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Show quaint my man with my destination." The fellows knowing they had me I was would consent to nothing. hustled into a coach, carried to LudSept. 14, 1814. low, and there locked in a putrid cell I will accept no favor from, and a cell such as was used for crimconclude no terms with those who inals of the worst type. mtke allies of Indians, who incite An ignominious ending to a most By MILLICENT E. MANN slaves to insurrection, and whose own delightful day! An ending altogether cruelty matches well that of their savunaccountable to me. "A warrant BY Copyright, 1804. by LIVASUNiVLnT'O. age associates. signed by the King! the constable WTM ILLUSTRATIONS BY DON C. WILSON JEAN LAFITTE. said and that was all he would say J903, fy Itttk, Srotrn inf Put not your faith in Princes, fot so not were doors easily Prison C4j! vrtAH1fc.K A v Continued. & fiatrmfj "Had you any curiosity concerning when they promise most they do opened as in the past. Beluche and 1 is True, But you I.ady Felton? Indeed, it certainly replied dryly. least. CHAPTER XXVI. he was looking out, when Pierre said, Lopez were still under confinement, were out of town well better late lacking in you, sir, since you did not I wondered how long it would take Night in New Orleans, where the in a voice so solemn as to sound ut- together with their crew, and the reI finished with a shrug want to see so famous a beauty, it than never. to find out where I was hidden. Gil former gay life of the streets had for terly unlike his own. Come back, cently captured Baratarians. of the shoulder. would have been no difficult thing to The days at Shell Island passed the Jean; come and sit on the bed, beside many weeks been hushed I Was there no post or messenger to have found out what I have just told I wondered for four days. The first threatened calamity of an attack, or me, as thou didst when we were boys monotonously. Once, in October, La tend it by? she day I paced my cell in varying moods. you. questioned. damned that linkman up and down possible siege. 1 together in Languedoc. I am dying, fitte made a trip to la Tete des Eaux, Jr wait until 1 could see I had none, I preferred Be admitted. my The air of the city, muggy and life- and thank God that I can die with where he found only Lazalie and Madthe length and breadth of England, I into it to wished myself give plea that I was too absorbed in Mis- that he had nc waited long enough less as the thunder showers of the thee near me. Having this, I ask for ame Riefet, Gen. La Roches sister, you your own hands, I said. tress Allyn. to learn where hey were taking me day had left it, was still more un- nothing more. The surgeon told me who had, for the present, closed her Do you suppose I would allow any I bowed low before her. was so as to acquaint Gil with the fact. bearable inside the walls of the gaol, that if the blood came again from New Orleans house, and stopping one to hold me to the few words Listen! she whispered, and held a I tried in every way possible to where, on the upper floor, in a cell my side I must reckon my life by min- in what her brother considered scrawled upon that slip of paper? You her hand up. I thought so. It is my winwhose one narrow, bribe my jailor to send word to him. utes, and the blood is coming now, safer locality. must have strange ideas of women, fathei. 1 did not dream It was so or at as to find out who had been dow faced the east, lay Pierre Lafitte. my brother. The general himself spent much of sir, if you think least Nay, never mind, they value their hap- late. He is coming here. for thou his time In the city, and MademoiThe gaolers wife came in with a Jean started impulsively Instrumental In my arrest, and whnt asked. so she lightly? She ran to the candles and snuffed 1 had been arrested for. It was of no Let me talk to selle de Cazeneau was now at Kansu piness Jug of water, and filling a cup, held canst do nothing. I did not answer her. Instead. I them out and was back at my side avail. He would only say that be it to the stricken man's lips while thee; that is all. hana, where her grandfather was said: without a sound. had his orders; 1 would soon know. gently raising his head. He stopped for a few moments, as dying. I give it up, that you may transfer Mary, he called at the door, and The old hypocrite! Lazalie of Rose, from After Msieur Pierre, I trust you will not if to hearing he when and gather strength; turned the handle. Seeing it was dark her be- it to one more worthy of you. be angry with me that I sent this But what fretted me most was that spoke again his tone was more in- and her loneliness, pleturlng more within although I felt his cold gray sir impertinence! Indeed, and afternoon to Father Philipe, and ask- cisive. side her grandfathers deathbed, I could not keep my word In three of the darkness must manner. disdainful she in cried a penetrate eyes her upraised ed that a priest be