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Sa A Wp ne SEONG AIMEE I SND ORTON Rete a PF yf oe RNS) Pas : € ee edi Cs 2 RE LNT POTN CRAY EET OT ERSTE 14 World D Complete N ‘ach Week in The Evening A Great FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR Romance Bagi” i bah ine, Wednesday: August 19. 19 2 — aily WODQHHHOGDHOHDHHODHIHODOHOHDOHHGOHOHGDHPGHOSG - (aprright, 1807, by Harper & Brothers.) “He may see worse,’ With o furfous cry the Marquis The Marquis stood silent, scarcely A distant movement came to his stood Manstein and Goben, a SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. be ghall we walk around the tore a revolver from his pocket and breathing. ear at the same time, the soft shock ry ir, with menacing eyes. Per- : y pa is New Yorker yoo hae served ge. ” sprang on the Emperor, and “You know who and what I am; footfalla e high- hape they were thinking of the Re@ oo nes visting bie §=They descended the dark steps, her r 2 r a s it Jack seized the crazy you probably know what I have. It and stai Prince’a parting w at the i ae * arm resting lightly on his, and P ; : man by the shoulders and hurled him js enough for mo; it will be enough warned him back Spicheren: Lg OK i én from guided her through a throng of go weak te > { violently to th tor ua both. I shall work to make It ire, and he atood at wey, duty ts to march ae ae keri, Sus oie Resor tae ising cavalrymen and hurrying but (et oats + \ : stunned, ough, 1 do not expect or wish for the foot of the shrine, excited but wary turward, And the enemy, ee ingectgfe crane tar “Bolte offlcera, toward, the western F ALOE Td f quis tay at anything from you for Lorraine; I outwardly cool, ilstening to the his escape and fight him w y tgmard the ‘and Uermany begins, Wing of the chateau, the trample of Vea’ A * i | clenched hands slowly relaxing. do not give it a thought. proaching trample. you find him.” ts 8a ihe frontier, Dromiking Loring the passing army always in their ¢ ef, id Son Gaerne: ba ae Jock does not ys me, but,” and e hak Lg edd 5 Longe 8 a om Outside a Saxon infantry bang be” , ears, . 4 ‘a ‘arcely knowing what he , Jacl ki im le were e dus i ow fue.“ Neturning wets Ther he woseds Seo A he was about to cross the drive 5 eee enone eecvolver from. the spoke grit humility, iT beltove that Pore the tempest, the prophecy of the fan to play a masterpiece of Bee Spider at) 48 8 ‘yoncimabatant shoot” a Agute ‘stepped trom the shadow of 2 extended fingers and laid it on th ‘ye her, will you give fore tne se Pets sound on the dis; thoven. It seemed to be the French are disc Gack all aio te the porte-cochere—a man in & rough t < / ble. ‘Then, with a fearful glane tant highway was the sound of in- for breaking up, and the Red ; ‘Teepe over lier fellow-countrymen's tweed suit, who lifted his wide-awake SiH HH) 2 the Emperor, he dragged the Ma: Tacs fantry, and a host was on the march, with abrupt deference, turned 3 olitely and asked Jack if he was not ‘ quia to the door, opened it with o a host helmeted with steel and me de Morteyn, who gave the =] ngliah. A : shove of his foot and half closed it with steel, a vast live bulk, gigantic, signal and rose. The Prince on + CHAPTER VII. “American,” sald Jack, guardedly, F again. ’ scaled in mail, whose limbs were hu- stepped back as the old vicomte gave (Continued,) The man was apparently much re- i \ The aide-de-camp stood there say to her what you pl nd moan, ‘Clawe were lances and hie wife a trembling arm. lieved. He mad -ank, staring at the prostrate man, he opened thi bayonets, whose red tor were bowed where he stood, clothed in “a Aide-de-Camp. made a frank, manly De! the door and showed Jack from a thousand cannon. tight, blood. r OUR 4: "5 apology for his intrusion, looked ap- . “Here, help me with eas, bie the way out. a ee ‘army, had entered tight, m a Li ms tall, Bp UR days ago,” sald Lor. yt Lorraine and sald, with 1 , \ Sie Se bene could act ike that.” segnoe and the province of Lorraine syed like a wolf, But bis forehes og \ tbo aa ire Meade Sag Po Re i ‘ ; Together they carried him out to Mo: as he rode into the vag a name. fine, broad and benevolent, and Bis » of herself gliding trom the wrong camp. I rode out from the ‘ame! rteyn gate. Tak hydra of three hideous Spicheren and got mixed in the roads, the terrace and down the steps to ® He entered the dining room. It was ee beard softened