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A SPLINTER FROM A PARIS SHELL. asked me to marry him, yesterday."
Emity started. "Do you love my fa-
ther,. Miss Gilman 2" she asked, after
BX ALICE GAM
(Continua)
One morning at daybreak, as be lay
on hie bed, something whisperer} to him
that perhaps she had 1 epented now,
and coup} net let him !snow it. "She
are to be my mother, now is the time
for you to do a mother's part by me; '
and elle told her of her fruitless efforts
a moment. at the ambulance, "They all stare at
It was Miss Gilmau's turn to color, tuns
so---a young girl conning on suchReally, she had never thought of that. an errand --it is so opposed to Frenoll
"Ifyou do," continued Emily, "let customs, you know. I •don't care for
nothing, nothing wider Heaven stand that, but they wont let me in, If you,
between you .and hue. If you do not, an older person, were with me, perhaps.
and even think of marrying him, you —Oh, come t come 3 Beg them 1 pawl -
are a very incited woman. No, no, use them anything !"
you need not get angry. I mean notal- "My dear, my dear, this unrestrained
could send Iver father to my mother—ins that ought to anger anyone ; but patinae, these ungoverued impulses !"
yes, surely ! but our French ways are, love and marriage are solenuu things to "Ungoverned impulses 1 Yee, that
perhaps, not hers," He sprung at, me.." is what some one said to me before -
"At my age," commenced Miss Gil- who was it ? OIi ! I remember now,
man, and thele she stepped, ashamed his mother. Miss Gilman, I am ask -
of the commonplace on her lips. She ing you for my life. Do this for me,
knew it false. "Emily," she began and you will do more than my own*
oncefrom his pillow. "1 will go now.
How I have been foolish, perhaps
cruel !"
But it was too early. He mustwait
certainly till nine o'clock at least. 1 twain, ""I respect your father, I like mailer, you will open to me a life that
With nine came a summons to instant am will redeem my past one, that will seep
duty at the forts, outside the wane, ,.Oh 1 it is a mariaue de courenutce, me from cursing it."
So, that was over. I then. I k
The very next day Emily Roberts, :guy i ask why you commit me 2"'
uow uothir g about them, "Emily, Emily 1 stop I listens I
will do s11 I can. But you must wait
now utterly desperate, drove to the •"I3r*eau: e," answered Miss Gilmau, till lliorniug. It is too late uow. And
aparttnent of Madame Labordiere Rasa ` "I will uever enter ai'y family without , he the meantime you must be quiet and
inquired for Celle, Victor's sister. The the consent of its members." sleep, or you will be fit for nothing.
girls had met a few times in society, *"Olt ! you've got as far as that ? in the morning I will go with you."
and to her Emity you ed out in a t.x Well, it's all nettled, tht•n. Don't let l
`And all Wain 1' said' Emily, in a
rout her love, her self-acousatioa, her
hungry need. Celia sat ahhast. She
was convent -bred, and reared in com-
plete ignorance of anything laww•ieee,
during her year in society hail been
watched algid shielded by her mother as
only French girls are. Her pure, pale, are dramong your hie." over the face, e, sort of resolved dhginty, eee!t, r and t1crunant::a ;vooi Nem door
olive -cheek tieehed with wonder. but R "Dreams, do you call theta ? said 1 and rising, Emily 841, "I leave waited ourth of the Tiers office, Exeter.
her heart began to flutter a little. Emily, sadly. so many eights, that t can go through
Just at this point Madarue Labor -1 "Yes, dreams; for your mind has— QUO Pieta more."
diens entered from the next room, 5114 ,flow ellen I teems it 2—tuxrlipulated Just the the roar of a bursting a :hell
Bent her away 00 stores errand, explain- tate facts tin they are not the tome
ing to Euril3; that she could not allow. Your own
loveyou say yourself,
lf,
is
leer to witness such unrestrained, 1!I-
morevehement awl deeer, jr, „,„v,
aF,
us tatllk any ni re about it." hollow voice, Her eyes lobed so wild,
"But we umet talk about it, for one her breath came in spelt gasps, as site
of the thiiges spoken of between your knelt before Miss Gilman, her anus
Daher and ole Wait (if I should consent j resting on her lap, that the latter fear- INCLAII: TAIT.
to dais arrangement,) wy trying to get ed en outburst of hysterical passion ;
you to let go of these tiriaws, for they but, to her surprise, a sudden calor fell anther is Fancy t:+�.ei+nn-t Toys, double
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shook the windows. f4llark l" said
"one
Emily, of abet: settleall
,
e may :a
y
,.