sent here for your who would Jean, I can see it all as it will be, recalling the look upon Has someone also conferred upon the corner where we stood like cul- instances: to my lady, as to comforting. and me. look for if thou wilt do as I say. Go to the face when he left her, and the words conjecture Lafitte longed to see you the office to pick and choose my prits, scarce breathing. Is it Father Philipe of the Coeur me from her; to the men what kept governor in person, or, better still, she had uttered, to women all Then suitors for me? she asked, pertiperdt dooming to extend his sympathy. de SL Jean? he asked. who would await my coming back go to Jackson when he shall come. her, if only tlon he stumbled into another room. That she would have heard of his nently. Surely, msieur; and a saint him- Renew the offer, and show the origiof Montague House how they would with I so felt not quiver the be figure scornful, slight Lady Felton, doubt; for self, she answered quickly. nal papers sent to thee by the Eng- disaster there was little both jeer at my seeming cowardice; and to Since you are so loath resentment. hands I returned. "Very well, then madame; you may lish. I heard that Claiborne would Lazalie had met him with I myself, whom I had promised an inYou must go, she whispered, send the priest to me, said Pierre, have accepted thy proposition, but extended and a dimness of tears In to take the paper. Ill tear it up and I was terview with lady Dwight. side door. busiout the will let you so make an end of the miserable wearily, and wondering if by any was over-rulenews. of rid be to My my by the others. I beg, her eyes as she said, Captain Jean, burning She took a candle from one of the chance he might here find a channel as the last thing I can ask of thee on I am so glad to see you again, and ness. had been, after seeing I.ady plans I It. I lit and sconces so. a do to made motion through which to communicate with earth, to show the papers to Jackson. that you were not forced to accept as we Dwight to send Gil on to Long Hant I looked at her inquiringly she stopped me with Nay, do not And we Jean; for he had recalled the name Promise me to do this, and all will the governors hospitality. with the information to Lord Y.aters a gesture. I would keep it as a me- stepped through an opening Into as that of one of the latters friends. were all so sorry for your brothers of be well with thee and thine." another son. hall. back Co you The woman soon returned, bringing She hesitated, and Lafitte said mento of your magnanimity. When the day in which I was to and then Jean ex Another brief silence, she must You know, me to Raoul? sir, Cousin firmgive unmistakable A lighted lamp, which she placed upon he tried vain- quietly, I but with a With a light laugh the lady lowered plained, my father likes you not in see Rosemary and the others passed, the floor, near the foot of the bed, answered with passion thank you truly, Lazalie; I ness, I calmed down. The following days save to I would not, to repress. would say, and the screen from her face, and at the the position of suitor to his daughand, Pierre, closing his eyes to shut ly I passed quite tranquilly awaiting dethis promise to another. understand what you to decide that he thinks life, give hand my ter's into same her time us natural dropped But please let away the glare, did not see the tall, myself in dreams as thou hast asked it thank you for it. voice. It was Rosemary Allyn! black-robequestion to his own satisfaction in velopment, losing the form that entered with But, my Pierre, of something else. talk most profitable of quite Rosemary, me from yes." With a bound I was at her side and giving me to my cousin Raoul Dwight Mindful of Roses love for marsh her, and then motioned her to leave I could do, although It seemed had stolen up until moons thing not The rays he has added she arm. but, proudly, the room. he had brought a large bunch of bad grasped her even in of the window-bar- s lay lilies, What do you mean by this mas- taken In the reckoning the most im- sacrilege to bring mya lady as tilts As she did so, the priest walked to the shadows Shell Island, where they from them so vile into and place strugthought across the hands, clasped I myself. demanded. person portant luxuriance and beauty, querading? the window and stood looking out, his in I said, and cell wherein I was confined. It was along the whitewashed grew now great Sweet Rosemary, She gave out a saucy laugh. them to Lazalie, ho back turned to the bed, until the last gled faintly and handing while loathsome inthe from untouched the light by MadeSince you have given me to Cousin would have taken her to my arms dank and humid, echo of the womans footsteps died wall, requested that she give them to as many as centipedes with sects legs lamp. burning dimly to no comRaoul you have right question again. away. Then striding hastily to the moiselle de Cazeneau, with his crawled about. In