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1'ncle Marw.BM Broadest eat in hie
bi,e arm chair on one side of the lofty
doorway that led into the hall from the
veranda, nod Taut* swung herself softly
to and Iry in her low rocker on the
ether.
Uncle Iraroellw was a Virginia Bran -
THE HURON SIGNAL. FRI1)&Y, JULY 15, 1887.
sus Ifs. whew distant chits
•Wader and desk against t of e t
great yellow moon slowly into
sem•
0t eilYt•�1 les remarked M'1larito le
his pat raMb
ted acquieed cad Moreno
French that (.yells seemed to gra
Tams pret-
tier every day. Tae nodded a pleased
anent.
New, truly, t •ale MaMemel*hau'never
se all his kgs loved agog worms but
Tante. Her eyes, which remained the
we large suit and shitting weasel light
that had lured hie: into the Theses*
h hat
d'Orleans fifty years ago (thougshapelessnessform had broadened to shapelessness
W' r1
►ad imbibed but do•atoatstio, not I oontaiaiog Captain Terrier's rriacellaiee- "I dust kuuw what it 'awns," replied "It's all • '
waisue ieta s& 'ems weuttttteot of shoos, and cheap Moils hotly, "sod 1 thunk it is perfectly more dead titan 1 $
wish �a °pt b1• ern s u. here added
"Mow mind, CeaiUs,,, he added, woolens, candles, candies, spina, solidi- disgusting." t'o y
with a midden return to hits ordinary class and stationery. On the uWas sided It wee hard .noun;, to bear penman penuto Tante, weer weld net help it.
barrels > emeltioem earl the •tugged tommeent however, Mt she had peeled* US .r-
ti end air? tuts•, "1 hero my aoawer,
ttr*e t bene we are still Mester
-*Wm, of course." she WOWWOWsur-
prised, and it most be admitted, seerstly
intended ▪ little ended bf Will seedy .eq�
nees-
coe is bar dsaiion, lid eM` balled
pleaded his mit with pwmienite warm*
• alter each deal and empbalb se, he
had gum off declaring gaily that be
would return tgauic
—od again ---and
n
again, until be should at last bare con-
quered. Ah well, he had wae--and
J0 a Bran -
In the dashing and gallant d•y • moustache and a pronounced muthe •hadod her had at last learned wsdum, so much the was brainy engaged attending to the as Irnndueg, sir or wren miles down sending toward the excited grout'. And
• r Itp , had been the only eyes in better for him. 8be thought as she Set wants of old Itetty-Rose, one of the St. 1 the river, and Octave has gone with it, then—
ad hie early rwuh.00d he had adventure PPe t begged hits A limp, black clad hum lay helpless
ed—with a gigantic black budy•aervst ' the a heir w..rld tic Ain. Yet some- on the steps to the moonlight and listen- Deny's nannies. Sir : 1 c,mmande,l, I evert begg 11
how, as M I"Al
king at Cecile, with ed to his hvht chat, now in one tongue, When Cecile and her cousins entered, I le come home, but he .wore he would 1 and s•bbiug in his arms !
at his elbow and the proceeds of an un- her tender blue eyes and her row -tinted now in another, with Uncle Marcellus he was reaching up to ono of the highest 1 out And who is going to ker.; my ac- Tenni.* fine tact was proverbial. Hot
sod Tante Tante reeking softly to and %helve* for a piece of red ealicu, and e ouots 514 kook after the place," wailed on this occaaiun no tact was needed to
eereep all the spectators, black and
white, into the house or behind d. Even
the wide-eyed, copper colored ptskaoin-
ay twins. Joseph -Mario •u►d *weenie,
au mined iu honor of the twin cans of
the house, scuttled silently after their
anther and disappeared without even se
much as a backward glance. 'Si, that
by the tine Octave had half -led, half -
carried Cecile to the tench under the
ed °wain. Lour. tied Jeanne, bat• bad'. twguulia, and thrown himself on his
gage and biome. "Fur a whole '•Yes,". Ittr�td, with easy grass,- 1 knees before her, huddle¢ her hands to
s' did' she said to herself fiercely ;why, ,
Cecilia !" they cried in the midst of the answer to Leuree s amazed questioning, 1 indeed, should she be h.td responsible ,his, the row garden over which the lint
joyous clatter that welcomed them "1 have taken Michel Bora' place. How for the (u .iuh escapades of Octave Gas- r long level rays .d the merniong sun
"And oh, du hurry up with the rose- many yards did you say, Aunt Betty- tea : Perhaps, after al:—and hen a were begiuuiug to •treteh,wasas Bull and
little chilly sensation crept over her a • Fur rte : This for me ! Oh, my
linen of • pretty plutnp girl in a blue
deer, icy dery "' he cried, with a s•b in
calico gown arose unbidden to her mind
and she remembered with a start, the' his v.oicr, lilting afold of her bl. 1.
