Eureka Reporter | 1913-08-15 | Page 6 | The Purchase Price; or the Cause of Compromise

THE PURCHASE PRICE 0 OR THE CAUSE OF compromise by EMERSON HOUGH copyright HIO 1910 by emerson hough SYNOPSIS josephine countess st auban from washington by captain carlisle act ing on government order Is with him on an ohio river steamboat steam boit they are ap rp preached by barville War ville dunwody a mis state senator the countess in a note asks dunwody for aid she Is posing as carlisle a 8 sec see detary ca lisle plays cards with dun and others and loses the two men play cards tor for custody of josephine dunwody wins and carlisle leaves the boat dunwody confronts jose phine the missourian Missour lan infatuated with jose phine declares he will take her to his home against her will the boat Is boa d ed by a party of recaptured slave slaves owned by judge clayton a passenger dunwody engages an overseer to kid gap ap josephine the cabinet discusses discus sea jo bephine as a dangerous abolitionist and decides to ask an opposition statesman to take her away should she return tall woods dunwody a home josephine with her maid jeanne and dunwody arrives at Tal lwoods he a as signs sally an old colored woman to wait on her she finds old faded women 8 garments in her room and asks eleazer an old brench trapper to help her to escape hearing a sound at her door at night i ehe she tries to flee and falls from a window josephine a arm Is broken it Is set by dr jamieson Jam leson in the night she hears queer crying Tall Tal wooda lwoods la Is visited by friends of dunwody the missourians Missour lans have a fight with a party of i rort orthea heiners ners who have taken up and are guarding lily a runaway slave slays the party Is commanded by carlisle carlisle and hia his lieutenant kammerer are taken prisoners to Tal Ta lwoods dun breaks a lee leg injured in the fight josephine assumes command at tall woods and releases kammerer and car lisle on parole eleazer a son hector of st genevieve Genev leve mo me visits Tal lwoods and la is attracted by jeanne Jose josephine phInes s maid mall with josephides Jose phines nursing dunwody re covers he ile makes a will leaving every thing to her she tiles to convert dunwody to the tree free foil moll cause hector asks jeanne to marry him jeanne and hector are married and lily becomes josephine Jose phines s maid the countess leaves Tal Tall lwoods wooda in washing ton she confers with a hungarian delaga lion tion and meets carlisle again continued from last week CHAPTER XIII J the way of a ma d ECTOR had not tarried a see H ond end week at fit Tal lwoods before offering his hand and his cooper shop to jeanne with gallic caution she made delicate in of hector lector s father as to the yearly returns and probable future of the cooperage business at st gene vieve as to the desirability of the sur rounding country upon which the UJ 5 si 1063 3 raus tb ase ft aown ow n fortunes all these matters mallers met her ampro approval at NN I 1 ei defoi e the air ot of jeanne became tinged with witha a certain lofty condescension in her own heart she trembled now not so much aa as to 1 er aniu wisdom or her own future but as to the meeting which must be bad bet between een herself and hei bet mistress Zeal jeanne lle dunan led josephine one d daiy diy ay iy uha aie ate you away so much when I 1 desire you I 1 hive it ive often seen you and that young man yonder in very dose close conati s atlon you must hae ha e a care madame expostulated jeanne it Is nothing I 1 assure you perhaps but it Is of such nothings that troubles sometimes ome tell me what has this young man said to couo but he has slid wild miny things thing cadime A for instance that vou toll PI e are him that yet vo i are beautiful thit vou you hive a voice and find hinl it to I 1 a turn of the arm hit thit aon ou hare have the m minner inner firl pirl e jeanne Is it not so but yes ma calime ignie and indeed more I 1 euid th thit it tom boing g man of excellent judgment of most discriminating taste klao iso he Is of an excellent cooper coo ige business in st t genvieve yonder Moie I 1 find the produce of the grape in this country to increase In creise year ly so that the I 1 1 business seems to be of a pertain certain future madame his 1 corn com inanity Is 19 well founded the oldest in this i of the lalley he 14 I 1 young you ng be has no entanglements at least so fir as its I 1 dl decover hoier he ile has an excellent home his old mother IL it well madame one might do worse norse so then a coo pertie business so promising as thit jeanne seems more desirable thin tb in my own poor employ ment you hive no regard for your d ity to one w ho has cared for you I 1 suppose you desert me precisely at the time mv own affairs require my presence in washington but madame why washington Is that our home V hat actual home has madame on the face of the earth ah heaven were ere only it possible thit this i man were to be considered onside red this place so large so beautiful TSO so in need of a mistress to control it madame says she was carried away against her tier will all uy ily life have I 1 dreamed have bave I 1 hoped that some time a man roan should steal me ile to carry me away to some place u such as this and to make love of such j a EL warmness warin nebs jeanne I 1 forbid you to continue fhe eyes