a corner a window Then can I go in peace, had come me. she said. Nay. sir, do not make me blush, door, he closed it softly, and, throwpliments. grated and barred hung, and through as she said. from do not the trifle a God! iips, to like paling over sigh Rosemary, My Then you will not go ing back his cowl, revealed the pale this the light of day filtered. I looked I I and was laid Pierres inmurmured, Forgive me, with me, I cried. "What do you here? Jeans head against she asked, while face of Jean Lafitte. toward Its faint beams, on this tha Pierre, my brother, he said, tak- shoulder. the fragrance of the flowers. haling fourth day (a beam however small added out the the RiePut dying lamp, ing care to lower his passionate voice Before he could reply, Madame and lean was preferable to the dark moonto almost a whisper, as he dropped man, let us have only the fet, who had entered the room and corners of this hole) and saw gildexclaimupon his knees beside the bed. "My light. overheard Lazalies question, ing In like a fairy elfin a butterfly. resumed his This done, Jean place ed volubly, Is it not pitiful to think poor Pierre, tell me who has brought Poor wanton thing! IJfe must indeed by the bed, and again took the hand of that poor child over there, with this upon thee. been monotonous that it should have moon in the so white rays. Pierre smiled, as his hot fingers lying the negroes about her and that only forsake light and Joy, for darkness A deep, struggling sigh stirred the I clasped the cool ones that seemed snappy old Barbel Mercy! When As I watched It, too high and pain. silence. and of with revenge. seeing passion throbbing was her age the very idea a stone was hurled me to for reach, in the window, and any one die would make me fly from the grates through the house. insect, that luckless the flying hit She spoke theatrically, with uplifted autumn down, in leaf a like twisted brows and raised hands; for the erdown, while the stone rebounded from ratic, fashionable Madame was, in perthe wall of the cell to my reet. son ((and manner, more decidedly It had a paper tied about it, and I French than was her brother. hastened to pick It up, fearing my Madame Riefets frivolous remark Jailor might have heard the noise and of come to see what it meant. I hid brought before Jean the picture first that little island where he had the paper and listened. All was still. seen the figure, scarcely more than a I held it up to the light and read. At last! Gil was en evichilds, clad in a gayly fringed buckskin dress, with beaded leggings and dence. moccasins, and clinging to a still form Now my brain kept tacking to from which the breath had but just would Gil how pleasanter things; departed. task? How wreck these his Speak once more to your little prison bars? Rose! she had wailed. And he, hardstool beI pushed the three-leggeened by frequent contact with death, and stood upon it. window the neath odds. but I a against fought for time, could not, until now, realize the full reach the window sill could followed moments her down the steps to the with my just few a I left depth of such sorrow. you only Why, tips. I drew myself finger door. He realized It now. when he had ago." looked out, as I had done and When may I see you again? I up that moonlit cell to remember; the She nodded her blonde head. before. I saw tops of times many I must see you soon, I have dead face lying in the silver radiance; Yes, she affirmed; I believe you asked. trees and far off a winding stream; the unseeing eyes; the parted lips, were to be with me In twenty min- much to tell you. I am calling at now all was hazy like a picture Been moment a forever mute, but which, morning utes, and so you are, thanks to me, lady Dwights through a smoked glass. I could see can you not arrange it so as to be a before, were murmuring words that, not you. light bobbing here and there, and in all the years agone, were for him She made a moue at me She was there afterwards? I insisted eagerly. imagine I beard the measured cadence and his welfarei She thought she could be there, of the boatsmens oars, as they feradorable! but I was not to be deterred Truly had Plerrea premonition been verified. This it was that made Jean La- from my determination by her beau- and after kissing her hand respectf- ried their fares across. I was not What is it, my Pierre art thou in fittes face look pale and his manner ty. ully, I hurried the second time that high up In that old prison, else that Nay, he murmured; and his voice,e himself seem stern, as, after forcing pain? You will tell me what you are do- night from her presence. frail butterfly had not fluttered to although weak, held yet a note of awhile to Madame Riefor to listen no was would There that I said, harshly. reply. Jean, humor. at Nay, once, Its death, or the stone been thrown. here, ing dehis took CHAPTER XVI. Pierre, my brother, tell me art fets volatile chatter, he Once you deceived me by