the wicked curve of : her bed to seek the sta- and first I knew I fell in with Fros- , ® coupe that stood waiting. ompty.. Bo also was. the breakfast needs the German army had pushed lips. a j ble where Jack’s horse sard’s Corps, and I can’t | ; “The Marquis is il," eaid Jack room, for breakfast fgg d ey geeue ‘" nites Jack and Lorraine had again > stood; she thought of her hot face I thought you wore an Englishman gain; “put bim to bed at once. Drive an hour before, Hi Bene ere en ie itked “Wieser: together in the little gilded j vq you're American, it seems, an - above, served rraine’a maid” Droheed to the wounded creature's Youre Ameniotm: Mt mel that there. fe Before the sound of the wheels died bourg and the Spicheren with ‘eo ‘over by the old housekeeper. neck. Then, suddenly aware of wi \ in) mhuddered, coiled 5 y hat hope for me—may I not \ : awny Jack hastened back to the if tongues, sau ann. Be terrified servants scarcely eared she had confessed, she leaned back “Why, yes," sald Jack; “whatever dining room. | Through the In the name of FlUCd over rains. ‘Thet, like some fo breathe as, they erent, ; and coverod bor face with her hands. I can do T'll’ go gladly Opened GOH Ne Peeeteh tee suite find to interest GMaatul raged monster, it cast off halle where “like or disnt ot “Larraine!” he whispered, brokenly. git? iatieuine man ay | re ot on ae Biche? Micky deewala, camee’tonmer 1 Set Som Sal the “Prunian eure tation,” continued the man, smiling @ he se in the came be i eet they Were Already at the under’ his crisp mustache, “that im @ anas eae nacnae ai jamp stil | Ho repeated “absurd” two or three poorer apa en \ta belly. Nirmed to bering to their mistress, but Fe} “Lorraine, my childi" erled Madame Shelter ot even more modest dimene urned dimly. Beside it sat the Kin times, but he became more thought- ilving bodies, with heeds and ree sourage at the calm, dignified * de Morteyn, leaning from tho terr: shelter of even more modest dimen- ©@ peror, hea bA ie ful a moment later, and sat smoking gn4 ‘contracted scales, ot ‘on of the old vicomte, and began te Horjroie an arsuned in the crath 22th hak 'procte tut aon & Beneath lea, trans tea perce aaa pai: amen arate the taialie Sonal ag parte oesteaeS ae attache just at resent, low > mi! “ay of drums rolling, rolling, from the ing tho German irmy. "My name is man—an American, too—should fix oom heer A woes and cities, craving for one orealne. s n below, eo pe ‘Archibald Grahame." CHAPTER IX. her affections onacaptain of Uhlan giritghing across tille and rivers, the chef did his best, ' out in harsh chorus, ebrill, discordant, “(Ps ee the great war oor- \ whose regiment he, Jack Marche, S™\°RrGy.0°CnG was shining with & group of hysterical maids 4 ' a | (Ne had arrived at Mor. Tespondent Jack stared, then im- The Invasion of Lorraine, would avold as he would hope to Shea scales and the oky Teckel with suddenly become keenly alive to thelr RS esa peror had arrived a r= Dulaively eld out his hand. et 'T was not yet dawn when black ee a the smoke of faming tongues. aoe (oan ue possible desirabil- | ae > “Ari jrahame, “you must was France. Befo' . “id V. @ correspondent, too, Ha! I thought Grahame ald goodby to something out on the road by the «¢ td recoiled, leaving the ‘rhe oe marquis himeelf rarer ‘ 4 CHAPTER VIII. 1 was not WrODg.” eraine, who Jack and left Morteyn; but fate attracted his attention, and he Bpicheren @ smoking allt Deters {it bie unwelcome guects as though wa . ‘above james rece! elling ¢ The Marquis Makes Himeel?f returned nis manly salute ' very the eae egal s xenegl ‘Three horsemen sat in their sad- pre ln yet Gravelotte bad whom, now they were under } Agreeable aweetly. “If,” she thought, “Jack is and all— ig since de- dies og the lawn, lance on thigh, eyes not been, und Vionville was & " poof, faultless La ty was “ 0 : Inclined to ‘be nice to this sturdy ©. .ceaqqageeOOOODSOODOSOOSOOOTIOODTOTOOOSOADOOSD PATted. Jack rode ecrons at suntine as wee ful name, slacrous Tey in pothing more merely tae ‘HE Wmperor dined with the young man in tweeds, I also will be DIOOOOO 4 to the Chateau de Nesville, The Mar- They were Unlansl ie ree, ee Aen ee Vicomte and Madame de **,, : “We beat those men at Saarbruck,” Suddenly the door was flung open quis came down the steps ta meet Gaariet sues' 'M; name is Marche—Jack imperiele. Ab, but the steel was in his heart to Z