smile in Octave's eyes when he looked , `revs and Basing it reve"rently.
down on that fair freckled face ' At "(ah, I thuu¢ht--she began anti
this point, like many another heroine be ; K"pyeu choked wath tear*
fore her, she sat down on the wive of -i lgut imagiae1 trf� M�e,"_b� maul pre_
tomer ane
WM* raogwa buses ants
buckets, wash.betittgtds, a piueteb or two, • Minta ti/d rn� Mariam : � the I Med hie initial remark t "tis beat esu
aisend hand bawd Mwieseitiabiue, sad Mowing m .ace of Leer. eel Jeaasie. blows up, bet Mies was not heft by
ether nondescript articles, Over -►sad, Bet ie the eve..ing when Mr Joseph Ma- the.$ploeioe, or L hm dive in the river
Ikom the squatty uui sag iltpaded bums, tie Demme the small, darn. shrivelled, jeer the girl."
and pisses of bane., bombes of thaw- ' cboleris old Frencbasu, and tie-Meig 1 Then woo eo tinge 1•.r further °animraa
*Was, ■hips, esu -belle aced yokes ; cad
here and there hung a reedy -made dress
and • ruffed amebae' sua•bonnet.
The dingy little place was thronged
with buyers, all waiting their time to be
served, fns Captain Terror's new clerk
trialed and neighbor, came over to acid , lion• (..r hen was Octave himself mile,.
and gesticulate and groan; and to launch ' ing ue to the gab/ sad $i.gied �i tatf
sssrcely veiled repr.•aches at hiesseif, front his horse. Malwee IINflal Berea'
pour Cecil was angler indeed and very $wndsy suit of Wee flannel, and lis
wretched. wide cants' hat, and he hooked remarka-
"The Tradit'•1..,at has gone on to the! bly bright and handsome as he ase
wally fine tobacco crop in hit pocket— I cheeks, and Mr fair wary hair, his
pocket—
down to New Orleans for the awowedn heart stirred stranvely within him, and
purpose of dancing at 000 of the then ' he vas minded of the alias little fourth
farrow (onion Gtr. tali,. He had it tit' or titch cousin who came down to the
mind to scatter ben daac other seeds �'[ la -
to bid him good bye the day be ago by the perversities" u[ • fuoliah yawng
hat eno.d crop which youthon
as went away on that first roystering jour- woman, were likely by the perverseness
that time permitted the youth of his ney to New Orleans, and who, when he of another to remain asunder.
cls to naw openly and shore boded. looked beck, was gazing • se wistfully The next morning M. Paul Joubert's
Yining down Res Bourbon on the after him. She had the same wine, huge old family carriage came lumber -
wry to his first resod, however. 6e en -
too. though at Wheeiheld they milled her ing up the lane and stepped with a great
countered the dent sed Melrose eyes of Cenly and sometimes Cis. And she had flourish at the -front steps. Out Dutftdl-
blademuisslle Elise JgwL'ert filer pretty been dead these forty years and more,
head was enveloped in fleecy laces, her dear, dear
white gown was garlanded with roaes,Mr The old nears coughed and Trete got
softly rounded cheeks had the velvety up and welt over and s:oxd beside him
whiteness of • ttsagnolia leaf. She was patting him on the hack with •ffection-
triepiog demurely along behind her short ate solicitude. Jest then the clatter of
tat mammal and her aborter lean papa horses hoofs sounded in the lane, and
near the entrance to the old Theatre presently the gate opened and shut
d't erleans. "Tis but (.cave," said Tante, reseat-
Tbe r.ordu.t Gleet with its dram of Po•ing herself, and she smiled at¢nificsntly.
laptnow ootoruou sirens vanished in• Site spoke as always, in her soft syllabi -
.cantly from his mental vision. 11
abandoned like one under • spell his
mucking companions, and elbowed •
passage, with a bercena quite unneces-
.sry, through the gueduatured chatter-
ing crowd lounging about the credrdr.