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coal before r h
difficulties es b f re mo !tl h
E•
regulated las,ron—mat}.ymoia:ne must you meet 11. I,abortliere, wanll} you A i414e are eat hi their range,' Ea
exonse her, but it was no lit sight fora rind hike the being your morbid regrets 4 Miss Gil:mai, "aud neither is the hon -
pure -minded yourgirl. u paint him 2 Would his affection furl vre."
Now, at length, Etuily s cup of abase- 1 you carol the fet:liug you Ilave nursed "Perhaps it would be better if it
client WAS
full. a
with the freshhe !thy bloi'd of se
her ; yol
Here Miss Gilruau touched a fear 1 weGen.
re," sRe,boitsaid lts ed at the door and
own savannas coursing in leer reals, to 1 that haul often clime to Emily. "Oh," q entered. "Ah, y daughter, ,you
be deemed a dangerous, enutagioua es- the groaned, "you take from we every- y here ? I ani glad of Mit. Well, are
ample feel a scion of one of thoserot- thing, even what it ct:+nlforts me to
ten old, races," as her father called'i think about...
them—and his sister ! I "MI' dear child, are these vieiona
"lIa1}ame, ' she said, thoroughly what ion are to live upon 2 I have
cowed, "I love your son perhaps too seen dreams far more !baseless than
well, and I am separated from 11:0: yours ideal the elastisticity and ;hermit
through my own fault—aud I thought from a young life. If 1 take your
—perhaps -110 mourns for me." nitltlter's t fires, l;rni1,
I do not thinkmy sou is unhappy, Their conversation was interrupted. and hie daughter 1 She had mounted
said Madame Labortliere, proudly. "Ile °
yon not going to congratulate we 2"
and he rubbed his haude anti smiled
consciously.
Emily gazed at Nim with her fixed,
mournful gaze. Ito looked very
epruee, he had been flying his .hair a
little, ttti-t middle-aged lover. What
a heaven -wide dietauce between him
lives for hie country."
Then Emily learned that ho had
gone t) his duties, perhaps to his death,
and etuggered back to her carriage.
Now there was no object, no .hope
left for her. "Come and help us !"
said her young friends who worked for
the charity -faire, nursed in the ahnbu-
lancee. "You used to be so busy.
What is the matter with you 2"
A few hours alter Emily was in the up.out of his world, and stood, yet
street, when an ambulance passed her quivering aud quailing, on heights
bearing a wouutle l man, Gctl, of wllotie rough, seetarelong wind's were
mercy 1 Yes, it was his face her gaze transforming her daily.
again rested on, ghastly, the eyes "Well, have you nothing to say to
closed, seemingly uncouscloug. As fast me?" he repeated.
as her ehakiug limbs could carry her, "Old people like us don't want any
she followed the little crowd, and saw congratulations," said Mies Gilmau,
the litter disappear into the Rotel du advancing. "Emily has come to me,
Louvre, now become a hospital. to -day, as she would to her uwu moth
She .hastened to the sister ill charge. er, and that is enough. '
"Enungk 1 certainly it is," said Gen.
Roberts, kindly, stooping to kiss his
daughter, who raised her lips to meet
his.
In the morning Emily said to Miss
Gilmau, "I shall first inquire if M.
tinbordiero has sent for his mother, ii
not, I a!]a11 go after her."
No, it appeared that no one had
tonne or barn summoned to No. 14, and
turning the horse's head they drove to
Rue Francois. They were shown into
a fireless room, and just as Madame
Labordiere, wrapped in a large mantle
and furs, appeared at one door, Manet-
te, au old servant, came in ac another,
not noticing the visitors.
"i'oila," she said, throwing down a
small piece of horse -meat and some
black bread, on an eleg Int inlaid table,
amid the thousand costly trifles that
felled the etageres and sparkled in the
mirrors. 14Voila 1 behold 1 all I could
get, and I have stood since before day-
light—five hours—at the butcher's !
But 1 am sold—cold 1" and she held
up her fingers, bleeding from the frost.
"Mademoiselle," said Madame La-
bordiere, after Emily had toll her er-
rand, concluding with, "You will have
him home, I suppose, and, perhaps,
you will let me help you nurse trim."
"Mademoiselle," motioning toward
the table which Manette had cleared,
"you have seen, you have beard ! I
could not take care of him—oh, mon
Dieu 1" and madame Labordiere cover-
ed her face with her hands as a ellen
passed over the house and burst, seem-
ingly very near. The three women
cowered and listened to the explosion,
and the quick cry of fire that followed.