Morteyn that evening In Marcbe," sald Jack, In some treplder "EIA, saveneq good humorediy. toni in'e voice vibrating with pase i CaArrer x: mpeiares eplendid armies the de the hilt. He, an old soldier of tha =| the great dining room. In tion. “i am not & correspondent — eT eae eee aoe enema. sion. As he entered und bowed low — “I expected you,” he sald, without a “Inthe Hollow of Thy Hand,’’ of invasion set in; the Red ¥yince Malakoff, of Algeria, the brother in the Dreaktast room General Fros- that Js, not an active one.” | ciared, the total “German gurrigon to the Emperor he saw the Marquis, trace of anger. tearing o, bloody, Piing west BY obliged to recuive invaderstnvad = sard and his staff were also dinin, bl . consisted of @ battalion of infantry tall, white with anger, his blue eyes to you, Will you come in or shall w been in Oran with Chansy,” sald {nd'a regiment of Ubla M NA . and his whole corps thouwh he had recetved a south, resting ip Nancy, somes Frossard glittering, standing in the centre of Lisw Bibusa thn cree - cul epraadh te pinto the valley o : th e looking the room. He paid no attention to Sit in the arbor there? You will entor? Jack, but tae Emperor raised his im- Then come to the turret, Monsieur passive face, haggard and gray, Marche.” and upstairs, in a small gilded salon, Grahame, quickly, Jack and Lorraine ate soberly, tend- Jack flushed with pleasure to find gorosg at Saarbruck over the rid; erly cared for by the old house. that the great Archibald Grahaine of the Spicheren, and nobody had t keeper. had heard of him. means of knowing what everybody and acknowledged the young man “Xe would have been unfortunate .. We must take Mr. Grahame up- knows now, the reason, #o discredit- respectful salutation. have much to say EF |OR a moment he recoiled as the There they sat, little ails- ofp), tening schapskas rakishly viiiier: iy ese Aman- reurt™ at the crack of the iInt-Privat. Murat's horsemen! . te, dark at once—must we not?—if he able to French organization, which “You have asked mo a question,” not the cour He was not Ml pennone drooping from the lance hills beyond; more regiments, ~ welt the chivalrous soldier, if the Emperor had stopped at the suggested Lorraine. prevented him from blowing out of said the Marquis harshly, “and Ide- pleased at the idea of mounting to points, echabraques edged with yel- Taste, ovine Tr ar be: Mica colonel of the old sates, the Pe Chateau do Nesville,” said Lorrain r heart was touched at his path the fow pickets and patrols, manded to answer it in the presence @ turret with a man whom he had ered the a beau-sabreur of an oy sipping her small glass of Mosoll the thought of a hungry human being. and invading the territory which had ofa witness. Is Your Majesty willing laid violent hands on the night be- low—aye, and tunics also, yellow and could reach; cavalry, too, were riding the Red Prince Frederick They all laughed, and Grabame its frontier only nominally guarded, that this gentleman shall hear my fore, a man whom he blue—those were the colore—thi 1. on the Baint-Avold road through the knew it, and bowed low as wh re ” uct 1@ Col 7 “pape bates him. thanked her with that whimsioal but I was in Suarbruck at the time, and reply?” cumb to an access of insane fury in ore of the Eleventh Uhlens, woods; and, beyond that. vague comte left the dining hall with Ng) “Many Royalists do.” charming courtesy that endeared bim I had the pleasure of dodging shells ‘Tho Emperor looked at him with the presence of the Emperor of ‘Then, for the a tee a illegal pans f iettelwone centle, pale-faced wits on his area, 10 aa Tt is not that only; there 1s some- to all who knew him. there too. Why, we were all asking half-closed inscrutable eyes, the! France. But he went, cursing the . » he ly horsemen, cra’ li e ith throes of a nation ere Bar-le- ae " dice that prevented him from Te#llsed ais position and what it of valleys that stretched to felt by all the world. thing else—sometbing that I don’t “It ls awkward now, isn't it, Mr. each other if it were possible that the turing his heavy face to Jack's, cowar eye Marche? Here I am in France with Frenchmen did not know the weak- smiled wearily and inclined his head. being cautious. might mean. Death was the penalty know about, It concerns my brother Herchel tithe t fo keep away from, ness of the land. Our Uhlans and in- “Good,” sald the