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By F1?EDERIC I30UTET.
• (Translated by Wm. L. McPherson.)
The servant, an old woman with an
impassive face, returned to the Inttc-
cham'ber where the soldier eves v,reit-
ing and made a sign to him. He fol -
towed her through the semi -darkness
of a salon, apparently in disuse. The
hobnails of his heavy shoes grated on
the floor. She pushed open a door
for him. Ile entered, .
A gentleman who was seated at a
iia.
in the last three 'months. Grief
oughtn't, to make us egoists -especial
ly so far as you -are concerned. • I
should have thought of that before. I
can't act my self• as yourpetite corr'espon-
dent. I am too much tied down with
my work. And really, I couldn't Write
letters to you -not in any case. -Bat
I have some relatives- •
The soldier straightened Erased up
desk near the window got up lumber- in protest. , t
•
ingly. IIe was tall but soinewlnat Idont %want that. I don't want
stoop -shouldered. IIe wore a short that!" he cried I dont want any -
beard streaked with white and there one elsel I didn't come for that pure
were deep furi'o%vs in his face. His pose. I came In order to find out -to
eyes were hidden behind speetacles. know. 1 had to come. I. have been.
fie put dawn the booI: which he had m . Paris two days, 1 came for only
:n his hands. one thing, and I had to wait three
"Please be seated,' he seta, in. a months for my furlough in order to
politely colorle:.s one. "What can came. For two days 1 have kept pass-
I do for you? I am M. Noi''tier." Mg before your ho-ose.,rwithout daring
- The, soldier tool,: a zest. He had to
to enter. 13v to -day I had to. 1
make an effort to keep from trembl- couldn't help pit. Think -think of it-
�ng. Si frightful embarras=sment left her .otters--'
His voice left him.
fine ct tongclouded.
His bronzed "Her letters! They were all I had.
fae was how
IIe had no udac- I am a miner from the North and my
understand . had had remember family stayed on there, But her let -
what
to ectad. Heacouldn't remember tern -the took the lace of every
-
gladly
he had meant and Say. Ire would thing. They always said exactly what
iingclg to look at his is a -vi , hed. ogazed ought to be said, • You could have be -
mechanically about the dully lighted lieved that she bad known me all my
life. She talked .to me of my parents.
room, Against the walls were same She told me that I would see them
sufficient to warm theechintne
books in oak cases; a littlelire, hardly again. She spoke to hie about myself
-
ered in• the grate. Through the flick -
win and told ane the things which people
don the November fog could be seen think in their hearts but don't know
how to explain to themselves or
settling down on the wasoes of the Lusk others. She ; ust said the things which
enibaha Gardens. It o ?'.1 nearly dusk, I needed to hear', those which -add to
"What can I do for you?' i'4I. Noir-
tier repeated.. one's courage, which make one see
The soldier made an effort, better why it ie necessary to -fight
other things, too. She told the
eci Cance
"I am Louis Perrot" he stammered. And " ' what was going on here, nn. Paris -
"Oh! yes. Oh!! yes. I know-" stories which made me laugh. She
M. Noirtier spoke quietly, but his gave Me advice as to how to keep well.
hands were shaking a little. In short, they. were letters expressly
"You• are the one to whom my wife for me. I looked for. them every Week. .
used to write-" And when I was in the Iine I read
"Yes. That's it. She was.iny god- then] over again. That helped me.
mother," the soldier answered, in a Nov its all ended -
voice choked with emotion, the depth Tie gave" a sob,, M. Noirtier, his
of whic'le contrasted strangely with head u his hands, listened. ,
hie ' simple and quite conventional "I -beg your pardon for telling you
phrases. all this." Perrot 'went on. "I can't;
"Then it is true -then it is true!" help it. I must say it. I have suffer -
he resumed, after a silence. "You see, ed too mach. Think of it! I was on
I couldn't believe it" relief with my section, when I got the'
M. Noirtier made no reply. He letter. I didn't even lookat the en- i
looked steadily, without seeing' it, at °elope,' I was sure that it eves from
the book which he had laid on the illy godmother, since no ane else ever
desk. Finally he raised his head. wrote to hie. I went to a quiet spot
"I thank you for coming, M. Per- to read it, so that- nobody could inter -
rot," he said, in his distant manner. rupt me. I wanted to be happy all to i
"My wife was much interested in you: myself. And then -then I opened it l
I know that. For that matter, she and read. At first I didn't understand. .
was always very active, very devoted. It was another lady, an acquaintance
She was engaged in many relief of yours, who wrote me,"
works. She wore hereelf out an thein, He stopped again, and then resum-
e\en after she had become ill. But ed.
Who could have believed -it was so "She offered to continue writing to'
sudden!" - roe, since now I had nobody. But I'.
He stopped and made a despairing didn't want that. That would have!
gesture. prevented my thinking always-'
"'Don't let's talk about that. Let'a He lowered his voice and went on:
talk about. you. M. Perrot. You must "I had hard work getting it into my'.
have found ?ourself greatly neglected head that it was true. Sometimes I
didn't believe it. And perhaps it i:; i
only since I have seen you -since I.
am here, where she was -that I al -1
,/ \ together believe it."
aNow it seemed almost as if he were
- \ .� talking to himself.
