The Wingham Times, 1897-02-19, Page 3t
A SIX HEURESI
BY nnuo4ns aaxr;r,gruw,
"Ma fol I but be is handsome, the
bandsotue young marquis, and ea
young to cyte 1"
'l'o die! what mean you any
friend?
"llave you not heard ? All Paris
1 WIN U RAM TIMES, FEBRUARY 19, 1697,
joy or pain? --and wonders vaguely
where he had seeu that faee before,
"Eh, never, never, Reginald de Gren-
ville, Marquis of Valmonde, never
save in dreams, It is the face of
your ideal, of a strong man's first
and only love."
Presently he is bowing to the fair
(Iebateratte, the acknowledged belle of
the evening, IIe learns that she is
Mademoiselle Reine the rest is
bas been talking of it for the last lost in an inopportune burst of music
four -and -twenty hours, Lieutenri.ut but surely never queen, thinks this
de Grenville lllarquis of Valmonde,is- infatuated young man, wore fairer
an e:fticer• in one of the provincial crown than that halo of red brown
regiments. A week ago a ►,arty of
German soldiers passed through a
Trench villa;,re on the boundary, and
not content with wantonly destroy-
ing the property of the itihabitante
rnost brutally murdered thtee in-
offensive villagers. lits superior
officer General de Courcy on learn- breeze, and now it rises wildly exult-
ing of the outrage, commissioned the ant, now it rings like a regaiem
marquis to undertake an expedition through the room, while the last notes
of reprisal, his company was ordered fall like clods on a new made grave.
to enter the nearest German village, In its gentlest murmur, in its wildest
and after pillaging and laying it
waste, to put six of the leading in-
habitants to the sword. What think
you,- answered Lieutenant de Gren-
ville, Marquis of Valmondc. Very
courteously but firmly he declined
curls. Presently they are talking
like old friends, and the Marquis is
wondering vaguely what life might
have been with length of days and
this fair sweet girl by his aide, the
orchestra is playing a dreamy tender
melody, Now it is soft as a summer
triumph, there is passionate pain,
passionate pain passionate pathos,
"Is it not strangely sad?" There
are tears in the deep blue eyes raised
to the Margiii;.
"Yes" he answers, "It is one of
iilonseiur the general's cotnmissiou those compositions in which every
—refused in fact to lead his men on bar is a heart throb of , the master.
such an expedition, argued with the Should you not tike to hear its most
for a k:ek of af'eetion."
She says it so gravely, with such a
worldlywise air, that the Marquis
makes no effort to conceal his amuse.
meat.
"Ah, now you are laughing at nee"
she rays.
"Nay. I ant .only thinking how
thoroughly at war y"ur ideas are
withthose of your associates, bow
very seldom people 'marry for noth-
ing but for leve,' and how very few
woman remain true to their tirst love
Oh! little Reine, in two or three years murmur as of pity, makes her turn
from now you will be like the rest In that direction.
of thein; you will think the baron's What does she sea? Only a rum -
bride was mad to regret the pool:
musician,"
"Shall I?" she says, in a tone al-
most as even his own, but there is a
tremor in her voice as she continues:
"Believe me, you mistake me. I have
never had a lover," she says looking
straight into the deep brown eyes
above her, "but I would die gladly
rather than marry a man I did not
care t'or,"
"Forgive me Mademoiselle, I en-
treat. 1 believe you are one of the
few who would cleave to the loved
one in sunshine and storm, in joy and
tears,—aye, even us the valley of the
shadow of death."
lits eyes have left her face and
are looking far away—far away to
the grey dawn of to -morrow morn-
' ly wide-awake 45 though .she e raid
never sleep a 'sin. Forward. and
ba:kwerd on the balcony before her
roo n she paces hour after hour. Now
she i3 listening to the voice of the
stranger, now looking into the sad
brown eyes; now wondering- at hip
mysterious words, and still no feeling
of sleep or fatigue overpowers her.
Now the grely dawn appears --'five'
front the city clocks, they have
atruek the half hour when a strange,
rambling noise in the street below, a
irate old gentleman on the malignity a romantic history ?" ing.
and cuwardiee of sueh an action. I -'Oh, very much, ' she murmurs, "Alt t'ioee are! troublesome times,
Imagine my friend, the anger of the and as arm in arm they walk along little Reine; who knows, your fealty
-General; how he stormed, swore,— the balcony together, he tells her the may be put to teat some day. Sup
even entreated they say, in his vain , strange, sad story, pose you loved and were loved be
efforts to exact obedience. A court- "Once -upon a time in the Rhine one in your own rank of life; suppose
nrartiel was the result, and the mar- land long ago, there lie•ed a high- you met that lover in a crowd one
•qui was sentenced to die at six to- born maiden and a peasant youth. day, it might be at a dries, it might
*borrow." Often when he was a little boy tend- be on the street, at a ball, even" he
'To die! at six! and yet he is ing his fathess sheep, he had seen the says with a strange sad smile, "but
dere, at the gayest ball of the season. Duke's daughter testing by on her if hi , were the one soul in all the uni-
"My faith ! what would .1 ou have ? white palfrey. Often he had sat verse that God had destined for you,
A man's last night on earth might through the blinding glare of a sum- if yours were the only soul that God
well he a merry one. It is a special mer sun, watching the dusty road by had destined for hint, be assured
privilege granted ray the governor of which she mist return, and when that you should meet, though all tine
the Prison. 1 d tubt if the inflexible her eyes alight, her golden ringlets width of the world were between
old General knows of it, or would fluttering in the breeze, she some- you. Suppose that he, through ne
sanctiu. such a proceeding, especial- timer; smiled on rho' sl►ephe,d boy, fault of his droppek.oat of his life
iv as he and.his sister are among the then indeed he fits' as if heaven had completely,, would you remember
D teliess' guests." opened before his wondering; - gaze. him, the lover of a day, an hour ?