The curtain was already up when he
entered the fine cld nolle, acid • soft hiss
pursued him as he marched with an un-
consciously eager and determined step
along the narrow aisles. teat he heeded
this no more than he heeded thseeta I
ripple of amusewtet.t that stirred aauut
the highbred assembly when he stud
.tock still before the Bine yerilrc where
she sat, and stared at her with all his
heart m his eyes.
The wooing was hasty and impetuous
though the wooer knew not one word of
French, and In Geek Lonisuuwiae bad at
her oummand bet the Jeered atop et
(convent` English.
When duly informed of his demand
for her hand by her mother—to whom,
much to his disgust, Marcellus Brandon
found himself obliged first to submit it
Mademoiselle Elise consented meekly
and with down dropgoed. eyelids to be where it rested upon the back of the
transported t., Wheat tield, the Brandup roadie bench. "I have come—again—
estate, Albemarle county, Virginia i for my answer."
and with eyes uprolled vowed .weetiy •'1 am carry, Octare,' Cecile had re-
thlt she would at the instant make her- plied gently, "but it is alway• the sam•
self te.ched r, tt. !aril. loom/ dmd•ii.« • "And always the same realm i" Oc-
But that was when she was Madem..i- ter. had demanded in a slightly beater -
sells Joubert. When she became Mn ing tone.
Marcella Brandon, she placidly but
drably refused to (Weimer. 1'ncle Mar-
celine was fain to transfer himself sod
his hundred -and odd "hands" from
tnhestfield, Albermarle county, j'irginia,
to St. Denys, Rapids Parish, Louisiana,
which ample plantation wails part of hie
wife's dol, and to begin life -lone strug-
gle with French verbs.
Hie forehead, knotted by years of this
c ombat, gradually 'mouthed blarcellus
and Joseph -Marie, his twin sons, grew himself all day long and every day but
to manhood. French came to them with lounge about rose -garden.—''
their mother's milk, as fere Joabert •.l;,.nl• o," corrected Octave, "ti St.
pr.udly observed. but ry the time they Dense rye -garden. 13s at least just.
were fairly in trousers they learned to, Cecile."
twist their rat tit ngues to English when -
"And sing, though m sing well,
ever they ;addressed their father. In yeti
(►clave, I admit that
the meantime Uncle Marcella used o'1 -
tan to be wen hanging over the garden "I only warble accompaniments to
gate, his face aglow with pleasure as he Cecile ,lonhett's songs, murmured
listened to the familiar Jeems River! Octave humbly.
y trnacular of Vol' 13 ily, an old Bran- "And fish and smoke cigarettes, and
don retainer. And then there was Bed- ride about the country with r pack of
f xd, his own solemn old body -servant.
But all that was in the halcyon days
nhee ' de wah." lank' Billy and Bed-
ford had been gathered to the dust these
many years ; twins twins were long gone no right ! Ile should be standing
out into the world : and Uncle Marcellus, I shoulder to shoulder with the world's
who was gni ring old, and had been workers. He should -
"1•ncle" Marcellus to half the parish for "But Cecile," remonstrated Octave
two gener•ti.:ns et lawst, had resigned 1 l ghtly and apparently unimproved by
himself to an unhr•ken 1.1. m' tet. with this very magnificent theory, with which
)dra Marcsllu•,',hotbed become To. f it is true, he was already tolerably
alike to relatives and friends. familir r, "the good uncle Joseph -
Therefore it was worth something to' Hari.—"
ase the smile on his round red face now. • Oh, tete nand lace.," she interrupt -
slays, when Ceci!e Joubert, Tante. eel scornfully. "1'd rather iso—Jli.lorl
crp►jn*d niece, who had come to live at � R,in. un the Tradio' 1....1 if I were a
fro in her low .hair was happily as yet "hey could not see his face. \When he the good uncle. "There never was sea
unaware that Forme sue Ifs and fiord du turned, however, a torrent cf surprised ' a herd as Octave's I••r business. These
Bois divided more than half a century exclamation bunt from Jeanne and! ibtee years he hes managed everything.
