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Show COUCHEi (Continued From Our Last Issue.) i Andre-Louis observed tho ashon pallor pal-lor that now overspread the face of bis opponent "I think you begin to realize mon sleur. what Philippe de Vllmorin must have felt that day at Gavrlllnc. I desired de-sired that you should first do so Since that io accomplished, why here's to make an end"" He went In with lightning rapidity. For a moment his point seemed to La Tour d'Azyr to bo everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in slxte. Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease io lunge in tierce. He drove his point to transfix trans-fix his opponent whom a series of calculated cal-culated disengages uncovered In that line. But to his amazement and oha grtn La Tour d'Azyr parried tho s'roko: infinitely more to his chagrin' La Tour parried it just too late Had he completely parried it, all would yet: have been well But striking the blade! In tho last fraction of a second, tho Marquis deflected the point from the line of his body, yet not so completely but that a couple of feel of that hard-driven hard-driven Rteol tore through the muscles of his sword-arm. To tho seconds none of these details de-tails had been visible. All that they had seen had been a swift whirl of flashing blades, and then Andi'e-Louie stretched almost to the ground in an upward lungo that nad pierced the Marquis' right arm Just below the The sword fell from the suddenly reaxed grip of La Tour d'Azyr's fingers, fin-gers, which had been rendered pow erless, and he stood now disarmed, his Hp in his teeth, his face white, his chest heaving, before his opponent, oppo-nent, who had at once recovered. With the blood-tinged tip of his sword resting rest-ing on the ground. Andre Louis surveyed sur-veyed him grimly, as we survey the prey that through our own clumsiness has escaped us at the last moment. In the Assembly and in th newspapers news-papers this might be hailed as another victory for the Paladin of the Third Estate; only himself could know the extent and the bitterness of the failure. Anuie-L-outs at last roused hlmsel:. sighed, and turned away to resume his garments and left the ground at once. As, with Le ChapaJier, he was walk Ing slowly and in silent dejection toward to-ward tho entrant of the Bols, whprel they had left their carriage, they were passed bv the caleche conveying! La Tour d'Azyr and his second. And thns It waa that he was the first to return, and seeing him thus returning, re-turning, apparently safe and sound,! the two ladies, Intent upon preventing the encounter, should have assumed that their wonst fpars were realized Mine- de Plougaatel attempted to I call out. but her voice refused its' office. She attempted to throw o) ion the door of her own carriage, but 1 lOY fingers fumbled clumsily and ineffi tively with tho handle. She found her voice at last, and at the same moment signaled to tl e driver of the calocho to stop. "Mademoiselle do Kercadlou is wH b me The poor child has fainted." Moved by a deep solicitude tt r Modomoiselle de Kercadlou, de b Tour d'Azyr sprang up dosptle hi wound And thus it happened that when I few moments later that approaching cabriolet overtook and passed tha halted vehicles, Andre-Louis beheld a very touching scene. Standing up to obtain a better view, he saw Aline 1 a half-swooning condition she waa beginning to revive by now aeaterf in the doorway of the carriage, supported sup-ported by Mme de Plougaatel. In an altitude of deepest concern, M. de La Tour d'Azyr, his wound notwithstanding, notwithstand-ing, was bending over the girl, whilst behind him stood M. d'Ormesson and the madarae's footman. "My God!" he cried aloud "What must she have suffered, then, if I had killed him as I intended!" If only she had used candor with 'him. she could so easily have won his consent to do the thing she asked. If only she had told him what now he saw. that she loved M. de La Tour , d'Azyr CHAPTER X M. de La Tour d'Azyr was seen no more in the Menege or indeed in Par is at all. me rumor ran mat ne naa emigrated. emigrat-ed. But that was only half the truth I The whole of It was that he had joined that