The speakers are seated .in 'the And so the years went by;the Duke's A star drops from the sky to -night;
embrasure of a• window in one of daughter still rode. her white paltry, to -morrow evening shall "we miss it?
the magniticient drawing rootns of but the boy 00 longer watched the "No" she answers unsteadily and
the Duchess of Cluny, It is toward t sheep. All the country rang withthe little hand oh his arm trembles
the clo-e of the great Franco -Pros- his name. The shepherd boy possess.' strangely. `But human souls are not
siatn war, and the people id'C only ed a wonderful talent fur n►usic, and
beginning to rally from their leth- as years went by this talent develop-
• xrgy and diepeir. ed into positive getttus, people forgot
All the wealth, the beauty, the his lowly origin. Even the Kii>gein-
vouth in Paris are at the Duchess' vited hien to piny at come, so it is
.t ball. Conspicuous even in that as. little wonder that the Duke, on whose
sembl age, stands the Marquis of Val- estate his life lead been spent should
monde. ' A man who would have invite him to his c,istle and present
looked distinguished, though he to his only child, now grown into .a
stood'n a plain black coat beside the- handsome young lady. But one day
king in his coronation robes." A there was a scene in the castle—the
trifle paler, a trifle graver than father stormy, indignant; the daugh-
usuali—But then he is always pale ter tearful, pleading; the musical,
and grave. "Le eherittior saw //elf et , haughty and defiant. That day they
urns rcpror,ke" he ha.+ been styled by parted. The girl vowed to remain
leis more frivolous,aasoeiates, true to her lover, but alas she was
•'A thousand hearts Heat happily but when weak and fickle. In less than at year
music arose with its vatuptuo is s9/ -i1. her father had pursua•'ed to bestow
.Soft eyes looked lova to eyes which spoke her and An one of her own rank.
- again; and atf went merry as a mar. . ,
riage bell. r i he wedding was one of the finest
grandest affairs. hundreds of he
No sobbing minor chord from the Vitation3 were issued for a ball at the
wonderful waltz melody floated like a castle and among others the iuustelaui
death -knell over brilliant assemblagewas invited. Instead of declining;,
, or if for 'an instant it was audible' he wrote seeing that he would be
the next i,. was drowned in the nau►', present and he would also write a
' composition in honor of the • °cession.
like stars. I never forget my friends
—and I should. -remember—yea,
through all eternity "
The man starts suddenly utters a
cry of passionate plain that, should
the girl live to be an old woman she
will never forget it. Ile seems to
have forgotten her, she place, every-
thing but some btrange horror or
with wh:eh he is battling. Ilis hands
seern to be warding it off, his eyes
seem to be staring straight before
hint—to the grey dawn of morning
—tu that other way of life which
might have been his. And Reine de
Cotu'ev watches him with dilating
eyes, and a strange flutter of the
heart which is neither joy nor pain;
but a curious miegling of both. One
of her long gloves embroidered with
her mune has fallen at her feet. Pre-
sently he recovers, stoops, picks it
up, and asks if he may keep it.
`Because,' he says falteringly, I
am going a long jnarney, and alone.
ati l 1 should like sot ae memory of
you to carry with me,'
Wing prison cart, a man east -bound,
whose sad brown eyes are looking up
to the image of the crucified Saviour
held in the hands of a black -robed
priest, a guard of :oldicry with gilt,'
tering bayonets, at multitude of men
end women his tenants and retainers
whose despairing cries and pitying
sobs rise above the rumble of Jim
prison cart,
Only an instant and it is gone, and
Reine de Courcy is standing still, her
fare perfectly colorless.
One moment she stands thus, thenw
says and falls—"For all eternity,"
Two hours later they find her—
dead, quite dead, one hand clasping
a long silk glove embroidered with
her name.
In the prisoner's closed right hand
wes found a woman's glove soiled
with the damp and dews of night
and °rumpled almost beyond reeog.
nition, But when one loin, younger
than the rest, slowly smoothed it out,
and saw the one word delicately em-
broidered by some W 001110'5 fingers,
a tear. fell on it,; and reverently
almost he replace -I it beneath the
folded, pulseless hands.
