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Show the weary time he was wise enough CHAPTER XII. A I) Y FEL1CIE. Lady Felicie! are you here?" A a h u d d erlng Fob, a moaning cry, watshlaanBwer. He stooped down, lift-- (l up (hi; board flooring, and then tni-inher In his aims, as ho would K a v e c a rried a helpless babe, descended the narrow ladder leading Into the subterranean chamber, which his forethought had provided, lie lull h.-- down on a narrow, but comfortable in d. and hurried back to close the il.ior uml replace the flooring. That set :ir l. he lighted a candle standing ready on the rude table, poured oul a glass of wine, and approached her. "Try this first, and then tell me if you arc Injured, dearest child. She looked up, pitifully Into his face. Oh, Emile, Emile, my mother is dead? His face writhed in overmastering anguish. 1 know it, my child; God help us! I was powerless to prevent. I discovered that a body of men had left Frejus in that direction, and hurried after them. It I had only known this was to be pie wedding night, I should have been prepared. As It was, when I came, it was too late. We fought them desperately, and drove them off for a time but I believe it wbb a useless victory. I thought you were slain too, my child; I was sure I saw your white face lying by the counts; but when I returned to the dreadful scene, I found no (trace of you, only your torn veil. I feared that they had carried you off; but a wild hope also led me to seek you here. Heaven be praised that you are spared!" Oh, my mother, my mother! moaned Felicie. Be comforted, my dear child, as I was there was no sign of violence, not a single marring blow, the fright must have killed her. She la secure now from all these terrors which we are left to face." She has complained of her heart; yes, I thank Heaven, their vile touch did not send that pure soul to heaven, murmured Lady Felicie, weeping piteously; oh, I am all alone, now." My child, you must be calm; I will try to be father and mother both the love I bore the sainted dead, Is doubly yours. Other perils are still about us, I shall need your courage to help me. She wiped away her tears, and laid her hand trustingly In his. I will do my best, mon pere Emile. He turned away to hide the tears, which came swelling into his eyes at words, and Bald these touching r ! huskily: I must go back to the chateau before that ruffian band return with augmented strength. We will secure all valuables possible, that they may believe we were there only for the sake of plunder. And you will need clothing; can you tell me where to find It? She gave him brief directions, and added anxiously: But If they return, and overpower you what will become of me? There la no danger. They must go to Frejus, first; my men still hold the chateau. We are all masked, so they cannot recognize us; in an hours time we shall be safely dispersed. I shall bring what Is needed for you, for one cannot tell how long they may keep us here. The bodies are decently Interred in the garden, by this time. Have no fear of violence, and try to apare yourself more anguish than Is possible. You will be calm and patient while I leave you? I will try. Will the light show? comes Oh, no; the ventilation of hollow another trunk the through We need be cautious about tree. smoke; hut light, not in the least yxm would be dreary enough in the ' i dark. Thank you; do not delay. A friend of mine, mademoiselle, who has got Into difficulty with the mob. and he must be concealed, likewise. Ske bowed, and looked compassionyouth. ately at the pals-featur- ed . single-arme- d, ht Go ! now. . He left her to a two hours solitude, but It was not so trying to bear as she had feared. The extreme anguish and excitement of 'the terrible scene through which she had passed had left her brain numb and torpid. Sitting down by the couch, with her head leaning against the pillow, she dozed away the time, and started to her feet In the vague alarm of sudden awakening from sleep, when Emile again deA scended from the upper room. young man with a very pale face and evidently weak and suffering who was dressed in a plain citizens suit, accompanied him. Emile at once ! not to mention It. But why do I waste the precious 1 time? exclaimed he, suddenly, must have everything safe below greund, ere that disappointed villain can return. He has met his deserts, for all the diamonds he hoped to secure have fallen into my possession. I need "I hope I will not Intrude upon the not assure you they will be saved for lady, observed the stranger In very you. Why cannot I take the things at the weak accents; If I were not so bewildered and helpless, I would try to door? It will save you much time, and the invalid is sound asleep. find other shelter. Perhaps it will be wise; the time is Nay, answered Lady Felicie, earnestly; i have stood too sorely in need flying rapidly. Come then, and throw of a friend myself, to be chary of my down the ladder, as fast as I bring the goods.' sympathy for others. She clambered after him to the upper He ought to lie down at once; he has received a very severe blow upon round, and stood In the secret doorway his head. 1 am thankful there are two watching him