masquerbe a puzzle whose answer is beyond (To be continued.) Jean repeated, con- parture. as a brother, and I shudder yet me. The bullets that found me were thou in pain? ading (To be continued.) one of us, and the scious that the hand he held lay CURED BY HARD WORK. . mast for any when I think of what might have been Although I had come out of Lady now you would asin my side was given by heavy, and was growing cooler. the consequences; Prof. Bownes Drachm. He laid it tenderly on the coverlet, Felton's house by the side entrance, never saw before. And, he Desire to Escape sume the character of Lady Felton ; , Young Woman' Borden P. Bowne of Boston Prof. I went round to the front to summon bed so moments the a pause, and, out, rising, pulled that more More adiilJ grimly, after no Than Satisfied. acting. will Life I play have Home is not only a great wit, but -no other on earth will ever receive it was bathed in a flood of moonlight. university Are you speaking to Lady Felton my servant. I asked him if any one came to me one woman A young One morning had entered the house while he The whitening radiance touched the an inveterate punster. a thrust from him. and asked my intercession in sewho or Rosemary Allyn? she demurely waited there. He answered student a class day wide-ope- n the in and philosophy Yes, lips eyes asked. "Then thou didst not leave him for curing her an opening in newspaper of a face whose cold pallor would was not willing to accept anything cried. You shall and that the gentleman had ques- work. I happened to know that there I blood!" Gods me to deal with? show even whiter in the mornings until he saw it raised a great many not trifle with me so. tioned him rather sharply as to his her seeking work, beNo; for I left the blade of my knife sun. business. He had told him that he was no need of objections. what Jean, But on. my went ah, she heart. But in his home and an allowa had as she cause them answered The professor Truly had Pierres premonition If to Lady Felton, she must needs was only looking for a stray wayfarer ance. She was needed in the family treacherous work it was what a base been around looking then, he could; never best him. to Wherewish would who hire those verified; might If to return for thy frankness and generoscircle to assist her mother in her Has any one order you from her presence. sightless eyes behold the France he the class, remarked: a different at my lord peremptorily ordered him manifold is that Allyn Rosemary to ity! duties, which were not a had longed to see once more. else any scruples? and proceeded off. He had retired from the house Jean tossed his head impatiently. as hard and disappointing we thing." If tenth bad part a adding. by make pun You see he but come back shortly. It was like tow playing with fire "Let us not waste time in talking as the work she wanted to do. I knew together enough be14 could scruples of was get The and of a was fellow one September discernment, morning now but she thing she had tempted me too much of that There is that reasoning would do no good, and and cloudless, with the brisk we might raise a drachm among us. was not to be resisted. I took her cause of that quality I gave him an was not at all sure that a vivid deto consider, my brother, and that is clear Prostudent the replied: To which wind distending the canvas of H. B. in my arms and bent her saucy head extra coin. the getting of thee from this place. M. all it meant as she made her fessor, a good many people take that As I walked with my linkman to- scription of the life and as and brig Sophia, come, have I that for 'is back while I kissed her on hair, brow, It with contented home send her without would any drachm a of off kind was I island toward the little the ward the Blue Boar I felt that soon as I knew thou wert hurt. Father way eyes, cheeks, and lastly mouth, where I decided to try it. The But lot. her Pass as known The Turtle." East had We followed. scruples. to hardly me; reason being help my lips would fain have lingered. Philipe has every young woman was musical and fond I There had been little doubt among sir! she gurgled, struggling turned into Holborn before was pos- of so I went to him, feeling that a priest the Fie, she also had a large cirAlarm. False A English as to Lafittes decision, You have crumpled my itive of it. A fellow brushed inso- cle reading would not be denied thee. Fortune souvenir In my arms. and many social duties. the which friends of with zeal and The their had been to and me messena strengthenopinion catclj sought new gown; tis but just home from lently past helped me still more, when In friends all would have to be that their I told her fiends a to reason ed pursue of the to a glimpse of my face. postal certainty by Mantons." ger came from the gaolershiswife sacrifices to hard work, as offered endeavors to add to their collecup recent de attack the their are minisupon Barataria, conmy you prls that Waters, Quentin