* `
"We soldiers out there -we know;
i•. ! that welikely are like y to be killed. We
expect it. It may happen at any neo-
nnent. So it never occurs to ua that; s
people in the rear can die. And here!
I am, alive! And Ebel"
He stopped. A deep silence fell in
.• the gloomy room, where it was fast
: growing dark,
There was a sudden break in the'
silence, and the soldier noticed that'
M. Noirtier was sobbing.
"I have remade you suffer," Perrot
stammered. "I beg your pardon. I
shouldn't have come. But I .couldn't
help it,"
M. Noirtier didn't raise his head.
"No, no; don't apologize," be said.
He tried in vain to control himself.
A. still more violent sob escaped him,
He couldn't prevent himself from
groaning: •
"But I am an old man. I ant alone
cuithout hope ---without her"
"Yes, certainly; the soldier mur-
mured.
M. Noirtier-finally" collected himself.
e.1.21 He sat there in the dark, absorbed and,
silent.
"I 'lutist go," said Perrot. "Yes; I
utast go. But I would have liked--"
"What?" asked M. Noirtier.
"Nell, I should have lilted- ... If
if isn't possible you must tell Inc so.
1 sboilld have liked- - - If yon have ,a
picture? 1 should have liked to see
her.'
M. Noirtier didn't•answer. He light
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Jur new serial, "By the
Law Of 'Tooth and Talon,"..
will begin next week. The
story tells- of the struggle ,.
between Bolshevism and
Justice and is full of dr'a-
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Might.
ed a lamp on the desk and pointed td.
a pastel on the wall above hien, •
The soldier saw a delicate figure
with blonde hair and with clear* eyes,
in which there was an expression of
sweetness and thoughtfulness.
"That was made some years ago,'
said M. Noirtier. "But, she hadn't
changed at all."
Silence fell again, They stodd
there, under the eyes of the pale fig-
ure in the pastel, each pursuing his
own memories.
Then the soldier went away.
(The End.)
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OF UTTER SADNESS
WRITES MRS. CASTLE,
FAMOUS AUTHOR.
Nearly . All Residents Wear
0..041 thong; Signs of Struggle
for Existence.
only by actually going there, :writes
Agnes I+:gerton Castle, the author, to
The London Daily News, can one -real-
ize the sadness of Paris.
"I have just spent three says," site
writer, "in the once City or Light,
which I had not revisited since the
war. I brought to it memories of
streets, gold and blue and gray, like
a delicate water -color, thronged -with.
Merry, b,lsl' people, brilliant with
shops, kaleidoscopic with color and
movement. The blue and gray and
gold were there-ebright, clear; frosty
weather, with air intensely -Vivifying,
impossible- to describe save hye_the- -
trite comparison, iced wine. To draw.
it LAO your lungs seemed in itself a
sort of ecstasy. But there is no
ecstasy in Pari,e; it is a sad city.
"Its citizens are dregeeat nearly' all
in mourning, and even. those who are.
not wear sad -colored clothes. You see -
a few ele antes in splendid furs, a cer-
tain number of expensive Americans,
and here and there a painted thing-
with
iringwith vivid lines, Out of place and out.
of taste, lost and futile as a btitierflY
1.n a winter of dark trial. - Dutt taken:
as a whole, Paris is filled with the
gravity of those who hotve only just.
left the death chamber.
Stamp of the Ordeal.
"'Upon every countenance you see
the stamp of the ordeal. Dien - and
wrmen alike have looked on horror se
long, have so long fronted the ex-
treme ot human suffrritlg, have had
so strenuously to brace their smile to
meet personal and public calamity,
that they heyse tot y' -t been able to lay
off their armor. The peas still behold,
the soul still, stiffens herself. Prance
bas agonized. and France cannot for-
get
"And life is difficult. The people - are cold Banti food is scarce, Last year,
of all years, pestilence fell upon the
cattle. foot and mouth disease rav-
aged the restored herds. Milk is all
but un.obtain.able; even the weaitb3' ,
have to get a doctor's certificate far
a Baily pint for each child: trot!: won=
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Sugar, too, seems wanting ---sugar and .
milk, these two necessary heat -giving
factors -for health; and with this, fuel
shortage.
People Impoverished,
"Signs of the struggle for existence
meet you at every turn. .Along the
boulevards and nearly -all the streets
booths have been set up, filled with -
pitiable grinicrack wares, such as
would hardly pass muster even in a
county fair; gild as if it were indeed a
fair, every SOO yards or so some ur-
fortunate arrests the traffic, gathers a
ring about frim of staring, silent
people, mournfully to display some
feeble acrobatics.
"Paris, indescribably altered, heavy
with the memory of the past, weighted
with the burden„wof present difficulty,
hardly able yet to look to the bright-
ness of the future! it is only when
one is there that one realizes how
little, with all our own great share of
it, we have really endured, compared
with the French, what it was the noble
and beloved dead saved us from at the
eoe:t of the supreme Saerifice.
".In contrast with London Paris is as
a town still in a state of siege. Eng-
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on her soil, she never saw the town
invaded; the home burn, never- heard
thering of the conqueror's heel on
her own pavement, never saw her
youth; her girls and her boys, driven
forth like cattle to toil for the aggres-
sor,
"We ought all to bear a heart toward
]!ranee very full of sympathy and for -
1 bearance."
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