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Show AFITTO' BY gARY gEVEREUX ILLUSTRATIONS BY DON C. WILSON Armn &Q3 & CV WITH - CHAPTER XIX. the week had ended the lack Petrel' filled her aalls for with Grelolre'a parting worda of advice repeating themaelvea In ears: "Wind np your affaire la Louisiana, non ami, and do aa the emperor return to France, and aaaume your own name and rank. So back to Louisiana he Bailed, with his mind in a turmoil that gave unwonted austerity to his manner, and awed his crew into much speculation. The fever of his first Impulse having now abated, he began to upbraid himself for having left Pierre, and wondered if anything evil might have befallen his foster-brotheDay by day, as the "Black Petrel drew nearer to Baratarla, he kept himself busy by querying as to what, if any, changes would be found there, and as to what progress the war had made. Louisiana, and especially New Orleans, must, in his Judgment, be destined to bear a share in the conflict, even though this might not be until the eleventh hour; for the possession of the Mississippi and its valley had. for many years, been a dream of Orest Britain's ambition. Night and day, thinking matters over, he resolved that his next step would be to gather what he might of men and shipping and wealth, and, in the hope of wiping all stigma from his name, offer these to the Governor of Louisiana, for use In warring against the English. And the possibility of this opportunity being afforded him with Its reward a pardon for himself and men, covering all past offenses the rehabilitation of himself before his world, made his blood tingle. This accomplished, he would return to France, assume his father's name and rank, and stand ready to serve the emperor. And the Island Rose, how had she been faring all this time, and what, amid the changed conditions he was 3 Bar-atarl- a, La-fltt- de-air- r. "Missed thee! Aye, ,n every way, aa I ever dQ when we are aparL But somehow it was a taste worse this time, perhaps because thon wert away in France, where, as thou hast said, I am growing homesick to go. "And, as I have also said, we will go together, and soon. We will return to Languedoc, thou and I, Pierre, and see the old gardens, and roam In the park, and try to be boys once more. The words ended with a Joyous laugh. "And read of De Soto, and Pirarro, added and the tales of Louisiana? Pierre interrogatively, a curious sadness touching his voice. "Nay, Indeed not, replied Jean, sobering at once. We have lived too many practical chapters of a like sort, my Pierre, to ever again enjoy the old book. "And the emperor, said Pierre irrelevantly; "to think of his keeping the little box of papers for thee! "Yet it was like him to do such a thing, asserted Jean, with vibrant tone and glowing face. "Ah, if but he were back in France, and free from those cursed English! "Aye, Pierre affirmed, a growl The English sounding In his voice. there on Elba, their power behind the throne of France, and their ships sneaking in here to snatch at Louisiana and the Mississippi. Cursed English, say L From what Pierre told him that night, Jean Lafltte knew, as clearly as though he had remained at Bara-tarlall that had transpired since his departure. This had been shortly after Oen. Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the battle called Tohope-kah- , a disaster that broke their power. and compelled the English to cease reckoning upon them as allies. And after this signal victory Oen. Jackson had been given command of the Seventh military district, which included the State of Louisiana. It was now very evident that New leans that he is mad :or love ef Ike Spanish girl. And she? inquired Jean eanaleeely, as he patted the head of a hound crouched by hla chair. Pierre shrugged his broad shoulders. She Is a woman; who, therefore may say what she thinks, or will door not do? Jean laughed as he knocked th ashes from his cigar. Thou hast a poor opinion of th fair ones, my Pierre. Have 1? If so, it was thysell taught me the lesson. The laughing face sobered at once, and a troubled look came into the eyes fixed upon Pierres ones. Bay you, Pierre, that I taught yon any such lesson? Aye, that you have, with your scon of women and their ways. Seeing through your eyes, I long ago learned to look upon women as but snares, to love whom brings mischief and the ruin of a man's heart. , . Pierre wondered at the gentleness d! the tone that answered. If ever 1 taught you such a thing, I taught, unknowingly, something I never believed myself; for I think a true woman is a thing to reverence as the saints, and that love in a man's life Is like He stopped short, and his dark face took a dreaming look aa he gazed into the Mistress Rosemary Allyn By M1LL1CENT Oayyileht, I KM, CHAPTER V Gil being wrapped by LUCAS-LINCOL- Continued. in his thoughts and his pipe, I bethought me of the letter given me by my father. I had been so busy getting ready and occupied with one thing and another that I had barely read it It had a great Interest for me. I had placed it in an envelope, sealed, and marked it with the word "Private. Then I had put it carefully away In an inside pocket of my coat Some man possibly he might be dead when he wrote those few words on that slip of paper committed as foul a crime aa any in the category of sins. Should I ever run him down, and he be living, I would remember my father and my band should not fall lightly. I wondered if perchance there was anything about the paper overlooked by which the perpetrator might be discovered. I would take it out again and examine it more closely minutely. 