Lure. Michel Bares' successor was (►c• And now that these new tangled boilers
lave Gaston. He was in hie shirt-
sleeves. and his dark curls were tossed But nothing of this last complaint
in unwonted confusion about his white reached nothing
ear.. she had .iotas*
forehead, but he looked undeniably dig- (silently up to her own r•e ni at the mew-
nitied and handsome in his new role. tion of the departure of the Tradan'
He shook hands cump,sedly across the t Beat. She did nut are--ef course sM
counter with them all.
!did not erre—when he navel or what he
leaves for Tote's spidejars, and :get deserted *s a lovers tryst
dread. The Tradin' Bust u at the
sanding."
An hcur or so later the three girls,
followed by Valentine, Cecile's high -
turbaned, mahogany -colored Wear, came
rd.stir. tcogue. "It is thy wish," she fluttering into l'ante'a morning room.
west on after a short pause, "that the Their cool -looking white gowns were
children shall settle this marriage for belted with dainty ribbons about their
themselves, and it is perhaps beet for slim young waists ; wide straw hats
them. Thou and I were not permitted shaded their fresh prang faces.
this curious American custome. But
then, we had no need of it, eh Mar -
ray lows ' %o oumbinatiou ut letters
can hope to convey an idea of the music
of Torte's rare utterance of her hus-
band's ante
'►;,awed -.•mussy, neb' min' res, Mane
Octave !'• said Aunt Betty -Rose, hur-
riedly, backing sway from the counter.
"Jes' watt on Mia Cecile. Well, den,
if per don' Lean' nuttin',Mia Cecile hon•
ey, do' I is pcw'ful shame ter had Masse
teeters waitio' on er ole nigger like ez of
•1 wotly when they bad grown al
he wuz po' white trash—eight yards er her heel and cried : and then etc up
t cu'ky red, burse Octave." wrathfully brushing the tears from her
be sat beside her with his arm about her
•'Michel Bares' place ;" continued Oc- eyes still trembling form, "then was really
What did Tante want from the Tra- cave, placidly, measuring of the gaudy She towed feverishly Iron aide to side no danger. I went up in the air a little
din' Bert 1 and what could they bring stuff with deft and graceful fingers : in her white little bed fur a long Mateway it is true, and came down in the
Uncle Marcella 1 they demanded with «true, it is not • very lucrative peition and thought she would never get to water ; and then I saw her clogs by
many airy gestures and bird like —what else, Aunt Betty -Rubel Oh, ap- sleep. tut Bleep is very friendly to all aru¢gling, poor child
arose•. gales, '—he dived under the counter and young creatures. and long before mid- She drew away away ever s. alightly,
Uncle bdarcellw would like some re -appeared with • scoop -full of deed night the soft fringed lids had clewed but he went on.