leaping away. He returned laden heavily. Lady Felicie compartments to my den. And as he spoke, Emile removed a gathered the lightest of the goods in board at one end of the small room, her arms, and ran down with them, and showed another Bmall chamber. returning speedily for the others. He did not hint for whom he had pre- They worked steadily for nearly an pared It, to wound afresh the daugh- hour. Then Emile came dashing back to the tree with a small trunk. ters grief. The last, thank Heaven! and it Is My men are bringing the needed Just in time. They have returned only spoils from the chateau; I must go and with reinforcements; I hear a terrific them bring In, for I bade them leave all at the edge erf the wood, not daring din around the chateau. I hope none of your friends are to trust even those brave fellows with the secret of this retreat. Can you, there? Oh, no; I charged them to disperse mademoiselle, bathe this poor sufferas rapidly as possible; there Is little ers head, while I am gone? And bending over her, he whispered: mischief they can do except What? except what! cried Felicie, Do not betray your name and rank. He believes you to be a lowly horn frightened at the uneasy look on his relative of mine; do not undeceive face; they will not desecrate the graves, surely? him. They are fiendish enough for anyFelicie obeyed him promptly. It was Indeed a blessed relief from torturing thing, but there is little to he gained thought to be doing anything. As the by such a course. They have fired the weary head sank feebly upon the pil- chateau. Lady Felicie. Will you take a low with a moan of anguish, she look at it, ere it falls, and not be disthe ewer cloth Into of the dipped water, tressed beyond my comforting? She caught her breath convulsively standing near, and began bathing it and stood a moment In shivertng sitenderly. She shuddered as she parted the silky, brown hair, and saw the lence, then held out her hand to him. He had closed the door of the tree, frightful contusion, where some terriand now took her hand tenderly, and ble blow had fallen. He does not look like a peasant, so led her forward to the edge of the delicately featured, with such a refined wood. The stars had paled in sudden look! mused she. I have never Been a finer face. It reminds me of some affright at the bright glare which rose princely youth I hare admired in pic- up from the turbulent scene below. The chateau was like one huge mantures. Is it, indeed, to be proved sion carven In glowing carbuncle. misof this to through terror, rc'gn guided FTance that her noblemen must Never had its symmetry and beauty be those of natures dubbing only? struck Lady Felicie so forcibly as now Where will it end? and what will when every arched window, and quaint become of me, wretched child that gable, and doomed porch was framed I am, to have survived all that I hold In a burning line of dazzling flame. It was so grand and beautiful a deal ? The last words were unconsciously sight, she forgot her personal Interest in its fate, and with hushed breathing spoken aloud. dearest one, responded the and entranced eye, she watched the Nay, voice of Emile, as he entered with his huge sea of fire waver to and fro, as If arms full. If this world were all, you playing with Its Victim; now sweeping might have cause for despair; but a broad daBh of red, seething flame when you remember that an angel across the lofty front, now rising up In mother waits for your approach to an- one vast Bplral column of dense smoke other and brighter world, surely you to the very sky. All at once It wavered the whole can pluck a rose even from the ashes of desolation; you are young, this great building seemed to give one direw'orld irav yet afford you the sweetest ful shudder at Its fate, and gather itand purest happiness. Be comforted, self up proudly to meet It One brief Instant Lady Felicie saw Languedoc my child toe calm and courageous. chateau before her eyes, every line disI will, my noble, generous friend, answered Felicie, with the first feeble tinct, every arch perfect the next It toppled, crumbled, disappeared. smile. She turned with a wild sob. Emile took her hand again, and CHAPTER XIII. FTER depositing without a word led her away toward his load, Emile the wood. Between It and them rose up a dark turned to look at the suffering youth. figure. Halt! thundered a hoarse voice, His eyes were and let me know who It is watching closed, and a wan circle of deathly the burning of the accursed nest of pallor was around aristocrats with grief. Emile set his teeth hard upon his the parted lips, through which the lip, and caught his companion up in his breath came fit- arms. She uttered no single cry of alarm. fully and hoarsely. 