1 put my hand into my pocket, which was a deep one; It was empty, void as the air. I gasped with astonishment. Ah! no doubt heedlessly I had changed it to another pocket. I began a search for it No use, it was gone I reined up my horse. Gil came riding back. "What is it? he asked. "My God! I exclaimed, I have lost 1 1 1 half-mocki- fire. E. MANN OCX at My elastic nature rebounded once. I Jumped up and hugged him. You are a Jewel of the first water, Where did you find it?" Gil, I cried. Before he could answer I added: "But first before you begin let me look to that cut You are hurt. "Not much. I left those behind hurt worse, he answered,, dabbing his wound with a napkin.' "It will soon heal. Yes, I found the paper without much trouble following the clue I had. You remember at the White Swan, when Jock brought In your coat brushed and dried he laid it down on a chair. In your eagerness to see the ladles into their magenta colored coach you did not put it on until you returned to the room after their departure. I also went out, but I came back again to see pretty Alice Jump, rather too suspiciously, quick away from your coat when she heard me, and color over her pretty Lyn-so- tiqiea Its original length before we should reach our biding place, but, God willing, we hoped to hear the bells of Bow church ring out their evening chime. We had been In the saddle all night, and I was galled from riding in spite of the many ways I had of easing myself. I was now riding with my lege hanging over one side as I had seen market men do to balance the weight of their horses. It was yet early in the morning, the Gil bedew was on the gossamer. guiled those last hours of the early morn with reminiscences of the times he bad had in London, that hotbed of iniquity. The road had been for miles through a forest tract where the trees were so dense that, although the sun shone brightly, splashes of light were seen only in places. We came out abruptly into the open space. So clean cut was the division, it was as if a giant's knife had separated the woods from the open country. We were upon an elevation and looking down (we could see aa soon as our eyes became accustomed to the glare) great lengths of rolling heath and hill, while the tapering road wound in and out like the delicate tracery on a piece of tapestry, t The boastings were hardly from his mouth, when be added: "Hasten, there is trouble ahead! and put spurn to his horse. I knew from his exclamation that his piercing eyes had caught sight of an object my more obtuse ones had not yet seen; what I was not long in finding out going at the pace we were. We kept to the sides of the road so that the noise of the horses' feet coming on the turf should not be heard. When we had ridden near enough, we stopped in the sheltering shade of a clump of trees. It hid us from view. To the side of the road a post coach was standing on the two wheels of one side. The other two were in the air looking woefully out of place. The six horses plunged and trembled. At their heads were masked men highwaymen bold fellows, too, to be. about their business in so open a spot on the countrys face. Not the Magenta colored coach, After a short silence he continued, The lack of lore in a man's life is face. When you said that something like a world without sunshine, or a was gone, I remembered the incident; lamp without oil without light And and as I had not forgotten the other to live always in darkness would make and the other paper well, wommaid life little worth the living. are en great imitators, but poor stratePierre had been staring at him, and gists. I ran them down about five as he stared his slumbering wits awakmiles from the inn. I told her in a ened. few words, but to the point, to give In a groping but certain way, he beup what she had stolen or be taken gan to rightly suspect the possible back to the constable, who, no doubt, cause of a hitherto puzzling change he was quite ready to resume operations , had noticed In bis .and, my letter! where they had been cut off, and this satisfied as to this, he now blurted nut Letter? he repeated, and looked time she could come in for her share ean, my brother, tell me who ' Is a if he thought me daft "Why thrash since she had winked at a prisoners the you love? over the same ground? If the girl escape. She cried she My God; Jean started, and his brows con' who stole the paper is not to be found, these women! they are born to cajole racted into a frown. and you want the lady for a bride, poor men till they get what they want, "Thou art not angry with me, .that I why well see what