The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-04-14, Page 6‘You have killed him!” cried Andre-Louis.
OUCHE
a too dangerous gift of elo
quence.”
And he turned away, leaving com-
pletest understanding with Andre-
Louis. Still supporting the limp,
draining body, the young man .called
j-to him.
“Come back, you cowardly mur
derer, and make yourself quite safe
by killing me, too!”
The Marquis half turned, his face
with anger. Then M. de Cha-
! brillane set a restraining hand upon
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY. .
When the peasant Mabey was shot)
dead when poaching on the domain of
tho great noble of Brittany, the ■
Marquis de La Tour D’Azyr, a
shudder of horror went through theI
sensitive spirit of
_ Philippe De Vilmorin, a young di
vinity student, who was a believer in
the democratic doctrines which under
lay the.French,.Revolution. Philippe’s
determination to secure justice meets) _.J|
with little encouragement from his1 dark with anger,
Triend. . e J nruiane sen a restraining nano upon
LtHid ^°reaV’ a y°ung and: m Although a party throughout
brilliant lawyer, who is popularly be-;. .. ya „ unulieved to be the son of jto th® deed’ the Chevalier was a little
Quentin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gav- appalled now that it was done. He
rillac. Andre-Louis looks with cynic- had not the high stomach of M. de La
ism on the new political doctrines but j Tour d’Azy, and he was a good deal
agrees to accompany Philippe and put ----------the case before de Kercadiou. The
Marquis was closeted with the Lord of
, younger.
I “Come away,” he said. “The lad is
[raving. They were friends.”
' “You heard what he said?” quoth
the Marquis.
“Nor can he, or you, or any man
deny it,” flung back Andre-Louis.
“Yourself, monsieur, you made con
fession when you gave me now the
reason why you killed him. “You did
it l-#?ause you feared him.”
When the landlord and his people
came, they found Andre-Louis, his
arms about the body of his dead
friend, murmuring passionately into
the deaf ear that rested almost
against his lips:
“Philippe. Speak to me, Philippe!
Philippe . . . Don’t you hear me? 0
God of Heaven! Philippe!”
At a glance they saw that here
................................................... J
Gavrillac when they arrived. Philippe«
goes to join the two nobles and Andre-|
Louis talks to the young and beautiful I
Aline de Kercadiou. He is horrified
when the girl tells him that the Mar-1
quis has come to ask her uncle for ’her
hand in marriage.
At the request of the Marquis the
discussion of the death of Mabey is*
continued in the inn. There was some
thing sinister in the Marquis’ attitude
which made Andre-Louis fear for 1
Philippe.
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
M. de Chabrillane, leaning upon a
cane—for he had relinquished his
sword to M. de Vilmorin—looked on ■
with quiet interest. Facing him on' (
the other side of the combatants stood
Andre-Louis, the palest of the four, neither priest nor doctor could avail.
staring from fevered eyes, twisting
and untwisting clammy hands.
' He clung to the conviction that theL0 ou^ of impotent rage that
issue could not really be very serious. M> de La Tour d’Azyr should pay a
If the obligations of Philippe’s honor bitter price for this.
compelled ^him to cross swords with I «jt -was your eloquence he feared,
the man ne had struck, M. de La - philippe,” he said. “The thing he
Tour d Azyr s birth compelled’ him' feared in y0U) he shall fear in me.'
no less to do no serious hurt to the feared that men might be swayed;
unfledged lad he had so grievously j,y your eloquence to the undoing of)
provoked. M. le Marquis, after all, such things as himself.
was a man of honor. he swayed by it still. Ivx viu-j
The encounter was very short, of qUence and yeur arguments shall be!
youth, Philippe had re--my heritage from you. It shall profit’
.h!m nothing to have your blood upon
,, „„ That voice in you would
never half so relentlessly have hound-
Andre-Louis, holding the dead
man’s hand in both his own, swore
Men shall
be swayed by it still. For your elo-
course.
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The road went straight up Intermin
ably, so straight that the beeches that
flanked it on either side seemed to -be
clinging robustly to earth with tenaci
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thrust roots on the lower. There were
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way of adjusting differences between
gentlemen.”
