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The child ia alive and well today. Ayera Cherry C. J. WooLDXicz, Werthen, Texas. Pectoral saved its life. Ayers cscrrg Pectoral. iSBfffwwffywwyynnmnmn CHAPTER XVL (Coxtixced.) Emile, without A moments hesitation stood up in a cart, and began a furious harangue, somewhat after the fashion of hla old club addresses. Inwardly he waa stricken with remorse, remembering that those old appeals had lost their power. He had claimed equality, the power of rising by worth of character, the right to be men, the haughty refusal to bend the neck of slaves; but now the wild heart of lawlessness asked for nothing but revenge and triumph, blood and crime. HU words were eloquent, and he took care to refrain from appeals to their brutality, but he dwelt adroitly on the watch-crEquality, liberty, and all around applauded heartily as he descended. "You are Just the man we want! cried M. jrre, coming forward with louts tretched hands. Emil could scarcely control his shudder of disgust, but hs shook hands heartily and answered with the 'most apparent delight: I am ready for the work. The whole people must come forward and behold! France is free! Might you be .the loyal worker for the people my comrade has been speaking of are you citizen Pierre? "The very one; and 1 am proud to meet the Gray Falcon. Arm In arm M. Pierre and Emile walked into a restaurant for breakfast Im on the 'cent of a nice brace of aristocrats, 'said the former confidentially, as he disposed of one huge morsel after "they escaped when the chateau was burnt in the most Infernally mysterious way, but I shall have them yet I shall expect much help from your sagacity. You people in Paris must have got well trained by this time. How go affairs? "Prosperously; there Is not the slightest doubt Louis will be beheaded, and the Austrian wife will follow. There is one danger. We may get the tide so strong it may sweep some of its helpers away, too. The Mountain Party and the Jacobins are fighting each other. I promised to start the flame here, but you seem to have It well performed, and I see not but 1 can speedily return. Wby cant you go back with me, citizen Pierre? "Willingly, brave Falcon, if I have caught my birds, but otherwise I must stick to this' spot. I know they are still about the place and I must watch my nets." "You seem to fcavs great Interest in succeeding? "To be sure. I have double motive gain and revenge. I havent told you there Is a girl In the case, have 1, that gives extra zest to the adventure?" Emile swallowed his dlBgust and ire as best he might, and with some trivial excuse, left M Pierre to finish his breakfast. It seemed to him he should stifle If he breathed the same air with the villain any longer. He found himself the object of awe and reverence. One who had passed through so many Parisian tragedies, and whose reputation as a revolutionary orator was so widespread, might well draw the attention of alL It was a sore trial for him to speak now. The terrible perversion of his former efforts made his heart heavy under similar attempts. He had seen for himself what revolution meant, and he was almost ready to accept the old evils patiently. In lieu of tbe maddened convulsion, whatever purification might eventually come from it But he had set his task before him, and Emile had all bis life been used and to r. He was not the man to blanch or y, ! Dos Dheharired tha Gia, Jack A woman cant throw straight. While Doc" Daria of Nlcholesvllle, Tom Oh, I dont know. Did you ever have Ky., waa loading a nauulo-loadln- g one throw you down? N. V. Journal shotgun, hla dog sat on the Soar scratching hla ear. The dogs foot hit "Threat'll Field and Fallow." the hammer and the gun went off. Ds vis waa perhaps fatally shot. 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The days wore on from a week to a month, and still Emile found himself hampered1 on all sides, and bound hand and foot by tbe press of circumstances. His heart sickened as he thought of 1 the long delay, tbe torture of watching and waiting in that underground retreat He waa nearly frantic with ' alarm as he heard M. Pierre confidently broaching the plan of hunting for caves or burrows in the forest, declark. . money-bacing he would dig it all over before he Best gave up his search. ? baking SthiLins What is the missing word not SAFE, although And still no plan for their escape powder and tea art safe. had occurred to him. Hla very popularGet Schillings Best baking powder or tea at your grocers; take out the ity Increased the difficulty; be had no ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder; yellow ticket in tue privileges, every movement he made waa noted; he gave out notice that he December 3iaL tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before waa aent for to Paris, and made osone that after only Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; tensible