of the mistress had a danger BUS ous sparcle sparl ie I 1 obey madame I 1 am silent but isten tow now comes this hector far i mote mole bold and determined than this mr that assassin that brute began but hesitated ah ilee tor for has not hesitated seeing thit he be would in any case possess myself would carry me away I 1 yielded but with honor and grace madame you would forsake me madame I 1 confess sometimes in my heart there comes a desire for a home for a place where one may abide where one may cease to wander wonder I 1 josephine eat bat silent for a moment in what direction might she herself now turn ev eiven en for the humblest friend frie nd ship and where a as any borne home now for her the recreant maid saw something of her mistress feeling upon her fice madame she exclaimed falling upon her knees in consternation to think I 1 wo lid ild desert yon you in my heart re resides ides nothing but loyalty tor for you how now could you doubt but josephine Joseph rile was wise in I 1 her ier own way that night jeanne kissed her hand dutifully i et the i deiv ei v next morn luf in the Ite sence of lily with rith abs tears she admitted that bhe she had decided to leave bei betrice rice no lorer lo 10 feer to be beJ betm einie e but bout aliu IM hector I 1 lounder couii ler but ma cadaine d ame is Id leanne still tear ful tut after a stief lit ence aiom the room althou although h I 1 leae leale now foi fol st bt geneviee Gen evlee before the I 1 blest I 1 shall not see madame go without at ten dalle bee I 1 hae haie ed or of thia this lily 1 lerson erson if abe could tale cenice with madame madaie plans soon to leburn to the east thia this uly illy then ma am I 1 want to work for you broke out I 1 lly suddenly stretching out her hands I 1 do want to g with you I 1 calu t go back hone hon e I 1 ld d only run away again tl TI ey d have to kill lill me some swift arithmetic was pissing ug J se phines s iiii luond nd at the time here then was wad concrete oj 01 port unity to bet set in practice pr atice son e of her tt ti corles lily would you like to come with me as my maid she demanded could you iou learn do aou ou think in lit case I 1 should need you of cose I 1 could learn ma am id I 1 d do my very best etwas thus that it was agre agreed e d with small preliminary that on the nest next e she waved a hand in farewell morning Tall Tal wooda lwoods should lose three of its late tenants josephin Joa ephin ventured to inquire of dunwody le te garding lily take her if it you like slid sald be he brusque ly go goon on lily if you want to ibis I 1 his time you 11 let et shut of us I 1 reckon and we 11 get shut of you I 1 hope you 11 never come a back th s time you nave have made trouble enough already thus then on the day of depasture depa iture josephine st abbau found herself standing before her minor it was not an unlovely image which she elbe saw there in soine some woman a fassl non as aisted by jeanne s last tearful services and the clumsy art of lily bi ua e b hid bid id managed a garbing different from front that of her first arrival at this place the lines of her excellent escelle ut figure now were wholly shown in this costume of gold en brown which bhe she had lese iese ived to ta the last she mide a fit wholly to fill the eyes ees of the master of tall woods wl wi en ell he be came to tell her the coach was ready for the journey to st genevieve but he be made no comment not daran daring ile was calm now she saw he had bad himself well in band hand ills face was as pale and grave well liell she dually finally as the gleat coach dhove around to the door 1 I sup pose I 1 am to say goodby good by just walk with you down the road he answered we walked up it once together they followed fol lovied on after the coath had passed down the d inen heway ay dunwody now dud and silent his head dropped his hands behind h in until the carriage pulled up and wilted w cited at the end of the shut in at the lower end of the valley jobea hine beisell remained silent as nell ell bit as the turn of the load toad approached iahlo bould cut off on the view of she turned 1 im pul abely and aed a hind in fare well the get gestie it e and looked at her quickly that 4 ui lit e of you said be he mighty eke nice in some new sort of half al ashment she found no immediate reply he ile left her then and walked steadily dlly dily back bak up the dill en a saving ig in fare well and not once looking hick biek I 1 or a time she followed him with her gaze a strange sinking nt at her heart of which she was ash aimed which gave her alike surprise and sudden u adden fear something was different now n was as it the loss of jeanne it was a much abashed and still tear ful though not a rei rel enfant leanne jeanne who embraced her mih after the simple little wedding of leanne jeanne and hector when they had to the wedding feast but come slid jeanne behold mv my new home Is ft t not de 9 chis is the mother of hector mid line tine and this ah ab this ls Is the home of hector lector and myself tonight also it is 3 ours I 1 im led NI fidime she added in 1 in it side athile bile I 1 illy liv stu p 1 ai d awk ill 11 I 1 i s f 1 I e time out of the tile w n IT v I 1 in ut lit be r to think of yo r gull g a v ay with bit tint ill it filpos sible fill nig 9 gilie the tl it cre re to c pile tie foi yo i almost