1 feared it, murmured Emile, anxAlready had she been taught the couriously; he will have a tedious illness, age of desperation. He ran swiftly as was possible with ' at the very lightest. It is very unfortunate, as I hoped to get away before such a burden, in the direction of the the general rising. But he deserves our chateau, and gained the shelter cf a tenderest care; he Is a noble youth. I thicket of trees; then as his pursuer met him first one of those wild nights dashed by them, he wheeled suddenly in Paris. The maddened crowd, surg- and made desperate efforts to reach the ing back from the palace of the king, wood again. He succeeded, and that was all; as were maltreating a poor old priest, who had ventured to rebuke them. the door of the hollow tree closed beThe young man, without hind them, the fierce spy came stuma weapon of any kind, sprang to the bling along In the path. Emile sat down his trembling comrescue of the poor wretch. I shall never forget the picture, as he stood panion, and put his ear to the side of in the middle of the street, the red the tree trunk. A volley of oaths escaped the baftorch-ligflaring ovpr his erect figure, fled wretch. as before the a placed priest shield, with his indignant, flashing eyes, his I They have cheated me again. heroic, defiant bearing. My heart went swear it must be some of the royalists, out to him at once. For a moment, too, or they would not have fled so desperhe held the crowd hack but, mon ately. Ill go back to Captain Pierre, Dleu! there were some demented crea- and well search the whole ground tures who could have slaughtered an over; there shant be a head left on innocent babe In its mother's arms one of their necka, If I can help It. And muttering other Inaudible anwithout a scruple. With a yell they leaped upon him. Then It was my turn athemas, he went away again. (TO SB COSTIXOBU.I to step forward. I had some power then, and they yielded. So from that A Squirrel's Capacious Month. time, I have watched the gallant felA Dummerston (Vt.) man wished to once never has he disaplow, and ascertain how many kernels of com a pointed my high expectations. WhAt chipmunk could carry In Its mouth. eay you, Lady Felicie, shall we let him Thirty kernels were placed on a board. die now? A squirrel carried them all away at No, no. cried the girl, eagerly; "It one time. Forty-fiv- e kernels were then Bhall be my task to nurse him back to and in position, chippy got away placed health. with all of them at that trial. Seventy Emile smiled quietly. kernels were put on the board for a If it was much satisfaction to know third trial. The little striped animal she would have an interesting employ- was beaten this time, but succeeded In ment to keep her mind from brooding carrying of the kernels Is over her misfortunes, and to beguile his mouth. Boston Herald. fifty-eig- i ht c TO SHOOT THE FAILS. HOW CAPTAIN FRANK KELLEN WILL TEMPT FATE. about In a centrifugal machine, then a huge thud as the cask strikes the pool below, followed by an easy roll, a sort of ride as on the ocean, and the resellers pick up the barrel and draw him out into the atmosphere. Imitating Webb's Fatal Daub la tha Sams llarrel lie Will CouRa Himself, SLICING CRIMINALS IN CHINA. and Helplessly Submit Himself to the Ad Atrocious Low Tbot Is Happily lluffstlugs. fouling luto IHurrporo. The horrible means used for Inflicting the extreme penalty of the law by tlie Chinese has been the subject of (Special Letter.) N the same barrel many articles all over the civilized in which Captain world, but of late little Las been heard Iaul Webb met his of these executions. It death Cupt. Frank seems, however, that although the InKellen is to shoot exorable iudiscretlonary law has passthe W 1 a m e tie ed out of existence In the more civilfalls. Ore. If he es- ized portion of the empire, It Is still capes with his life in effect in other localities, where the it will not be the condemned is put to death by tho fault of the falls. slicing process. A case has recently These latter, while come to light in the northern part of not so high or so China, and although efforts were made gorgeous as the Niagara, rush with al- to save the offender, they were unsucmost an equal force and are precipicessful and he was killed in the old-titated over a cliff rocky enough to tefit way literally butchered alive. the capacity of any barrel, even though The victim was a boy 11 years old, it be braced after the fashion of the who, while playing with a piece of vessel Fraiu with which Nansen re- metal attached to a ord, accidentally sisted the Ice parks of the Arctic. struck his mother on the head, her inKellen la a man of Borne fame as a jury proving fatal. By a peculiar Chiperformer of aquatic feats and this nese law the child who kills a parent, will not be his first experience In wilfully or by accident, must pay for shooting through rapids or bumping the act with his life. The child in this over falls. He calculates on pulling case was accordingly taken into custhrough without Injury. The safety tody at once, a mere form of trial was of the trip lies In tlie construction of gone through, and a verdict of guilty the barrel, which Is a huge thing eight found and sentence of death by the feet high and three feet in diameter. knife passed. The condemned is tied Its staves are almost as thick as upon a table similar to those used for scantling, and they are bound by powerful Iron hoops. Rocks that would succeed In breaking them would have to outdo a modem coast defense projectile. Long steel rods run from end to end of the barrel to strengthen it against blows on the heads, or drums. These rods and all the sides of the barrel are heavily padded. But, of