preparations for departure. word for every ticket That Very day came M. Pierre, JubiIf several find If only one person finds the word, that person gets lant end sanguine. will be equally divided among them. It, Walt a little. Falcon, and I can go Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard with you, after I catch my prey. in one "You have remarkable faith, citicreeping babies at the end of the contest Those sending three or more These on no it calendar advertising zen, to hold so firmly to the belief that envelope will receive an 1898 pocket the Little Forest contains fugitives. I creeping babies and pocket calendars will be different Vwa the ones offered in confess 1 should have given It up long the last contest contest The closes December 3ist, Result will be announced about January 5 th. Schilling s Best baking powder and tea are because they are . Better cut these rules out. Address: MONEY-BAC- K, SAN FRANCISCO. igo. If "Oh, no, not If your faculties were sharpened with the thirst for revenge. At last 1 am rewarded. The watchers last night detected a man stealing toward the spring of water In the center of the forest One caught, him fairly, but he wrestled with him, escaped and in the same strange way vanished. It has happened twice before. They are foxes. I give them due credit but I shall discover their burrow yet I have sent for tools, and Ill dig over he whole ground and cut down every tree, but I will unearth them. -- Success to you, citizen, answered Emile, but he longed to leap upon him and throttle the exultant villain. Left alone, Emile sat a long time with hla head drooping In hla hands. Something must he done, and that right speedily. He sprang up at length with a brightened face, and began examining his pistols. After that he went out to find his CHAPTER XVII. alone, . after to fEFT the Emiles the the young were rather but each to the other. know what an pro- -' tector I must seem to you in compari- son with Monsieur Emile, dear Chlo-tlld- e, said Jules; "but, indeed; he is paragon. . And now that my strength has returned, and something of my own spirits, I assure you I shall be of better service than you Imagine. "Nay, dear Julea, I have all possible confidence in you, and so has my uncle. He told me about your generous and heroic interference' for the poor old priest in Paris.. I have been sad because I could not throw off the depression ' the lack of his cheerful encouragement was likely enough to induce, and I have been haunted with a fear of some danger befalling him. He ia ao thoroughly acquainted with the forest, and so accurately informed e the revolutionary movements, his loss to us would be certain destruction. "It would indeed be irreparable. I am overwhelmed with gratitude and admiration for him. What a wonderful man he la! No king could seem half so grand to me. "And you know not the half. I only wonder that he haa aver been ene of the revolutionists. "Nay, that ia the least of my wonderment. With his talents, hla varied information, hla heroic nature and great heart, I cannot blame him for rising up against the oppression, for the laws of France wen horribly grinding upon the under classes; and that such as he should he insulted and down trodden by a titled Ignoramus would indeed be shameful. "Yet I am sure he ls troubled and remorseful for the part he has taken. Yea, his sensitive nature is shocked by the bloody issue of events. Had such heroic, magnanimous natures as his held entire control, we should have seen quite another form of revolution. There la General LaFayette, I know that he believed in the .overthrow of the throne, and the establishment of a republic, similar to that of his favorite United States. He la woefully made aware that he who touched the straw with fire cannot hope to contra. the - flame. "And your sympathies, Jules, you have not told me which way they turn? asked the girL "Indeed, both ways, I may say. I do not blame the people for declaring in favor of equality. I cannot bear to see the nobility massacred. At present because of this last sentiment I am hunted down like a wolf, and grievously hated by the peoples party. I suppose therefore 1 might be called an aristocrat. You do not seem like one of the people, observed Fellcle, thoughtfully. "I may reiterate the remark concerning you, Chlotilde. I never saw duchess or marchioness more thoroughly aristocratic in appearance. She blushed and answered hastily: My associates Lave all been nobly born people. I should know It. It is tbs same with your uncle. It all goes to prove the much vaunted aristocracy of blood is all moonshine. Educate one of the common people into the refinements' of wealth, and they are far nobler than nobility, take them at their best. Felicie recalled some similar remark of her mother's and a sorrowful expression came over her- face, and she sat a long time in Bilence, her head drooping on her arm. Jules, perceiving it, hastened