were it not for hector ind for this it ne geould raould vou ton tile he lie I t r als 1 should folet all and go 0 with you even yet TP tomorrow morrow I 1 shall go with you to the b boat at but alas I 1 the morning leanne had again forgotten meantime the ahe storm dreaded as so immediate ba by the administration at A abe of a I 1 ew toli political cartr party born of the eniet t over the tile shively question had spent its foice and temporarily temporarily long since rout mut away in the distance leaving scarce a trace behind it on the political baky the strained compi omiNe held either neither war nor a new baity came as yet disunion was not yet openly at tempted moreover there was a dellb erate intent upon an era of good feel feet ing whig and democrat alike foicey themselves ies to settle down into the be lief that peace had come if men were viere slaves why let them be in this era of arrested activities the energies of a restless 1 col eo ie le turned oth for interest to belleve the monotony of al at stagnation torn lar antei tion was i ow fill guined tied toward the of hungary instant inter filter est attached to the news that a huu hall garian committee ommittee of inquiry had land ed upon our shot eq N bilth ith the put I 1 ose of investigating a possible invitation our republic to the hungarian patriot kossuth then in beille lu in luikey the leader of this mission was gen ell era I 1 an officer of the army of hungary who villo with him a suit of some u dozen persons these late in the winter of 1850 jl ar rived at X washington and found qu ir of a at magnificent sort in one of the 11 dore ore i prominent romi nent hotels of the national capitti the first formal action of the hun garian committee took the share e of a return reception to be held beld in the hotel I 1 parlors arbors the imitations liberal as thy were were sought tor for quite in excess of the auprly the tor for mr air Nv webster ebster our secretary of state had not hesitated to write in most determined fashion to the hulsemann regarding the ous austrian demands upon our goy gov none the less was much in a funk regarding european obligations not wishing to offend the popular fancy and not daring to tale decisive stand the usual compromise was made A long suffering officer of the navy with his wife and one or two other ladles was dispatched quasi officially to lend color to the occasion such splendor as could be arranged had been provided for the setting of this event A hungarian oi chestra with these commissioners discoursed its peculiar music beyond a screen of palms and bowers coners one of the great parlors had leen been prepared for those of the young who could not resist the temptation to dince at the head of the little line of these visitors now themselves in effect hosts stood the old hungarian general itin an officer over six Is feet in height with white hilr mir h and wide white must actis a distinguished figure in the brilliant hungarian uniform those of ills staff near by added additional vividness to the picture the ladies ladles of the party half of whom spoke english were costumed quite in keeping and en delored deai ored by the graciousness of their manner to add to the good impression slon already formed of their more brilliant companions the doors had not been beer opened for a halt half hour before the rooms were packed with a struggling miss of h all eager to grasp he hind of the representative of hun fary and of the members of bis his corn com pony patriotism liberty brotherly love were in the speech of all it was at about ts time that there entered at the doo near th the he held heid id of INE the receiving line a young W botnan an tor for the time apparently quite unattended she was brilliantly robed with jewels jewel flashing at neck and clad like a it queen and looking one there were many in washington social circles who knew by bight sight or by le leput atlon josephine countess st auban no longer than six months ago pronounced by one journal of the capital to be the most beautiful and the most dangerous woman in wash ington yet even the most hostile ot of these suddenly suspended judgment as they baw saw her advance met now by that of the old hungarian general himself countess my dear child at last yon you are here he exclaimed taking her by the hand he led her back to the line ilde of his official company volleying rapid exclamations in his native tongue lou ion left us at length length exclaimed the old general politely speaking in his ills best english since others were bound s to be heir beir ir V v here yo i had gone eve ipe did not I 1 1 now it was as though the beav ens eus had opened see then sir he addressed the daval officer who stood near at hand the countess Coun tesi st aubin auban was one of the most important mem mein bers of our little company she was to come in advance of us vi A ho also are in advance of a greater number I 1 or a time we heard from her then all was silent she had disappeared but now at last my dear countess you are here I 1 social and journalistic washington then and there begged a sudden though silent pardon of the countess st auban A few journal ests left the room quickly an of the austrian Austri ap Je gatlon also hurriedly took his leave I 1 have been visiting some of the more remote parts of this country replied she in een enen