, as he made some laugh
ing reply.


Soon the storm came pouncing down
upon US. We were midway in the chan
mel, so that we caught the full force of the
sea and gale. Both were terrific.


The sea swept the boat, which lay so far
over that her machinery was soon dam
aged so that it would not work. The
wind, screaming like demon, threw her
over still further.


Suddenly we observed the sailors en-
deavoring to loosen long-boat on the
davits at the stern. Meanwhile, there was
an ominous grinding, smashing noise un-
der the counter. The truth could not be
concealed; we were sinking.


The ladies screamed, the handsome pas
L 4
hither and thither


The cool behavior of the little lady in
black contrasted strangely with the agi-
tated demeanor of those around her.


There she stood calm and immovable,
her bright steel-blue eyes fixed upon the
handsome stranger, of whom she did not
lose sight for q moment.


"Keep quiet ladies and gentlemen"
rang out the Captain-"Keep quiet, and
don't crowd around the boat so! There
will be room in it for you all, and besides
there is schooner coming to our assist
ance," pointing to vessel bowling towards
us before the wind.


There was, however, panic among those
addressed Themoment the boat was low
cred, into it they all bundled, anon gthem
the handsome passenger.


A huge sea coming along, roaring like
thunder, parted the tackles, tearing the
boat from the steamer before the lady in
black or [ could enter it. The handsome
passenger, losing his balance, fell over the
gunwale, and being unable TO swim, wild
ly threw up his arms.


| must ackn0 Wedge that I was so en-
crossed with the perilous situation of my
fair companion and myself-now the only
two left aboard the steamer-that 1 paid
little attention to the drowning man.


The steamer was, in fact, going down
fast,-was already nearly engulfed in the
stormy waves, her heated and halfsub-
merged boilers kissing as the steam came
gushing out like the spout of whale.


was advancing to throw an arm around
the little lady, fearing to see her washed
away, when, quietly motioning me back
with one hand, she seized coil of rope
and threw the end to the handsome pas
senger. He caught it, when, turning to
me, the lady requested me to help haul
the man aboard. | complied, marveling
at the love and devotion thus shown by a
woman to an acquaintance of an hour.


His power over the female sex must be
great, [ thought. He is cOnceited butn
without reason.


The idea flashed clearly across my mind
in spite of my danger. The schooner,
however was very near, and | had every
reason to believe that we should be picked
up.


was right. We were all taken aboard
the schooner, the handsome passenger
among the rest. Then the lady in black
pulled forth revolver, pointing it at the
head Of him whom she had rescued.


''Out with that red cigar-case !" she said,
sternlV "I would like to see what Mon
sieur carries in it."


"Why-why," stammered the stranger;
"what is"


Before he could say another word, the
little Amazon thrust her disengaged hand
in his pocket, pulled forth the red cigar
case, and opening it, ring dropped to the
deck. L#s .At-


The ring she picked up, and holding it
up before us all, exclaimed


7"I have it at last. The jeweler assured
me it was the only one of the device in
Paris-a chariot wheel! This person
is the murderer of the Countess de Mar
villem


The handsome passenger stood as if
frozen to the deck, making no resistance
as the lady in black slipped pair of
handouts over his wrists.


"By what right" he then stammered,
ado YOU"


He paused as the other threw off her
dress and false hair, revealing the person
of slender man with delicate girlish fea-
lures.


"I am Jean Mosqueau, the detectiver'
he quietly remarked, "and robbed the
sea of this man that the scaffold might
not be cheated"


There is little more to add. The main
hov oh fol Of 0fc
ON the prisoners trial were brought forth,
showing him guilty beyond doubt.


Long before his execution his name was
ascertained to be Louis Rosseneau, noted
adventurer and gambler, who, however,
by cool effrontery and a winning address,
backed by his good looks, had been en-
abled to move among the first circles of
Partisan society.


A curious case of suicide occurred in
the New Hampshire State Prison at Con-
cord, recently. The man had been SEN
fenced for comparatively short time
only, but in order to escape work he re-
sorted to various means for making him.
self sick. 1t was found that he had sever
al times been seen to take handfuls of
sand, which had fallen to the floor from
sand-paper wheel, and swallowed it. The
result was fatal Had it not been for his
sickness he would have been at liberty to
leave the prison at the expiration of his
term before his death.


The most notable person present at
the laying of the cornerstone of the new
Michigan Capitol, at Lansing, was Orange
Risdon. He is the oldest settler of Wash
tenaw County, assisted at the cornerstone