force can do. and then the devil may take you for a asked? Devil take that piece of paper, I thank you. The word was repeated muttered in Angry! my distress; '118 of the "Yes, yes, what then? I asked lm vith a soft laugh, as if the supposition letter given me by my father I am patiently. were too absurd to call for refutation speaking. "The crying wouldnt down a bit-pa- per 'And she loves thee in return? he said, and his guttural or Jail, said I, he continued, ejaculated Gil. Pierre ventured, encouraged by the utterance was expressive of many Then she gave it up and I read her In the stillness of the atmosphere laugh. a lesson on woman, and womans grat- we heard the high clear thread Jean shook his head, and a blttei things. of a is "It of the greatest Importance, itude. 8he told me this you must sadness touched the still smiling lips voice. patrician 'Not love thee!" exclaimed Pierre, Gil, I said; in fact, on it hangs the take It for what it is worth; I believe "Pray, good sir, go easy It said. --TIs Then she must . be reason Lord Waters sends me to Lon- - no woman. She had been bought by not so I have heard it said that incredulously. blind, or a fool, he added, in suddec gentlemen who take to the road are wrath. wont to treat the gentler sex. They Neither the one nor the other, my use them courteously, I assure you. Pierre, Jean answered, as he ' rose Your pardon, Madame, answered from bis chair. "1 had never thought a deeply musical voice. It came from to ask her love, nor knew that I loved the rogue standing by the coach door. her, when, by accident, she discovered Allow me. Only one moment shall that I was the terrible pirate, Lafltte, I inconvenience you, for which 1 and shrank from me as if I had been again crave pardon." the plague, or death itself. That was With that the scamp helped the I not have and long ago; since laid out of the coach and proceeded lady eyes on her. to search it There was a world of suppressed 'Ah, I see, she said sarcastically, passion sounding underneath the ring are truly one of those gallant "you s of mookery voice,: and PievroX ones who lighten the purses of way saw his band tremble as he laid his farers. arm against the stone support of the "By my faith, said he, "some need chimney and looked down into the emrelieving. bers. "Thats aa.jt may tie? she retorted. Pierre now rose and tossed his cigar Men 'must take the chances of war. into the fireplace, appearing to think care only where it affects myself. there was nothing more to be said d Now if you would imitate that But he turned quickly to Jean as the Claude Duval, highwayman, foster-brother's latter, laying a hand upon his you would request the honor of a shoulder, added, Yoa know dance on the green, and in payfor the present let my secret, Pierre; ment She gave a suggestive shrug it rest where it is, and give no heed and wave of her hand. Then she liftas to who she is. I may yet win her; ed her dress in one hand to show her "Ah, I see, she said, sarcastically. and I may not If I do, then you snail feet, and most wantonly took a few know her, and you will love her; of don. Without it, why I might as well the enemy. Sir Raoul Dwight He In the minuet Her manner I I God! assured. feel knew her, no doubt, as pretty Alice steps that go )iack to Long Haut My was bewitching. Well you may, my Jean, If she is am afraid it will be the death of him." Lynson. It was for him she was to (To be continued.) dear to thee; for that she must now be Taken in again," muttered Gil, get a paper you had hidden on your to me." Such had been her object "and by petticoats. person. THE ROLL IN THE ROLL. What do you mean? 1 demanded when she left him yesterday, but on "Aye; and God bless thee for a true other self, said Jean, grasping the severely. "This is no time for Jok- the way to the inn she had fallen in "That I could know, ing." other's hand. with the constable, who had Just ar- True Use of the Pompadour Disclosed without the telling. 8UU it is pleasIn' a Railroad Dining Car. "Ride on and put up at the Golden rested her husband, Martin Toms. All ant to hear thee say it I will clear Acorn, he retorted. See that there thought of the paper was forgotten in We live to learn, said the travelmy name, Pierre thine and mine; is another horse awaiting for me. I the greater calamity, until we hap- ing man. For the past four or five that must be first. After that we will be back in five hours. pened in at the White Swan. She said years I have admired the pompadour shall see. 1 had better go with you; two pairs that if she had known that we were style of dressing woman's hair; but (To be continued.) of eyes are better than one. Anyway, going to be so kind to her she would until recently it had never occurred without the paper I can accomplish not have taken the paper for all the to me that this mode of arranging DRE88 OF THE JUNGLE LADY. Raoul Dwights in the world. You un- the locks might possess practical nothing, I returned dolefully. No, if one isnt enough, two will be derstand she said this, I but repeat utility as well. I can attend her words. She added with more blub8lmple