The slay was clear, and fiercely, piti-
lessly oold, the quarter very silent ; and
each felt in her own soul the horror
and despair of the shattered home,
which an inetaat had laid in ruins.
"No," she shuddered, "That prin. w „I must go in 1 I must see Imre--I
lege is not for me.� My fingers would -mean the Garde Mobile who has just
bring no blessing. been brought in ; will you allow me to
One day site pans d at the half -open see burn 2"
door of St. Roel. A. dim, dusty inter- "'You are his sister ?"
ior, with golden bars of light across it, „No ,,
and everywhere groups of kneeling 41. fiance, then ;" said the nun,
women, some sobbing with heads near- putting out her hand to lay it on Em-
lp touching the pxvtuielit, some with ily's arm, and then quickly withdrawing
tear-stniued faces, all absorbed, all in- it, as if to sympathize with such feel
tent on surronuding their heroes with lugs were a sin in her.
a golden cloud of prayer. „ „
She stepped. within the door and "In said Llnily, once more,
stood there watching. She too bore that case, mademoiselle, it is
one on her heart, as dear as any whose impossible."
name was whispered there, but she had holly lookedagdown and writhed g
no right to pray for him. perplexity and grief. "It is along
story,
Soon after New Year's the bombard- saI cannot telt you, but I must
e. him."
ment began. At first it was languid, "Non, mademoiselle," repeated the
and people collected where the shells sister.
fall, and had to be warned off. Chil- Emily then bethought herself that
drew chased the few manta. But after few European doors move not to a gold -
a few days the air shook with the en keg. She pressed some Napoleons
thunder, and at night it was one inces- iuto the sister's hand. "You need
sant roar and flash. Emily went
about, pale, eager, each shell scream- much here for your patients, sister.
ing its way along her nerves. See, you will let me in." "
One evening she walked out with But she was waver! back. It is im-
possible,her father. They passed near a spy_ mademoiselle. None can go
glass, where people were watching the In but regular nurses."
"I will be a nurse, then. I must
bombardment at a sou a look. "Here, take care of Mot."
we should not mise this," said Gen. "No, our corps of nurses is full, and
Roberts, who was very testhetio in his all are sisters. That also is impos-
sympathies. eibili y."
Soon there was an outcry that a lady Nothing is impossible," burst out
had fainted—"a young American." Emily, "I tell you, you shall not keep
"Ah, the poor, tender heart," said me from him. Oh 1 where shall I go ?
one woman, while another, gaunt with Wuo must I sale 2 Tell me where I
hunger, grimly helped Emily's father shall apply for a permit, or order, or
to carry her to the parapet of the whatever it i., 2"
bridge. "It will be vain, mademoiselle I as -
"Ali 1 how dare I faint 2" exclaimed sure you ; but--" and theu nun
she, as she oame to herself. '"What shrugged her shoulders.
presumption iu me? How dare I feel Emily flew to the bureau designated.
anything ?" "His sister 2" asked the official.
"Emily—what do you mean, in the "No," admitted Emily, "but "
name of common sense 2" said her fa -
they. "Any relative 2"
"No, but a friend dearer than any.
"It's that girl of _Roberts'," said an Monsieur, for Crad's sake 1"
American in the crowd to his oompau- "lt cannot be," was the inexorable
ion. "She's crazed aboutsomething. sumer.
He was foolish to keep her here -and She hurried back to the sister, "0,
yet what a bright, strong little thing while I am here, he may be dying.' He
she was, three months ago 1" may die and I not see him."
Gen. Roberts made hie' way through "I can set your: heart at rest about
the crowd of people who cumberedthe that," returned the sister, and ringing
street with their household" goods, . as a hand -bell, she gave an order, and
they fled from the left bank of the so n obtained the information that
river, Emily continuing to murmur, Victor Labordiere was doing well et
•"How dare I? It was not for me'?" present, though sorely wounded.
The next morning Miss Gilman came Emily drove home as fast ase p06-
in to see her. "I have something to
tell you," said she; "Your father
Bible, "Miss Gilman," she exclaimed,
bursting into that lady's room, "if you 1 [To BE CONTINUED.]
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Victor had to stay in the hospital,
and when Emily went there with his
mother that day, he was delirious, and
only the latter could be admitted to
him. So it was day after day and week
after week. She never saw him.
One day she came to Miss Gilman
.with a gleam of pleasure on her coin
tenance. "Will you get my father's
consent, or rather will yon tell him, I
aw going to take Itlise Stevens' music -
scholars. She is ill, and obliged to.
give them up-- and 1 want some mon-
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