t; nc!e Marcellus smiled back at her Portend ton.omu. Tante a lot was a apples, which he placed upon the tly-
through the gathering desk. He had long one and included spices and pepper .pecked scales—"you see, Laura, I have
already forgotten little martin Cicely and cotton thread, and a paper of tacks ; groom tired of being idle. 1 have made
Brandon some jeans for Aoirelique's twin pickax- up my mind to stand .lune (he glanced'
Meantime, Tante's favorite scheme ionise ; a garden hoe a•d a watering furtively at Cecile's compressed lips and'
was not prospering out in the rose. pot, angry eyes creel stumbled a )citee in his
garden, although aided and whettled by It was a good mile and more down to speech —I mean I am guinea to try and 1
Uncle Mlarce)lus' odd American notions the river, but • soft breeze came in tram make my own livin3." 1
of liberty. The "children had taken a the moa -bung swamp at the beck of the oI took the brat thing that cffered,"
turn or two about the violet -bordered plantation, and the way lay along the be went on gravely, "really a fortunate
tralks, and then Octave had drawn his wide pleasant lane that. ran between fat•
thing for me—Michel'• lriasuu. Bacon,
companion aside to • seat under the old Denys and Forme aux lis. The chore -
Aunt Betty -Rose 1—how much t"
tnagnolu•tree, who great whitb belle ken rye hedges on either side were all He came around the counter and dez
were filling all the dewy air with their white with long slim buds and big petal terc,u*Iv unhooked s piece of bacon from
rich and pungent perfume. "Cecile,' ad blossoms, and the dewy grass fring the ceiling, "five pounds, eh ? That was
be had said, laying his hand upon hers, ing the road was odorous with the tiuty otter than being idle' —he was weigh -
purple and yellow bulb of the sensitive ion the greasy stuff now and wrapping it
plant.in • piece cf brown paper.
"Already !" exclaimed Jeanne, when Cecile up to this moment had not
they came to the first Low cine hung spoken. She had been standing apart,
cabin of the .uaggiing nide rill•&.. now pale with scorn, now red with rose
under the high levee. Here they en -
.
n feeling she could not define, hrr blazing
countered an acquaintance. He took eye following Octave s movements.
off his slouch hat at sight of them and Suddenly her face softened ; a half -
"Yes,' the was exclaiming with stir • stopped, grinning foolishly, pleading, hal( imperious light came into
heat at the very moment when kindly. "Michael Barts," demanded Cecile,
her eyes ;she took • step forward, and
shrewd old lento was congratulating', severely, "what are you doing on her lips opened as if to speak. Jest
herself that La Ferns auxits ,for was; shore'" then, however, a little door in the rear
not Octave Gaston the sole and only I "Michel Bares, a slight, dark and I athe cabin opened and • girl ams in.
heir of the good bachelor uncle Joseph !rather good looking young fellow, met- She was about Cecile's own age ; she had
Marie Gaston 1) and Bard du Boole. I tend something in the soft Cajan patois a petty round face dusted with brown
Cecile's almost princely inheritance about having had • jrr...o", and his
1 freckles and lighted by a pair of wide,
were at las: about to be reunited. "Yes ! /la HMI a was going to make bin a twter ;open grey eyes A mw of yellow curb
always the same reason. I will not
marry(any man oto does nothing with
hounds at his horse's heels ! The old
times have passed octave," she went on
earnestly ant a trifle dramatically, "a
nun has no right to be idle lake that :
St Denys, entered the breakfast room
with a tiss and bo.rar for Tante, 'M—
ole the dear old English with the quaint
little flavor of ascent upon it, v••,.i •u.,,.
,n1, and • kiss for i'ncle Marcellus.
It was Cecile who came along the hall "Oh. (lessee," she cried in dismay.
ar
now She had f•moment forgotten the
and stood in the doorway between
*WO. fib* cu
b* had, it appeared, brought a personal nature of the dismission : as for
, Above twide dway whist gays
shawl for Taste. For the evening was bar own vast fortune, she had a halmt of entree.. into the store, •freshly painted
drawpoR ate, and eh* hod fetched 1 -eels Nt remembering that at •11.
Marmitest'I'iee sign bier. ns its expensive tnrtaoe i*
forgive — ' did not intend to be s+ -
-• _-- taper for the nue • large letters the legend
lighted :
rad ern fwd*. Bet, at the American school
man, than to he dependant on an uncle,
or a father or • wife !"
A flush rye to the young man's dark
echeek and he sprang hastily to his feet.
opttd
tee
of gernism leaves.
"I do not believe a word you ase,
Michel," interrupted Cecile, "that is
nestled against her neck and crowned
her forehead, the sleeves of her blue
cotton gown were relied op to the elbow,
what rim said the last time you stopped displaying a pair of white well-rounded
of and got drunk and beat your wife, arms She awe forward similioq and
end Captain Tuner had to come him- smoothing her check apron with plump,
self he was ti'd h'an wanted to rem' a floury hands.