Marquls, apparently Mo it di wag born. Have I never spoken of pecting some of these sentinels or to make a battalion look like a bri- thent. “You ask me to give you, oF than my life, which is nothing; I owe ‘0Ush the man he bad shot werenot was ing—had just ” , for the tong Bigmarck, th ‘y Has er eaid poll nts may begin to inquire gade; but we had an army corps in sell you, or loan you my secret for you my family honor: dead—death though he bad not even Could get across now, 0 great o may brother? papa nev police agents may begin to Inquire Front of um We held the place by military’ balloons. My answer 18 This was a new way of looking at hit him. That was not all; it meant Uuirass\ 080s one reser crar the xecutloner, sat with anything take me for hreatened sheer impudence.” "No!" uation; Jack fidgeted in his death in its most awful fo Silt straight into the blaue of the set- fee eae “No,” sald Jack, gently. by the villi a t “I know it,” gald Jack; “it makes The Emperor's faco did not change rm--hang- hill, strats’ ‘waited. tl i “Well, when my brother was alive, wost of Sai Be to pink of it” as la: said, Be roe vere country, tamil: in Paris, That ts all going to get back to my Hohen: “It ought to make Frossard fll! Had "ot for myself. mo! ‘ hay Sed ree ry brother died sollemna t haven't the faintest notion.” & Fronch army of invasion pushed | “And I. will give tt to, my country, 1 Enow, excep! “There'll surely be some way, My op through Saint Johann on t:.e 2d of not to you!” sald the Marquis, Upon German troops, eiving ald to fren’ inp shortly before the empire was Pro- uncie will vouch for you and get you August and marched rapidly into: the lently. = y left that to the Bonapartes.”. French troops while wittin the sphere (od, slow to anger ani claimed, and papa and mamma came -conduct,” said Jack. ‘Per- Interior, the Germans could not pos- Jack looked at the Emperor, He — He rose hastily from his chair and of German influence by aiding, abet- 2°0: ing! For this was the penalty: Any ting sun. from the meadow, an infantry Mets, raise of the Most High about 6 o'clock é albly have concentrated ti attered noticed his unkempt halr brushed for. eld out a hand. Jack took it warily ting, signalling, \..forming or , mercy. last squadron of the rear can to. oug. country-place here, bifety LJ reorient, AIA TY Te ca Rare coetie wank his short thumbs pinching the and returned the nervous pressure. wise was hung sornetioee, wiih a (ee Sel eoldtor® hoarse volCe® tered over the bills weet of Mi was born. Reno's—my brother’s— 4, tlon that Napoleon would have seen table cloth, his closed eyes. Then they both resumed their seats, drumhead court-martial, sometimes antes ts and the last straggling Uhlan a death had something to do with my jarge dining-room and Gen. F the Rhine without having had to The Marquis de Nesville took a step Let us clear 1 .atters Cie @aid the without. “Thea, who te the bellow of Thy Hené—~" lowed after, twirli: 3 father’s hatred of the empire, I know and his wtaff have the breakfast fight a pitched battle. Well, Marcho, toward him. Marquis in a _ wonderfully And at onco the borses jerked their And the deep drums boomed His Every day Lorrain q that. But papa will never spoak of I drink to neither one side nor the “Does Your Majesty remember tho heads, reared and wheeled like cattle praise. pallies fe Oe ee sg ¥ it to me except to tell mo that I must gna 7 tell you what I saw across Other, but—here's to the men with night that Moray lay dying in ed phiegmatic men than shying at a passing train, and away day Jack bad ridden over always remember that the Emperor tne Rhine?” asked Grahame, as he a backbones. Prosit!” shadows? And that horrible ot clear up everything plunging out tnto 'R XI. the Chateau de Neavitle, but the Mare fas been tho curse of the De Nes- “i°saw the machinery at work—t After he had shown Grahame to his from the darkness when he raised each other. You, the road. There was a flutter of pen- CHAPTE: . Quis refused to see him or to listes Biles Hark! Fear tho troops Dass- jitig wheels and cogs turning and Tom Jack went downstairs, where, himself on one elbow and gasped, monsieur, dislike me; pardon—you nants, a filng or two of horses’ heel to any message, nor did be send ’ Ing. “Why do they never cheer thelr gringing and andingéin motion that CRtering the smoking-room, he met ‘Site, look out for Prussia’ Then he