Show U SL 7 BY ARY WH pvn M illustrations BY BT DON C woj walso afoa y yar am w 0 e at AW CHAPTER later ill hi the he day madame aho ft ho had been attacked attached by a nervous headache was I 1 ang ing down la in one of the bedrooms on the lower floor and laballe sat leading aloud to her the spanish girls rich voice beag the only sound to break the stillness of the cabin where lu in the open doorway rose de Caze carneau Ca eneau neou sat listlessly her cilia chin in her palms and her ees 05 es straying to the primitive out of door world around her so wrapped was she in dreams as not to know that lafitte lafatte had come flom sciples B domain and through the room back of her until standing abo above her lie he asked gently and with a smile are ou performing guard duty little rose nome must I 1 give the countersign before I 1 can pass out A vivid flush blui h mantled her cheeks as she burang up and turned to face him I 1 am sorry it if I 1 startled you ho he said coming outside and taking off his broad brimmed list hat he pushed the curling locks aiom his foie bead then as it if from in pulse he be took her hand L little I 1 tt le rose he said a slight tr tremor e mor sounding in his voice I 1 I 1 must as ou on know leme leae here tonight and there can be no telling m when hen I 1 may return or whytt may happen before you and I 1 meet again I 1 have a story to relate one I 1 have longed to tell you and I 1 haie hae a strong desire aria ing from something far more moie than mere sentiment as to the place where here I 1 should like ion to hear bear it the spot Is not far from here on a little way through the woods boods will ou come alth m ith me and listen to my story lifting her ees e es to his she saw such an impressive Impress he solemnity in their dark depths that something impelled her to say in the bub submissive missive tone of an obedient child yes captain jean I 1 will come with you As the man and girl took their way tilde side by sida lazalle appt ared in the doorway her eyes blazed and her under up was ass caught fiercely between the white teeth as she saw lafitte garitte i reach each out one hand to clasp that of tits his com companion pHillon while with tho the other be cleared a bush from tho the path then they moved on and were shut from sight by the trees I 1 aha abal I 1 thought so BO the spanish gill itald ald to herself herbele her belf the last word end ing in a sigh as she tumid away and began pacing the floor I 1 I 1 hate bate him and I 1 ought to hate her hate eirp no I 1 cannot do that my sa sweet beet rose you are not responsible tor for having the same bame fever that once possessed roe me and who could help ion As for him he long ago gave me to understand plainly that I 1 might claim nothing more than friend phlp from him she laughed bitterly as that last da on the he barra do de rose be tore fore hei bringing with it an increase of f colot to her cheeks at thought of her ner past lack of mean meanwhile robe tie de Caz eneau blood with lafitte lafatte beside what seemed from the wooden booden cross marking it to be a grave it was a long narrow mound already rich with ith brilliant wood growths and the forest shut it away flom sight bt bf tile the cabins obeying silently the he motion of his hand she seated herself upon a fall en tree where here the moss talk as a rug made a covering soft as velvet lafitte then sat sal down upon the ground beffi e her with its his back against the mound the cross making a rf rest at for hia big bared head 1 this little rose to Is plem pierrc a grave pierre lafitte known to the world as my bi brother other and never was a brother more true of heair or lovable than he although not a drop of kindred blood ran in our i eins the listening girl a amazement was manifest not only in her face but in her ber voice as she exclaimed what pierre I 1 lafitte not sour brother cap tain jean no nor any blood relation what et ever er but of this I 1 will tell you pres antl what I 1 to say now Is thit that th it he talked to me ot of you little rome hose lust just before he be died your name was the last that came from his lips I 1 mine I 1 fhe wit fad in surprise 1 I WAA arto spoke to him only once captain jean and then it was but a few words when he be came to the he house seeking grand pere I 1 yes but he saw ou on moro more than once even if you did not know it do riot not remember it and once ft as Bum clent elent for what I 1 mean lie he sighed and gave hla his head an up v vard ard toss tors as aa it if to throw off the thoughts begotten by his allu allusion slon to death and then as it if read ing bioni a book he be told her of the languedoc home m where here he and pleno cleri e had spent their childhood or of hla his father monsieur Is ie baron of na the young officer of hla his boyish idolatry lie ile told of margot and pere per chiot ot of all the persons persona connect ed with ills life rose kose listened intently her face re fleeting the feelings and emotions aroused by lantses story and more than once a mist of deais dimmed the lolet eyes perhaps a moment before filled with indignation lie he said little in regard to hla big life with laro but told fully of the meet ing with ar areloine Grelo eloire lre ut tit martinique which had aroused his better self at this a small email hand stole from its fellow a clasp and was held out to blip ile he took it and pressed hla his lips to the soft fingers then after re b it gently he be went ment on ile he told of his visit to elba of the interview NN ith napoleon of the prom pie ise he be had made and ills efforts to till ful III fil it of his temporary loss of resola tion after the descent deacent det cent uron Baia tarla and of its full renew al at pierres death As he described that scene in tile the moonlit cell her tears freely and at sight of them a strange smile sallo touched lafitte s lips ali ah my pierre he murmured bending to lay lav his face against the wood flowers upon his foster brother brothers s grave other eyes than thy illy jean B 9 can weep for thee As he raised his bis bead rose de caze 4 t 1 4 N A eab 69 W Z T F I 1 ft C AV AL 61 N A I 1 she ehe seated herself upon a fallen tree out both