The man with the yelluw goatee
meant to ride several blocks further
but catchiing sight of a friend on the
sidewalk he hurriedly left the car,
and his umbrella was left leaning
against the front door. As many as a
dozen passengers took notice of his
heedlessness and of the six or seven
without umbrellas every one decided
to secure the estray of himself. It
took cheek to walk up to it but a
'ed -headed man finally arose looked
around the car and then advanced to
to the fr• nt door and looked out at
the same time grasping the handle
of the umbrella. As he turned to
make hie way out of the car a man
smilingly said: —
"Excuse me, please, but I shall
need my umbrella when I get out of
the car?"
"Is this your' umbrella?"
" It is sir." •
"Look here!" slid a third mall, as
he half ruse up, "its a mighty que r
thing that I can't let go my umbrella
without 801110 one gobbling it up!"
"You don't claim this?" queried the
than who had it.
"Certainly I do."
"Why its my identical umbrella!!'
gasped the second man."Ah, there don't walk off with that!'
prat in It fourth. "I've lost about a
dozen umbrellas on this line this year,
and son getting tired of it. Just put
it back where I left it, will you?''
"Not much he won,►!" exclaimed
the fifth man. ''There is it law in
this Sate to pueish umbrella thieves,
our of soft votoos the ripple o, and I'll see that it's enforced if this
laughter. u thing goes to far! Why don't you
I 'l The guests were all assemble 1, ; Assuredly' she answers : and then pick my pockets for a change?"
Suddenly there is aflutter of ex the bride radiant smiling and happystrange silence falls between them "Now then," said the red-headed
peetance in the mom, the next in �a ' r +�� a stl'an Y,
,rant tt young girl hos entered and 1 was leading the lira dance, when the as they make their w ty thro trli the man,"you can't play no trick on
utu•;ieia.n entered. lie waited till it garden paths to. the hone. On the I me! I guess I know an umbrella
is being introduced by the Ducht:s- had finished,till she without a.' lord, threshol't he pauses,extends his dished which I've carried for six months.
—A girl fair and sweet as the liliesi
til t nettles at her 1019 and in,sign of recognition had passed him and although he tries to smile brave Every one of you must have seen
1 where he stoat, then he took his ly, his voice will falter. `G,od bye, me stand it .up against the door
the waves of her red brown ' i a oldIy,t It the piano an 1 as tee first n itee ittle Reine God bless and kee you in."
• ' 1 P when I came
herr. At sight of all the crceti c►iti twilled beneath his Angers, a strange ( always: "No we, didn't!" shouted the others
cal eyes turncrl in her direction, hush fell over the giddy, thoughtless 'Meat you go?' she asks wistfully, • h nus
a daintc pink fluoh spreads Over her throng. Never, was such music 'It is so early, and the Duchess will
hese and face. heard before in i ball -room ill the.' winder at your leaving.'
"Oh ! nnrinnrs the Marquis
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passionate longing,the wild appeal the 'I must indeed go now,' he says
bitter upbraiding of the man's broken relinquishing the tre,nbling little
heart sobbed forth beneath his touch. I hand —how it had tl'ttlered in his
The bride was seen to :t emble and hand like a frightened bird's!—`The
turn pale; and; when atter those weird preparations fur my j .urncy'--sotne-
la4t n-ites, the comp'e'er rose frotn the thing se^►113 to rise in his throat to
dee. b.f.,n. an ns a the aril itt t►ueeet, she terned toward himehoke utterance—'IRemetuliar' always.
r:r only for an instant; the girl's, rya
li• ts•quiver, droop end again the
pink ftnsli. over:pread het: Nee. ' Ti►c
llfitrgnis draws a ling breathe--ia It
f� m his place of vantage—"poor
child !• evidently her first ball,,"
Then by ,snwc inesnlerie '_]fin ver
over that vast sea of faces, tate *deep
Hue eyes of -the ,l.drrrtrorh' gleet the
f u 11 u' It
onstipaton
Cautosr tul1y half the sieitnose glut the world, It
settees tied digested food too tong, in the bowel* t (Marl: shadow rani across their alone, a great void in her heart,, a
and produies billotisncss, torpid liver. tail n:►se, wat), (Thee more ttrti g;lrl cib rove! dread of she knows not what,
y :r1 yes it, and the hiutd on her corn driving the color front her cheeks.
petlions mitt teennhles perceptibly, the light trom her eyes,
-Alt, was she net el. (isle that , '('he elty elorks ate st. iking'three'
,misfit nutt(frn, to forsake her tit'; tilenbrat de Courcy and his dattgit-
, 'eel' for baton and liES land? And tet' drive homeward. Ile kisses her
+lthotr,h the stogy dnea not say so, 1, fondly—hi she not hits only child? -
fetal ,tn exceedingly hitter cry, and fn the yeitre to collie that 1 thank
fell dead a his feet ;that simptee eery , God for having nee:; and known you,.
1l-adetnoiselle, has. endeared trie that treat the iujuetice and cruelty
melody to lovers hearts eeeevermure. of earthly kelps we can ever appeal
On through the garden: they with to the infinite j•i•etice1aatll msrcy, of
•Ire•, those two with youth, and health thle.jttltge of earth loth heaven; that'
end lettgtlt ofdaes, you would say r —but the shadow is,at hie side; he
in their• keeping; but ever and anon, is gone, and the girl is left standing.
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