I muttered something which Father Philipe, saying so exacting and wearying that there His tails of which had been reported to tions may sometimes prove embardemned Manton to the infernal re- oner, he said. trations were needed by thee. var his of her was was neither time nor inclination for He telling and to his Percy. a Capt. let whistle he He rassing. but lips of put him, merriment conscience troubled hovered gions. I felt a ripple seems, it comwas the niceties of life, says a writer in a which, with therefore cation It plans, times. and very three It blew shrilly me have my way for her form. go through to a visit or to a the mind Europe look that Philadelphia Bulletin. between trip Capt. Lockyer Out of the way, sirrah," I cried, will himself come to see thee in the placent You shall stay where you are until was obstinate, as I somewhat She ed ahead on the little island lying on Jamaica. Pat meantime I drew and sword; my morning. you tell me what I wish to know, she suit she would be. She secured will me," Either the the with water, his expected place with me word heaving noonday light. Did the woman send him aid. "The longer you delay the more rushed to assist He looked startled, gazed coveted commented. of in a dazzle position and worked just heat the prisfellow asked the shimmering it up, was it Put up, put dying. Lafitte that Pierre how delighted I shall be. wondered and needed no more time She month. at over the a matic its door, a warrant I green wildly coloring for have growths. your the wounded man. Release me and I will tell you," she bellowed, He was soon ashore, and glanced he could make his escape. to convince her that her former life the arrest King. by signed Jean started to his feet around expectantly, but no one was to Yes, she went on, reflectively, "I pleaded. toll first. I At these words Pat took to his long was pretty nearly ideal, and had the Say not such a thing, my Pierre. replied. Pay some cards from the West Inseen. were be His attracted need eyes by and made strides down Holborn good sense to return to It. There are town the all If she did, it was but the silly thought what legs "Know, then, sir, is that new set there out of and then white a with paper, papiece dies, large of the law was too much thousands like her in restlessness, but I cannot, shadow and The a woman; of knows, that I am called by baptism the Ledhuy of issued in a the thorns England upon spread impaling it. just she for him, perhaps with cause. In his few whose native good sense conquers tience, hear thee repeat must have." Rosemary Allyn, Lady of Felton, case and also In mine discretion was so easily. He seemed cheered by his own bush only a few yards off. He went series which I positively aid. I let the better part of valor. I concluded words and his voice had its usual ring toward it,' and soon read what wrought astonishment in sheer Then a decided change in his expression of President Eliot and the Small Boy. Plans Cheap Incubator. of confidence and decision. her slip from my arms. Alas, the bit to follow his example. I had not Harvard of college an besides Eliot President enthusiast proposes out of A complacency, this," bringing I thee could fend fellow the soon have before will poultry the way time; "I of of paper which should pave a number of incubators near sevalways enjoys the quick retorts ocmy off for a few seconds to make the opbetween he resumed, as he stood beside the oath from his lips. reconciliation a for at Glenwood Hot: Then, plucking the paper from the small hoys In the street On one fced. and down to Shell Island, where brother and myself was as nothing. portunity, his men, those bull dogs eral unused springs looked urchin in his hot water; up crushed and he use to a it little hand, casion and thine. bush, But, running be I me. for were shall I about of law Springs, fought both loved the same woman! every comfort back to his boat, which nsn&ty supply at him, and President Eliot We of in lamps odds. a plac but Lady time, first of all, let me take a look at thy turning about, went of against If Allyn wondered said: "Hello, boy, what time is It by Felton would Rosemary disappointment where, with a look I yield, I panted, seeing I must the necessary heat. The projector of cut the Gordian knot. apartment and, its surroundings. somecrew of his told nose? that and in rage the plan hopes to hatch oat from 5.00, your overcome in the end. "provided face be He glanced about the cell, taking soy saw upon She my chagrin he ordered came the retort "Mine wrong, Dnnno," and gone having to (t.ono eggs each month ac thing Blue Boar of its to the shape detat ay proceed every and said: off. to is them yours?" window. the to runnin; aint push then, going The paper he was espying back H the Sophia as the result of his mission contained only these word; AMITE- Mistress Rosemary Allyn gARY gEVEREUX j iron-barre- d d d ? t. d old-tim- t. -- j half-parte- t, to-ere- - eur-lousl- y |