"Mister Gaston," she said it. • soft
drawling voice, "Captain Tarver, he
says fer yer ter corns in ter the tent fer
dinner. I'll 'ten' the ate' tell you're
done eatin'."
"Dinner?" said Octane, staring at her
a moment in bewilderment, while a r - glans—tore it has Leen twenty years
sion res. before him of the round tabletiotx he had mounted •horse—ante ride
at Femme aux Ifs, with its array of chry-
away. A little later she full, rather than
stal and silver ; under Joseph -Marie at heard. Mr J.oteph Marie gall..p deem
one end sipping his claret and d.nouac- the lane from Fertne aux Ifs. And then
the hours wore silently away ; the yel-
low mognlight faded : the gray dawn
came creeping tn. Will she ever forget,
I wonder, how she felt as she stood be-
fore her mirror in the wan uncertain
morning fastening one of Leure's black
dresses about her threat, for she hated
the sight of black, poor child, and had
none in her wardrobe ; and smoothing
straight the rebellious little curls that
wanted (to frolic, as usual on her fore-
head. It was • white drawn face which
looked backed at her out of the mirror,
a face from which all the beauty and
brightness had soddenly fled.
And then she went slowly down tie
wide staifway, and screw the remodel),
and driven to the rose -Virden gate, where I
to bis little cabin, when he betook him- all the household were anxiously await- '
self to bed and shook with a reel f, ...' „ ing Uncle Marcellus' retarn. They took
until she was well along the row border• her silently among them asshe approach-
ed lane.Geled. )Leen Tante, who yearned so over
Taut l* had not even este Aim. her, found nn w -:rd• to offer to her
fol- cine;. dry-eyed sorrow.
while."
"You aro not telling me the truth,
Michael," said his "waitress inexorably
"and mind, I shall certainly tell Father
Kenyon if you behave as you did the
last time."
Michel took his scolding in very good
part, and looked after them with a
Bunning smile as they walked on toward
the landing,
The river was low and they had to
pick their way carefully down the steep
side of the levee. A noisy crowd, most-
ly of negro'', stood aside to let themts
pa, and returned their greeting with
loud but respectful salutations.
A wide gang plank led from the slit •
pery bluff off the Tredin' Boat. The
Tndin' Boat with • small side -wheel
steamboat with • single deck, at the
front end of which was constructed a
cabin with • flat roof. This was our -
mounted by • tiny pilot how*, sad
served as the floating ".tore." The
ever space behind the cabin was necu
pied by a rusty engine and • couple of
dilapidated pumps. The rear deck
enntaieed • smoke-stained teat, behind
whose scanty flaps s bed, a socking
stove and a deal table pled with dishes,
were more or lege visible.
weave about the other she ome down when f have been, ye* know, they have 1 JACKSON TARTER, Dtat.tm IN
the steps and paced bock and forth akoii each different ties from--
the shelled walks of her rye" garde., ard, "Oh, yes, I knew,•' M growled with a
'reaming a gap little ehansrxtstte and image imprecate). .seder bis breath ad•
si
.,lenng now awd amens toward the gats! itemised to heirloom •,boob, ie generet,
sad up the lawn Me led le L Forme t •ed this persist** pewees. n
whe
DST MONKttasnwsaa AND
ntlraaat NNW. ANUS&
Withinme, a sweeter a along arae side;
as dic
the wail behind it wed with Amigos
over the sli,htly reddened eyes, and efts
was dreaming that Octave was wrapping
ac
• bit of been in that lung coveted white
Chins -crape shay.; in Tatte's big amcime
When
Did anything happen % She found
herself standing in the mind). of the
room *haling from hied to foot. The
moonlightwhite moonlight stresmed in through
the window across her little tare feet
and the wind Cluttered the folds of her
snowy night-dress What was it : Her
heart was beating still and in the honey
suckle cines outside the window,a mock•
jug bird was thrilling softly.