Costume Sufficient for Her no better, he replied. "I was in the diner of a train about Savage Life. to the business. If I am not successbering that after she left the an hour out of Chicago when I perThe low caste Siamese of the Jungle ful we can then both go back home. inn, instead of keeping to the main ceived a particularly stylish brunette have few wants, and live like animals, road she had branched off to with a girl friend sitting at the table Be sure the horses are in good .condifruits and wild rice, tion ready to start upon my return. eating chiefly Trefford, where she was to meet Just ahead of me. What especially which they raise in small cleared So saying he turned his horse's head Raoul Dwights man. He was waiting caught my eye was the mass of beauspots, wherever they happen to tem- and went back over the road that we for her. She gave him the paper. He tiful hair piled up on that girls head. porarily settle. Like the Karens, the had Just come. the arrangement of it was While opened it, and then he damned her for Jungle people of Burma, they are alThere was an old grandfather's a fool and threw it back at her." entirely becoming to the comely ways on the move, and in common clock standing in the corner of the tap I see. Sir Raoul Dwight had in young woman, yet Ill venture to say with all low caste Siamese are petty room where I sat moodily waiting. some way learned that we were to go that her pompadour rose to the height thieves of an incurable propensity. When the clock ahould strike seven over this road to London, I said. He of some eight Inches from the foreYet they are obedient servile to an the five hours given Gil by himself for thought to gain the promise of mar- head. unpleasant degree for white blood. the accomplishing of his purpose riage. Strange he didn't come after "The two young women had about Thqy manufacture nothing rave crud finished their dinner when I entered I assure you I had no It himself. . would be up. est domestic household necessities Gil mused. Presently he said aprop- the car and were fumbling in their I had carelessly lost the paper and personal ornaments from bamboo. hope; this time the rain and os of nothing, Pretty Alice Lynson" purses for the wherewithal to pay for and on the way Clothes are of slight consequence. On the mud had blotted it out of all re- by her indiscretion having started him the meal. Between them they manthe Jungle edge they go uncovered, to the thing it had been. on his favorite theme women: aged to rake up some 56 cents. men and women, above the waist, tbe semblance to send upon a stunning Well, observed the Woman was like a discreet is a person I of sparkling glass panung reaching within four Inches of serious mission. . I was loading myself with the big pompadour, Tt brunette as feel wine, you though you could the knee; but deep in the Jungle they with contumely. The clock began to never get enough, but God! how heavy looks like I shall have to go into my are practically naked. riang the hour. I started (although they both pall upon you next day. rolL Their single implement is a And with that the glorious creature I had on an average glanced at that Landlord, your bill. Come, let us be as used butcherlike knife, removed her hat, ran her finsince enter- off." minutes five calmly dock every as weapon (together with a the mass of dusky hair and looked from through But gers up you have not told me how you ing the tap room), wood spear) and Industrially in fash and fished out a bundle of money. had where eyes received my the log that him. blazing I scratch?" asked ionlng out of the ubiquitous bamboo There, she exclaimed when the A fierceness came over his eye. their ornaments, their buckets, their been fixed in thought white my ears 1 have a sound of the were strained for I fell in with the constable's fel- operation had been completed, rope, their string, their houses and in my money IL I always carry my the food receptacles which taka the horse's hoofs clattering on the brick lows, he replied to the point, "and hair when so much Its traveling. Im courtyard. they recognized me. They were complace of pots and pans and plates. safer than any other way.' The door opened and showed me Gil ing from housing the constable. Nearly all of the Jungle folk on both his in I the wish had "I been a with yon, I said hallway lighting line tattoo standing sides of the of de- "It was too three against Gotham's Child Labor Evils. the thigh, sometimes from knee to pipe. Gil, in a state little short ' clothes half torn from one. Robert Hunter, the wealthy head hip, more often from the knee to only moralisation ; It was brief. It I trussed them worker of the university settlement in six inches above. The design may be off him, and a wound in his head from blood flowed. I was too before, I finished my work by carbon New York city, declares that despite a turtle, or the tiger which the done elaborately, but the one most crushed to do aught but gaze at him. adoelng them now, he said, and the child labor law, and undetected by not be- laughed. the labor inspectors, there is one facfrequently