Andre-Louis interrupted him. “It
is no more a duel than if it had been
[ fought with pistols of which only M.
I le Marquis’s was loaded. He invited
Philippe to discuss the matter fur-
> ther, with the deliberate intent of
I forcing a quarrel upon him and kill-
I ing him. I am telling what M. le
Marquis himself admitted to me.”
“And what the devil do you pro-
peso to do, if you please?”
“I shall go to Rennes, and lay the
facts before the King’s Lieutenant.”
| “He’ll be too busy to see you. There
i is trouble enough in Rennes already
| on tho score of these crazy States
' General.”
“Good-afternoon, monsieur my god
father,” said Andre-Louis.
“Wait, boy, wait!” The squat
little man rolled forward, affection
ate concern on his great ugly face,
tend he set one of his podgy hands on
j his godson’s shoulder. “Now, listen
to me, Andre,’5' he reasoned. “This is
sheer knight-erranty—moonshine, lu
nacy. You’ve read ’Don Quixote,’ and
what happened to him when he went
tilting against windmills,” the seig
neur stormed. He was very angry
now. “Since you choose to disobey
me, you can break your empty head
against the windmill, and be damned
to you.”
Andre-Louis bowed with a touch
of irony and reached the door.
“If .the windmill should prove
too formidable,” said he, from the
threshold, “I may see what can be
done with the Wind. Goodby, mon
sieur my godather.”
He was gone -and M. de Kercadiou
was alone, purple in the face, puz
zling out that last cryptic utterance.
(To be continued.)
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engages completed the exchanges,) CHAPTER V.
and then without any haste the Mar- ] For the second time that day
quis slid his right foot along the moist * Andre-Louis set out or the chateau,
turf, his lonigx graceful body extend-1 The squat Seigneur de Gavrillac
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“The pity of it!” he said. “The
vitals.
Andre-Louis sprang forward just in (
time to catch his friend’s body under pity'of it!” He boweaVs""enormous
the armpits as it sank. __
With white face and twitching lips,1 hard man, 'and irfeelZve^y "strongly
Andre-Louis looked up at M. de La these matters. He mav be right.
Tour d’Azyr, who stood surveying his11 don’t know.”
work with a countenance of
but remorseless interest.
“You have killed him!”
Andre-Louis.
“Of course,”
The Marquis ran a Jace handker-’ blankly out of his pale eyes,
chief along h,s blade to wipe it. As | „ „cre M
he Jet the dainty fabric fall, he ex-, do? I am told Vilmorin struck M. Io
plained himself. “He had, as I told “" ‘
head. “Ah, this La Tour d’Azry is a
He may be right.
grave; “The question, monsieur my god-
, j father,” said Andre-Louis, “is what
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“Under the very grossest provoca
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“Which he himself provoked by his
revolutionary language. The poor
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pedist trash. It comes of too much
reading. I have never set much, store
by books, Andre; and I have never
known anything but trouble to come
out of learning.”
Andre-Louis felt a tightening of
his heart, a lessening of his hopes.
“Your criticisms,” he said, “are all
I for the conduct of the dead and none
j for that of the murderer. It does not
jseem possible that you should be in
[sympathy with such a crime.”
“Crime?” shrilled M. de Kercadiou.
“My God, boy, you are speaking of
jM. de La Tour d’Azyr,”
| “I am, and of the abominable mur
der he has committed . .
“Stop!” M. de Kercadiou was very
emphatic. “M* le Maruis is my
friend, and is likely very soon to
stand In a still closer relationship.”
“Notwithstanding this?’1 asked
Andre-Louis,
M. de Kercaadlou was frankly im
patient,
“Why, what lias this to do with it?
I may deplore it. But I have no
right to condemn it. It is a common
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with an apple orchard flanking one
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gdzed over the shoulder of the house in
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! At the wide gate in front of the
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i wide straw’ hat, gazed up in shy curi-
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The horses struck into their swing
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the driver smiled gently at the horses’
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i A little further along, the road
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softly.
His companion smiled,
at the house where new
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first, inadequate coat of white paint
"And it’s painted kind of white,” he
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! From the long, green garden rows
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