disitke me for reasons of your own. a gilmmer of Yollow, and they veols, _The Keepers ofthe House. to ‘Lorraine. : | Emperor?” @tupendous machine that Gnelsenau Ms aunt coming out. died. , That was all—a warning, & I, on the contrary, lke you; I like gone, HH candies were lighted At sundown one day Jack returned, |) groan, the seas Pe xen batter this moment than I ever jhadows by the be en . . Had you not come as I expected, bac fh4 eciperoy never moved: Sed gun bet antec, baa ae ‘ed, the armchair. What should he do? “They cheered him at Baarbruck—I patented and Von Moltke improved— — “Jack,” she sald, * You are not eating; @F@ the great Mobilization Machine! How vous—tho Emperor is am a little ner- till In the din- this machine does its work It is not Ing-room with a crowd of officers, and again the delicate, gilded req Utterly unnerved, Jack sank into | again in the ballroom, and $n! If ho stayed at Mort rom his three-mile walk. y “ Prussia!’ That was ed t lorteyn he stood a ‘4 “alittle, T shail go with Marianne, gusy to realize unloas one has actually he hay just sent an aide-de-camp to aero Olt ep And now? Prussia weuta ate WAR shee Moe + ce geod chance of hanging. “He could nanan were severed yk had seen the Marquis; more, toa, . I think; I am sleepy. Are you BoIng watched its operation. ww it—and the Chateau de Nesville to summon jy there, you are here! And you not leave hie aunt and uncle, now officers, great etalw: ee ae ager had to sit up? Do you think we can sleep what 1 saw left me divid the Marquis. It will be most awkward; yp) aid, and you send for me and I ed and turned tn nis COUld he tell them, for the two old lows with blond hair and blue eyas, cher oar with the noise of the horses passing’ iration and—well—sadnes: your uncle and he are not friendly, t ‘that my secrets are for MY chair, not knowing what to think or PCPle would fall sick with the cuirassiers in white tunics faced with into which many fall to believe that for a Wart Govern!” — daughter, said Lorraine, private Interview with the Marquis “uald Lorraine: the reserve is the rear of the regular Pri‘inay refuse to come, ‘fle is ‘a and park. He had not thought of fitea that before, but now he remembered said Jack, bluntly. The Emperor's slow eyes rested & To his horror the man's ¢; color bearing the number “7” on their shoulder straps, Gragoons of the was. army. The war strength of a regl- (1° ina ; « very, nt on the man before him, But with tears—big, glittering t that “80 another German rule, inflexibl Or rk return in & moment, ane che spe ment Is just double its peace strength, eS ci ad Wee satel a the inan, trembling, — pallid with rolled down his Immovable face. Then behest It was this, that in @ Guard in blue and white. dragoons 4, BR tre Hinge Wad the iy . after Jack acwn thi roe . reeerss and the increment is the reserys, whe wonit te weld oN aay seme erat passion, clenched his nee 08 a eines ue crepe ; the postaina aes ere the inhabitants of the Second Regiment in black and observed Jack at din! that @ and out to the t ane noes blending of the two in time of war is ie " ae A jack, hurled an insult at the Emp ee oe ried the tea peeeieeld © or Injured any Ger- blue, There were hussare too, dandies ning. ‘The Marquis wanted me oulrassier officer in the complete; the medalied men of 1866 = Ja conduct his aunt to her through his set teeth: lack,” he said, calling t! unk jer, the village should be be him on the last touches, yo Beet, ‘his straight sabre shimmering, and of the Holatein campaign, called aber and bade her goodnight. “Napoleon te Little! Listen! fellow by his name with a peculiarly burned and the provisions and stock °f the Wth in their tasselled boots ht 2 > breastplate. the same ranks with the young sol- {'® «durkened house and across the out on foot soon Tho ballroom was brilliantly light- diers who are serving their first period hall to the dining room. Suddenly 7 ed, the gilded canapes and chairs of three years. It is an utter mistake he heard behind him the voice of the ken th i gt vered with officers In every to think of the Prussian army or the Marquis de Nesviljo, cold, sneering, Da® | BhONTD Ce si j conceivable Mallory: ebhanle Prussian reserves as @ militia like tronteal per airy ait ba But r [ , chatting and ges' . “Oh.” he sald, seeing Jack - 7 oh eand yo } fever pulling papers Gnd maps over ine. Prone reserve man has Ing by the