seen, and the simplest. Is a Hla condition certainly did was that success It impossible sort of lace or fringe pattern In the speak tory in which are at work S00 children CHAPTER IX. under 14 years of age. In another middle of the thigh, or Just below the he could have found it. He walked over to where I sat and y S years of' factory, he adds, one knee, like a garter. The women do A World Worn Beauty. not tattoo, believing in beauty un- laid a paper on the table at age was employed; bis sister, at the Only one days Journey from Lon age of 7, and a younger brother, 4 adorned; heaven knows they need I picked it up. It .was the paper without doubt, minus the envelope, perfect- don! A day I felt that for me would yean old, earning 19 cents a day. In adornment- - Outing. girl of 3 wav st work. stretrh itself out even unto twelve another nl-ly dry, only a little rrumnled foster-brother- Ah-h-- - in-M- . world-renowne- "You know my secret, Pierre; for the present let it rest mapping out for himself, would be her i Orleans was to be attacked as soon as could concentrate a suf, the English place? and The remembrance of the last time ficient force for that purpose; he had seen her, with her girlish face Gov. Claiborne had called a session of and form manifesting such shrinking the legislature, besides taking all other terror of him, had its sorrow now measures in his power toward raising lightened by the hope, so strong in his means for defense. But the legislators beart, that he would be able to redeem were slow to cooperate with him; and the same malcontents whose scheming himself in her estimation. The Black Petrel," keeping a sharp had already wrought such harm to lookout for English vessels, stole into Louisiana were using all possible the Oulf of Mexico, and sped across it. means to neutralise the governor's efThen, turning to the east and north, forts. Lafltte made for the western shore of As Lafltte listened to ail this, he Grande Terre and the harbor of Bara-tarlcongratulated himself anew that the Black Petrel" lay anchored where, in due time, the brigansafely tine dropped anchor. before Grande Terre, lie felt also that It was the evening of Lafittes ar- no time could have been more ausrival. lie and Pierre were alone to- picious for making the offer he pro gether. and, being unable to count up- posed to lay before the governor, an on unlimited privacy, they seated offer of service by himself and his themselves for a full talk and compar- followers, in consideration of pardon ison of notes Jean to give Pierre the for all past misdeeds, whether actual particulars of his recent trip, and to or alleged. hear from him an account of the hapWhen he voiced these thoughts and penings at Barataria and New Orleans. plans to Pierre, the latter agreed unwith you "I wish I might have been reservedly; and both men were conin Toulon," Pierre said, with what fident of their ability to obtain the acI have a longing sounded like a sigh. quiescence of their followers. to see France again before I die." But think inquired the Before you die! repeated Jean, more cautiousyou. Jean, there Is not Pierre, tone. his in a slight touch of testiness reason to doubt if Gov. Claiborne acOne would ihus? talk do you Why at least in cept our offer? I do not wish to dampthink you were three-scoren thy ardor; but we must remember stead of a stalwart giant of half those the threats" he has made against the half and he playfully, laughel, years; a, Baratarians. There was no answering smile on Pierre's face, which was again turned to the fire. But after a momentary silence he said, abstractedly, as if thinking aloud, I cannot give a good reason for it, but there has of late been something like a conviction growing upon me that I have not mneh longer to live. Perhaps and he raised his eyes to Jean's wondering face "it is nothing more than that I am homesick. "We will wind np our affairs here and go to France, declared Jean deRouse thyself. Pierre, and cisively. in such a fashion. more no speak What nonsense! thou, after all the dangers we have met and overcome together, to have such a premonition! I think, my brother," and ithe tone brought a gratified sparkle to the other man's eyes, "that thou hast missed me". He surely will not make the mistake of refusing our services in such an emergency at a time when every man ablqjo bear a gun will be sorely reeded in New Orleans, was Jeans rnqfllent reply; and Pierre raised no more doubts that night. Among the other items of information he had given (and which, although of slight interest to himself were otherwise to his listener), was that Count de had, at La Roche's invitation, closed his house In New Orleans, and gone with his granddaughter for a visit to the former's plantation, I.a Tete des Eaux, near the bead of Bayou Bienvenu; also that La Roche had taken this occasion to persuade his ward, the Senorlta Lazalie, to Join his house party. He is now a general In the state militia, Pierre added; and" with it Is common talk in New Or laugh Cazc-nea- . . long-blade- path-make- r, Sfam-Burm- one-side- d much-dreade- my-righ- ee t |