to find an interesting book, ani read aloud. After which he playfully proposed bo should serve her to a lunch, and t divert her mind, assumed the manners of an Arab host, and actually brought a merry smile to her Ups by his quaint language, as he brought forward some figs and dates from the generous store - Emile had taken from tbe ehateav. So passed the time, each endeavoring to add to the others cheerfulness and divert the approach of melancholy Every evening they went up to the higher room, carefully examined the viJ clnlty, and then In utter alienee stepped out to breathe the delicious freshness of the outer air. But aa the days wore on into weeks, apprehension end anxiety seized either mind, though each endeavored to conceal it from the other. They still practiced their little innocent arts for diversion and entertainment, bat the blank smile, the absent look, revealed that their cheerfulness was all pretense. They discovered, too, the watch in the forest had been more closely enforced, for Jules had taken Emiles place in the upper room and several time heard the conversation of the men. He came down one night and found Felicie weeping bitterly. "Dear, dear Chlotilde, take heart, I beseech you, cried he; "do not despair; all will yet be well. She tried vainly to repress her grief, and then burst forth piteously. Emile is gone; they have1 killed him! my noble,, generous friend la lost. Oh,. I am all alone all alone in thla cruel, pitiless world! Jules knelt down before her, and drew' the drooping head to his breast. "Chlotilde, dearest, that la ungenerous. Here is one who la ready to sacrifice everything, even life itself. In your defense. You force from me the secret I meant to declare to your uncle before I breathed ft in your car that I love you, dearest one, with a love purer and truer and more fervent than I had dared to hope should brighten my desolated life; that I would choose you, though; I were a king In the land, before the proudest lady, the most royal princess you, a peerless daughter of the people;."The startled girl had: drawn away her hands from her tearful face her soft smile waa like a- rainbow la a summer. "Is it possible, Jules?' stammered . - - - she. , "Ah, you are angry, yew are, vexed, said you have no love in response, Jules, in a troubled voles:. She had drawn herself, away aa if startled by her own discoveries; her face was half averted, her beautiful eyes downcast, a rich rose slowly flushed her cheeks: ' "I am astonished, I ami perplexed, but angry, ah, no, Indeed, Jules. I am rather grateful. "But you have no lova for me in return; alas! why jthould. have ventured to hope so? , She turned her face- toward him slowly. What a sweet hope lighted up the lovely features! I am cruel to withhold the truth. I will not be outdone , in generosity.. What I could not say- to a marquis L can answer to you,. Jules, I do yet, you must forget that I have said It until we see- Emile, or learn that something has befallen him. Jules' was kissing her hand in the extravagance of delight. Now is the world, a paradise, though I am a hunted refugee, and know not how many hours, af security are left to me. Felicie ran away to her little retreat aa soon aa possible, and sat down there in a perfect bewilderment of mingling emotions. Half horrified at herself foe being capable of this feeling of Joy, quite frightened at the words she had spoken. It was long ere a feeling of peace and serenity returned to her. Then it almost seemed her mothers - - love-you- ; - spirit returned to her and breathed upon her a saintly benediction, aa in approval of her course. It Is true she scarcely dared to think of her father; she shuddered as she put aside the thought of his anger and horror of the betrothal of a Languedoc to the humble Jules, a representative of the class the count had looked down upon with such aristocratic scorn. But her mother had been her guide and oracle in life; it waa not likely her sentiments should be held less sacred now that death had made her memory saintly. This little love episode gave new interest and life to their flagging spirits. But as the fourth week crept on, the pair began to dlBtrust sorrowfully the likelihood of Emiles death, or imprisonment. Jules grew grave and careworn, feeling the responsibility resting upon him acutely; and his fair companion though she sedulously avoided any expression of despair, showed plainly by her paling cheek and heavy eye the anxiety which oppressed her. (to as coxTixuan.1 Wooiirork E((i la Swufoa. Owing to the inhabitants of Sweden being very partial to tbs eggs of the woodcock it la more thin probable that the breed will be greatly diminished, If not at last totally extirpated. The eggs of the above species are to ba seen for sale in large numbers In tb various markets in Stockholm. The Cherre Pongee gourd, which grows in lulls, increases its length three times daily for thirty-fou- r day |