Book, rca en ‘es to wave your name and your race ANd Kweay of his arm toward the flasks Lorraine's voice, soul died within me when Rene died, helm’s army, Hussars, bearing even on crash of a rotten throne and a blood- thie thing—from Paris boulevards. I sometimes think ness, he eprang to his feet and wi the skull and crossed thigh bones. r to ye I brood on it too much. That is why to be seen on the road, nor yet in the Regiment, trimmed with white and raine. s ver!" fi nd his aunt's voice the salon, staring at gilded clock 4nd joomed up in the east, al: the floor. A general traced routes 412) °,cary active service with his where T may find the Emperor of your throne mater! Niece lak ae and maohinery piled around. “Lor- por. Sometimes they laughed a little candelabra, or touching the grand gables and single turret of the across the map at his feet with the (ol P.O point back to. Have ours? the French? J am sent for.” Turn- He fairly trot ce al ps pane La girl, sweet, lovable, loyal, in low tones, and he even caught tho piano with hesitating but itching eau grew from the shadows and ‘al | point of a ed sword; an officer The mobilization machine grinds Its ing on the alde-de-camp at his side: spoke; his eyes | fei gb aaa childs ut she is not my daughter.’ rustle of atiff silken embroidery fingers. Here and there officers of the form between the shadows Pe dragoons, squatting on his hn tees this wise, ‘The whole “This gentleman courteously noti- ‘Your coup lig rea Prenat stammeréd Jack against the window-sill, ‘general staff stood in consultation, of the trees. : 4 ghes, followed the movement of Stinding in hie with ot tticts, in fled mo that the Emperor desired my lens! Thad s aon, fiiren tlh Holly ote on Hla mind was made up in an tn- great, atiff, strapping men, faultlessly The grille swung wide open, it ‘ord point and chewed aD UD- tho" era) city of each of which are Presence. I am here, but I do not who les asleep in ‘ th esd Bid 6 youre 1 pod sat up in ind stant; his coolness returned as the clothed in acariet and black, holding the porter was there. " cigarette. the contra arters of the army corps choose to go alone, and I shall de- gentle, loving a son of Tone fo oll a he face of tho pale color returns to a pale cheek. The their spiked helmes carefully under walked on, hasten! Utele, Moers were coming and going Cons recruited from that district, Thence mand, Monseur Marche that you Neaville! Your bribed troops aol. ‘ore him, {niana had probably not eeen himi thelr arme. The pale blue of @ Ba- the low the summer pwently, entefing by tho hallway and [eCule: toil ‘edict for mobilization accompany me and] gegajn during him —shot him to diiee te that ie they had, It made little difference, varian dotted the assembly at rare in- and ed the house. ” 3 leaving through the doorlike windows 4, the towns, the vill ‘and the the interview. vards—hiin among the other r even the ploquet that had chased tervals, some officer from Von Wer- was a light in the turret, but the, * floor. $ > ly in the Tuilertes! that swung open to the 2-7) atishos From tho | The alde-de-camp looked at bim you could elt satel sinister face of a police spy Hone eee ty ie harvest, from the darkly, but the Marquis sneered in 7 saw them those piled corprca! f “can i into the conservatory at intervals toro, grom the school room, black- his face saw little children { where a slender, pale faced boy se units, farmers, clerks, echool-mas- clathed in & cone. bag) ters drop everything at an hour's lent! him could not have recognised him et ders army, attentive, shy, Test of thy house was whole regiment it was not likely huge Saxon officers, beamti rae tte that to your Em. Wing before Tortoni's, where the faco was haggard, his halr dishev- peeped at Morteyn through the road. sour-visaged Brunswick men he opened the door and ole atreot ¥ poded erimsan and gate could have beei t ‘on a carved table. peror.' whole atreet was flooded p 4 Oo part of that gtitf-necked Prussians. dining-roorm was dark. wet / ing ones the Prince Impertal, beck Mice i ot oo. vitiage Iesont — The alde-de-camp, helmet under his the gutters rippled boots, And you? | "No." he said, “Lorraine te not iny same cursed picquety No, the thing In the long dining-room dinner wag extinguished lantern on the J from, Saarbruck and ble Yoaptlem of to headquarters, On the Toute It arm, from which streamed n horsehair