group of noble travelers who came and went between the Tuilerles and the headquarters of the emigres I at f'oblenz An for Andre Louis, his godfather's house saw him no more, as a result of his conviction that M. de Kercadlou Kerca-dlou would not relent from his rosolve nover to receive him again. He threw himseldf into his duties at the Assembly with such zeal and effect that when the Constituent was dissolved in September of the follow- ing year, membership of the Legislative, Legisla-tive, whose election followed Immediately, Immedi-ately, waa thrust upon him Of the counter-revolutionary trou-' trou-' hies, none were more acute than those Of Brittany, and. In view of the In-1 fluence It was hoped be would wield; In hie nattve province. It was pro-! posed to Andre-Louis by the Commls-IBO Commls-IBO of Twelve, In the early days of the Girondin ministry, that he should! go thither to combat the unrest Ho accopted the task, and he was one of the five plenipotentiaries dispatched dis-patched on the same errand In that spring of 1792 It kept him absent from Paris for four months and might have kept him longer but that st the beginning of August he was recalled. - Mile, de Kercadlou, too, was in , Paris In those day of early August. n a visit to her uncle's cousin and , i earest friend, Mme. de Plougastel , In early August there arrived at t he Hotel Plougastel a messenger; ft urn M. de Kercadlou through whom h urgently bade mademoiselle Join h; 'm at onco, and advised her hostess U accompany her. M. de Kercadlou was of those who ra ake friends with men of all clasee?. in Meudon he waa known and es- t med of all the simple folk, and it wi a Kouarane, ujb irit-uuij nijwi, lni ormed him on the 9tfi of August of th i storm that was brewing for the me rrow. 1 Tie friendly mayor carried his com pi a Isance a stop farther, and dispatch ed the letter to Paris by the hand of his own son. an Intelligent lad of 19. It waa late In the afternoon of j thai t perfect August day when young Rcsj gane presented himself at the Hot ol Plougastel. 34 adame made up her mind at once 'Mi le Kercadlou's urgent message no Imof e than confirmed her own fears and Inclinations. She decided upon insU At departure. It wanted, perhaps, a half hour to snna et when they se' out in her car- riant i with intent to leave Paris by the Porl e Salnt-Martln 1' carriage drew up at the bar-riei bar-riei checked there by a picket of the nat otanl guard posted before the iron gat at. 1 J ha sergeant in command strode to the door of the vehicle. The Countess Count-ess j pot her head from the window. " 'our name, Madame''"' he had ask d brusquely. "' 1 letugastel." he repeated after her, wit! o.t title, as If It had been the nan I e of a butcher or baker He took dot n i a heavy volume from a shelf on I lit right, opened it and turned the pa( f ts. It was a son of directory of his section "Comte de Plougastel, Hotel Plougastel, Rue dtTpS 'That is correct," she B There was a long moment 79 during which he studied certsssK died entries against, the oiB "The barriers are closed iBI cannot prove the most, urtaal satisfactory reasons for whE pass. You will wait madnW the restriction is removed" w Rougane's astonishment tansS , taken place. ' A passpon from witho J equally woll.' he announcel? ' go back to Meudon at one j 'ther shall give me f-0 peraM for myself alone, and moi three p. r-i.-.r from Meudoa Z and back to Meudon. I re-entg with my own permit, whlcll proceed to destroy, and w J jrether, we three, on the atraa the other one, representing ofl as hain come from Meudoa I cotirso of tho diy If I w M shall be back tonlghf." "But how will vou letTA Aline. "I? Pooh' My father Is y Meudon. ihere are plenty I him. They will pass me thaK! is quite simple " 1 His confidence uplifted hnm j The thing seemed as pmukasp-I pmukasp-I resented It. j "Then let your passport b j my friend," madame bcgjsM "There is Jacques," she pUiaM jdlcatlng: the footman who htiM slsted them to alight. Rougane departed confident fft' returning, leaving them to ttflf with the same confidonce. V hours succeedod one anotKL' nicht rio.-ie.i in, bedtime ctaMfc still there was no sight of hlir9L (Continued In Our Next Im2:' |