hands to him captain jean oh captain jean she bhe sobbed how could I 1 hive had such buch hard wicked riched thoughts of you it baiely wai wa because I 1 never knew you until now dow she lobil lo lil down don into his face filled with a liht light such buch as aa tho the face of jean lafatte had never before shown do ion know me now nom little rose if so BO then it Is wll for that Is what I 1 wished should bo be before I 1 depart foreyt from louisiana depart forever from louisiana she bhe re repeated PLated end and the dismay in her voice made ills his heart leap would you care would you miss me and his hie clasp tightened upon her hands rose my little island rose he said seeking to look under tinder the lashes that swept her checks when my duty to new orleans oilcans and jackson Is ended a as 4 ended it soon must be I 1 shall return to france to be monsieur le ie baron my father a son eon in the old languedoc Langue dop chateau a thins thing my rm om derors love has nade possible and which will enable me to be nearer him the man I 1 hive 0 h iwa fwu you how bow I 1 eced and still I 1 v 11 V ll it you go with me little rose to 10 be presented to him as my baronne as my wife the tears were running from be neath the lowered lashes as she laid her cheek against one of the hands that held her own ond and a bird a 8 song thrilled out with jodom deloly as he reached up and drew her face to him there Is tin an eastern le legend end telling when etien paradise was fading from earth an angel plucked and saved a single rose abich ever treasured la Is imbued with alth immortal to ey evry ry mortal la Is given sooner or later a breath of ails uil fragrance which brings joy beyond all that earth can give this hour had surely burely brought to the storm tossed toi wd ci cier er ball ling soul of jean I 1 lafitte ills his breath of the angel s rose of paralie to abide ai a benediction of unspeakable peace forever the battlo battle of new arkans had been fought aud and won it proved so sd far as the he result of the war wan as affect affected pil a needless vie A v 0 ao f tory ory inasmuch as fifteen days before it at gaunt a treaty of peace had bad been c 0 included between the united states md and Great britain dut bit the triumph was mas in its corn eneas eness and by reason of the means through which it had been achieved of inestimable and lasting benefit to tills country it proved that amert amerl can freemen although lacking in bisci pline and poorly armed could repel and defeat a greatly superior force ot of veteran soldiers rich with all th the e ma ina terdal and panoply of war the flower ut if britain a army fresh from its vie vic tortes in spain history tells tella how much of jacksons aks lite due to tho the loyalty intelli gence and bit ivery of lafitte and hla his it sas aride from this that but for the warning and Info inia tion given to the former by Laff laffette tte new orl orleans ans could not have been saved gen jackson was as quick to recce tife this during the battle and after wards in its his reports and general orders in ili one of the latter dated jan 15 1815 2815 he said after pacing a high trib ute lite to lafitte captains Dominiqu eYou and ne be luche lately commanding privateers ht fit barataria Bara Bar tarla ataria with ith part of their for mer crews and many brave citizens of new orleans ancie stationed at bat beiles nos NOB 3 and A 4 iha in general ernI can riot not avoid fehling his warm marm approbation of the manner in which these theme gentle men have uniformly conducted them bulves while under hla his command and of the gallantry with mith which they liane hae redeemed the pledge they g gave ave nt at the opening of the campaign to defond the country the good feeling of jackson cfall borne and the of new orleans toward lafatte and hiir appreciation of tho the loal and services by him extended to all his once outlawed followers and dent Mac madison itson in his of pardon used these molds nut but it lias bai been represented that the offenders isaie ma tit f Ls ted it a sin bin core repent repentance nee that thea the have aban cloned the boist cause for the support of the best ard pal that they have exhibited in tho the defense of new orleans unequivocal of courage and y offenders who have re fused to become the associates of the enemy in war upon the most seducing terms of invitation and who have aid ed to repel his hostile invasion of the territory of the united states can no longer be considered tie as objects ot of but as objects bli of a gen cn crous forgiver forg lver ess beluche received an important om rial appointment in south america and after the death of dominique you some years later the cit of new or leans erected a monument to lite his ment mem on it is true that some of tho the more ad venturous relapsed into their former pui suits but their oper allons were 1 on in torf eien sea oa K and louisiana knew them no more there la Is also frood reason for suspect ing that one of these theme more intelli intelligent ent than its his fel fellows loiNs assumed the namo name of their former grout great leader and in 1819 or 18 1820 10 made a upon the site alte of what A bat Is now the city of galves calves ton toil in texas from this came one of the stories relating to I 1 lafitte a career subsequent to the bottle battle of new orleans orleana another being that he resumed its his former practices and had been drowned at aea ea while still another states that lie he died in yucatan dut but a fourth story claims that he be was as ar late as 1830 seen in france arance and that some bears after this his his willow widow was linon known to be living lining in a chateau near the upper bank of the I 1 ole ol e certain it to is that with ith the soils of the black petrel turning slowly from the he golden glow of the sunset sumet near the land to le lije rold cold gray of the fur far off s ben eft A and nd then ilion to beail eie they faded from sight bight TA la fitt fatte e 0 of f lo 10 louisiana lit 6 I 1 a na things that make and things that mar shape th tb nan in for perte perfect t pralay shok and hanain aliann n and lid ruin fire i than the ohp smiling ginlun days the and |