Fe ee ee ard when you ees Bho WE Sas tons elaks Cap ee tee ree iene! Fite nearly ended. Pacing each other sat aad lighted a lamp by the window P fire,” back aleo mm meets other contingents until the plume, entered the dining-room as the 6 aE 4 4 3 the old Vicomte and jame de Mor- t ‘Worth. eo was met the barricade you turned pa years ago. would be a matter of simple pru- teyn, hi inte fined, exquisttively “Plerre, tell the Marquis I am here and the disaster of rendesvous is reached, And then— last officer left it. ne te ee ee ae Pend bb . age vOU donee) Gutman ae tact uence * teyn, he pale, dign a an 5 myerne tee mote that UnhaPPY’ the transformation! A yokel ento Jack looked unenslly at the Mar- 0nd rode bac! oi See at neemicen Li, nake your dence: outalde of that he had noth courteous; abe oqually pale but more >tell him I am to return to Mowtepe soldier leaves. The slouch b quis and waa about to speak when from the Tulleries into the trom his shoul his chest. is the alde returned and requested the a of a city already clamorour thrown forward, his lega straightened, Marquis to enter. aiseady eullenly ot plows his chin ‘well, off the stock, a r Marche, remain hore. I pero! : brisk, his carriage military, They are sald the Marquis, coolly; ihe boy's fice was heantity, ve tough as whip cord, sober, docil all call you presently. It is 3 raised his heed en eine Peraps and terribly in earnest. They are o1 © Lask of you. Will you oblige SB reat mine to the retreat of ‘etly, decent, and reputable. Th Be wae suiteore ‘through the fair need | no. sentries, and | none | al ”" wnid Jack. Be Lorpainewa province thet Placed; they get drunk, they The door opened for a mecond, nend never live to seo again, tre not riotous, and the barrack gates Napoleon III. sat at the long table, Pov eevmore, & few batten, © T infested by those hordes of hia head drooping on hia breast; he few Villages in flames, a few olti men. was picking absently at threads in i bes ed, a fow thousand corpses pile and puffed et bis cigar the texture of the table-cloth, That every frontier to the Loire—and was all Jack saw—a gilmpse of a hen, what? Why, an Emperor the “The such aoldiers as the table covered with half empty glasses i wand en Emperor the more, and a World has not yet soen. Marching? and fruit, an old man picking at the 268 and or a provincethat ia, all, 1 #aw them striding steadily forward cloth In the lamplight; then the door “Tis delicate, high-bred face foll; With the thermometer at 86 in the shut and he was alone ip the dark he shaded hie aad eyes with one thin shade, with needle gun, heavy knap- hall, hand and wrote again—all that a ty rounds of ammunition, Out on the terrace he heard the non‘writes toa mother, all that hugo greatcoat, camp kettle, sword, tramp of the cuirassler sentinels, and pomood aoldier writes to a sovereixn, spade, water bottle, haversack and beyond that the uproar of artillery, afi that a good prince writes to an lots of odds and ends damgling about passing, always passing. He stared ress. them, with perhaps a loaf or two about in the darkness, he peered up Soenat ead eyes!" whispered under one arm, Sunstroke? No. the staircase into the gloom. A bat gentle In her sweet dignity. On love her.” - It Bea Jets in the afternoon when @ ighted a pipe and walked out to the road, where tho wmooth mac. Prederick), sue as adam no longer bore the slightest “nuending as much his biack, “mples, trace of wheel or hoof, and nohody prvetan Siced would let him; on the * could have Imagined that part of an Prussian blood would let Hits oan , How long tt was before A I. army corbe iad passed there the ivory ball, pallid, hairless of face, a PIs eyes he could not a frame of iron in'a sombre, wrinkled Dimself lying on the gro Ce ee eee eet nlnte the Pong tunle, without @ single decoration. meadow surrounded by to the shrine of Our Lady of Mor- Hie short ha ose, keen and fine teyn and sat down at her naked ato: y And an he pat there smoking, every breath; hia thin lips rested one inn ne oetingvesy in Ags upon the other im atern, delicate hands, without the least warning a SUrves. ‘horseman, advanoin; noiselessly It was Moltke, the master ex eway'ng, pushing, crowd! Across the turf. passed him, earbipe come from Berlin to watch the wheels the tress, The. firelight on thigh, busby glittering with the turning in that vast complicated net- on @ gilt