course, against such Jars as those which come from rolling over the Willamette falls padding as thick as German feather beds would be in vain were It not for a sort of harness device in which the occupant is swung. By this means Captain Kellen will be kept free from SLICING THE VICTIM, sharp contact with the sides or ends surgical of the barrel, no matter how severe operations In this country. the shock from without. Captain Kel- The feet and hands are firmly tied tolen will be placed In the barrel, fasten- gether and he1 Is strapped to the board ed In the swinging harness, and then In Buch a manner that only a slight the top will be screwed on. For the movement can be made. He Is neither time being he will become In every hooded nor gagged, his persecutors lisway helpless against the fate, whatev- tening to his cries and watching the er it may be, that overtakes him In horrible facial contortions until death his dangerous experiment. Provision comes. A keen edged knife is used, for air Is one of the simplest devices the executioner first cutting away the of the barrel. An inch hole Is bored fleshy part of the body, beginning with in the center of each end. As the bar- the sides of the trunk, from which rel when on its side only draws a few large steaks are cut. Tlie abdomen Inches of water the ventilation is per- is next slashed, but in such a manner fect. When the barrel strikes on end that If there is still life in the body It can ship at best but a very little wa- the cutting will not prove fatal at ter through so small an aperture. Nat- once, the great object being to produce urally It returns to rest on its side Im- as much suffering as possible. The mediately after It strikes. The moet lower limbs are now stripped of flesh, terrifying danger of Captain Kellens followed by the arms. Few live after trip Is the possibility that the barrel the first few siloes have been taken will become lodged In some sink or away, but that makes no difference to niche in the rocks from which it can- the executioner, who finishes his fiendnot be extricated. If this unfortunate ish work until only the skeleton reresult Is avoided the barrel will doubt- mains. less be rescued at some point In the Three Queer TanaCMee Farmers. quieter waters below the falls. There is In Tennessee a family of Capt. Paul Webb met his death In this same barrel while attempting to three sisters which presents some of shoot a logging chute. He made the the most startling peculiarities imagmlBtake of entering the barrel without inable, said Mr. J. J. Kennedy, cf The three sisters live tobeing harnessed, trusting to the that state. strength of limb to hold him In posi- gether on a farm, their sole means of y tion. When down the chute subsistence, and work early and late a piece of sheeting caught one of the to earn a livelihood. Two of them work hoops and threw the barrel from the in the field; the third does the cooktrestle. With Webb helpless Inside of ing and other housework. There Is but one period of the year when any It. it bounded 500 feet down the mountain side, crushing against boulders member of the trio has anything to and stumps, and leaping over sharp say to any other member. All during declivities. When Webb was removed the winter, spring and summer they he was still alive, but his back, several go about their business with the seal ribs, and one or two limbs were brok- of silence on their lips. When fall en, and he died within a very few mo- comes and tlie crop Is harvested they ments. The sensation of plunging over break the silence, and then only to quarrel over the division of the proceeds. When each has succeeded in getting all that she thinks possible, silence reigns again until the next harvest time. The slaters, as you may Judge, have made a name for themselves. They are known far and near as the 'deaf and dumb triplets,' although such a title Is scarcely approWashington Post. priate. cold-blood- ed 1 1 half-wa- Kddim Jods-- Col iia a Word. They were discussing various thlngi In the clerk of the Supreme Court's office the other day, that Is, a party of judges were. Finally the talk drifted on to the subject coining words and phrasps. Mr. Justice Allen made the I coined a new word the remark: other day. It is t good one, I think, and perfectly natural, but I have been unable to find It lu any dictionary. Tbe word la enforcibility. The .lawyers present studied a while and finally all agreed that the word would be very useful, and fit certain cases exactly. Chief Justice Doster declared that h onre used a word that exactly described a certain case, anil It seemed to him WILLAMETTE FALLS. falls In such a manner is said by Cap- that it was by far the best term to aptain Kellen to be so thrilling and fas- ply. The word be used was obten-tlomeaning tbe act of obtaining. cinating as to be one of the easiest among all habits of dangerous feats Judge Doster finally discovered the to acquire. The plunge lasts but a word in a rare old book on interstate second; there la a quick suction of law. Topeka Capital. air from one vent to another of the Life Is a short a.'sslon devoted to barrel; there are some swift revolutions as if one were being whirled business. f n, ed |