After a time she crept back to bed.
with her rosary on her wrist, and lay
there. stilt tremb:aru, and counting her
beads. A long time after. site could
never teal how I.•nl---there was a sudden
tumult out in the lane, a rush up the
avenue, a baneing of deera,hurried steps
aLeut the halls. voices in exc't,.: interru-
gations and exclamations. She sprang
! up again, as Lture burst into the noose
followed by dentine, who shrieke,i,
•'Cecile, Ceci:e. the Tradin•F.oat bas
blown up and 1'ctare is killed ! •
"oh, Jeanne. how thoughtless of
you ' ' cried Lure, reproachfully, as
they bent together to lift a little white
nseless forte from the floor. For Cecile
had fainted. Rut it was only fur a mo•
ment, and she presently begged them to
leave her. She would rather be alone,
1 she said :
She listened quietly when an• 'her
messenger came in to tell hew t e lace
had been seen perfectly safe, or at all
erects alive after theexplosion, and how
he had &heweds duet his life endeavor-
ing to rescue a young woman who was
employed on the boat. From her win-
dow she saw Uncle Marcellus, in the
soft mellow moonligh', swing himself
into the addle, with many puffs and 1 J
aceson Tsrrer s young wue,you
know. you saw her yesterday on the
Tndin' Boat, didn't you 1 and so I
brought her ashore with me, neither of
us the worse for a little wetting. How
those blundering idiots could have
brought up such a piece of news I can't
c. ceive. But then," he added with •m
smile, "I. at least. ought not to co -
plain."
"Do you know, Cecile." he sent li
more gravely, "that I am horribly afraid
that it is I who am resp,naible for the
explosion ! I was very tired after mea-
suring calico anti weighing sugar and
baryon all day— —' •
"Poor boy, 'she murmured sympathet-
ically.
"And when I sat down to smoke and
to dream of Somebody's rose -garden and
$umeb.'dy, ',ethers eves, then, walking
there. 1 lighted my cigarette and tossed
the match over amonv the kegs and
boles; and the next thing I knew the
roof was open and was ¢nine skyward "
' t tot Octave, Octave !'• and she nestl-
ed al/ain't hent, shivering attain at the
there thought .f his past danger.
"Uncle Joseph -Marie is down at the
landing now setthn: up with Jackson
T , who will no doubt in the sod
gain by the damage done the Tradin
Beat—and, by Jove, I had quite forgot
the thirty dollars i owe Michel Barna for
lending me his place for • month ! But
I am going to be more careful next time
':.vile, I mean to go away and find
something to do—now that I know that
y- me— s teething in real earn -
ear .
She clung to him hysterically. "Nev-
er," she cried. "you are never to leave
me again, Octave. Oh, how cue you
talk a' cruelly 1 is not sty fortune
encuch far as. And even if that.hneld
fail, is there rent always the good uncle,
oseph-Marie
ing the new -tangled boiling -kettles: him•
.elf at the other, and the open window,
with the sunset streami to ; and away
over the tope of the tre the steep roof
of St Denys, where Cecil--
"Dinner 1 Oh, certainly," he cried,
arming suddenly to himself. And Le
smiled down into the pretty face lifted
to his, "as soon as 1 shall have served
these ladies—"
But the ladies were gene. Cecil was
flying across the gangway and up the
steep levee, with an angry spot on either
ebeek, and a dangerens fin it her blue
ries
Michel Iiarea,who stood in the Darrow
pathway at the top of the levee, heat a
rapid retreat at eight of her, dodging in -
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but if you are c•.natipated, or have sick- f
headache, bad twee to the month, rush
. f blood to n,
the head, bilious onplaint,
or any similar difficulty, yon .honed gra
at once to your druggist for Dr. Pierce's
"Pleasant Pareatiye Pellets," the most
eflieleut meant for eradicating it. by cor-
recting all disorders. f the liver, stomach
and tomes. Small, anvar-orated, agree-
able to take, and cause no pain in grip•
inc. By druzzi.ts.
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little tem for the Teeth and Eat«. Ask
your drugre.t or address
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duet, and • skerry in the lane• and there
was Unele Mareellus dismounting from
bis hone with vendetta! sprytsyss, and
taming hie ebeesfel red hoe tweeds
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