button here and Silver ekull and crossbones. Before work of machinery which he con- @ sabre-hilt, on polished he could etraighten up another trolled with one fragile finger press- ynd gold-scaled chin-gual horseman pasrod, then another, then ing the button, knot of struggling figures three, then aiz, then a dozen, all sit- re, too, was Von Zastro’ ting (with, poleed carbines, ‘scarcely destined to make his error at Gra’ noticing him at all, the low, biasing lotte; there was Steinme: knees—I saw you-— Are You Going Away for Vacation? pain a When you go out of town for vacation you may find it is diff. cult and costly to provide yourself witb the right sort of reading matter. Why send to the city for novels at $1.28 of $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store? 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PODODDOOFOOTGH HOOE SHVOOGHOGHGOHOHDHHBODHGHGHDDFDOHOG GHD DHDE POHOOHDOSHO ODIO oops oop BDO DVODOODODODOOPDOCODDHDDHSDODOOHDHDOHDOHDHOHBDHHDGODSHTHOHDHI HDHD This Book on the A Farce-Romance of the Big Outdoors; Next Week's Stent et Ie for 6 Contin’ G SOME 4uteWitr’tauphter, Thrilte and Action BY Rex Beach |, compte Nout, bad It the iene it Berlin ie ol rlin 80 i arne to build three monuments oringing, whining “Vive I" 4 Marte, thongs Jack would have refused, but he had tilted over one ear, black-and-white ‘Jack looked across the fields to the = yet now it ‘was that he showed en a yh xs Duc ricourt. 4 i toward the naleur,” sald the Marquis, ab- for what Jack turned again ulse of France, and knew a * who died many years ago, before I 1ooneus, supperiess, and rather ex: fantry were manipulated dexterously laboring under tremendous excite- ruptly, “I owe you a great deal more be ed done—death oven Chateny: ® resiment Of eee oa te. ar eying, Ampamticn woule For two days and nights the Gen civilian, foreigner, franc soldier oe ,,A# he entered the gate, behind him: man army passed through band other unre-ornized combatant firing (reshed out into @ splendid hymn—a gnd Galat-Lye, on the march tows 4 plenteous in ‘At last, on ena ot Ane. ed, from the Chateau de Nes ys ville, bis face faintly touched ah three strata of fighting men ud} you—you who said, ‘It Is @ - “Why do you dislike me? asked 2 rmans came, it J ‘ ‘ aid Jack, “I'll go down and many—the regular army, th Hie Aten, eats ene “for ten tho French, they only need @ War the Marquis, quletiy. night compromise the whole hotise- black, yellow and white, orange and pure jome carly, the Sex ee x we can't slip INt0 ang the Landwer. It is a my doaht Mune. Marea every Now—here ls YOU —“Recause you are not kind to your 20! and bring destruction to chateau white; dragoons in blue and salmon ve Morteyn in the petals ‘for Jack decided to stay where be ‘white mantle open over the silver yp from the reserve, are welded into Then he went softly back through 4.0 you have gone down in the tender gesture, “I loved my son. My CODflscated for the use of King Wil- and crimson busby-crowns: | Black me ascent to-morrow foes,’ ei 4 ay aL carrying a lantern, and moved zs crass of & rolten on when ene country crore on the muddy pavement of the jocked at his own thoughtless fatigue caps the emblems of death— idqjy through the forest, his eyes oh!) ve to my Tam perhaps a little out of my mind; haatily to the terrace, Nothing was An Uhlan or two of the 24 Guard rp rerhead, Wie inden PY td flung myself into this"—with a Meadows beyond. Upstaire he heart piped with ecarlot, dawdled around "Already tho gray wall of the par |. saying s that distance, Then, again, jn 4 litte even when questioned. The reached the porch and loo! | F with black hallway, @ all olee “t want @ witness,” he sald, inso- With bayonets, T saw the hoaped slain up and walked to the window. His that the three horsemen who had good nature, mixed amiably per] pe the chning- Foon Yell . ae an es e by 1i-—-Plerre, do you bh t 4 (Charles "Pierre!" he called aga'n; TIDE at tne ted eee icky in the same instant an Unie forbidding, Dim with his lauce-butt acroes ¥ oe © @ @ ¢ camp-fire flickered near, lightii gray side of the little stone & faloon's beak, quivered with where the balloon was kept. voices, raised in dispute or Ww @ group of shadowy widened out into a aif cirole, ra KY sun glittering on the allver akulle handsome Saxon prince, and great, the air and hung from a tree, Gamge » the it in. be He = trees. fl ity oman