Show T THE 1 14 Z ZOUAVE 0 T E I 1 on the evening ot of m y story george lory the iret f blacksmith of sainte salute mano maria aux mines MUM was w I 1 an unhappy h frame ranio ot of mind it I 1 a I 1 always been his babit as soon da as the forge fire was extinct and the sun run had set to seat I 1 itself ou on a bench before ln ili door and while enjoying that lassitude which bard work ork on a warm N arm dey diy leaves bel bet ind it drink sever a al pots of beer with his apprentices be fore 9 them away ray bot but on this particular evening the good man remu renamed ned at the forge until it vw to go to the supper table and then went reluctantly into the bouse howa what can be the matter with him t bis his wife perhaps he be has re some bad i aws from the regiment that he does not wish to tell me per haps our eon son ie is ill fil bat but as she dared not ask che she mccu pied herself in aryn ato g to quiet her three flaxen headed youngsters whose laugh ing face facets at feared aroni arout d the board where they were mere munching a salad of black and cream at Is last atthe the cubed away bis his plate exclaims g angrily oh the cowards co 1 oh ob the diels I 1 what is the matter lory asked his wife then the root of the whole matter came to light I 1 am ELM speaking of the those five or six scoundrels whom any one could hive jeee this morning rambling round tb toe 6 village tillage IB in the uniforms of french sol diers liters ami arm in arm with the bavarians Bava Ba rians arians es it IN such aa a these what hill shill I 1 call them who wito have lave chosen to become Js prussians russians I 1 and to think we will have to see these fale falce coining coming back everyday every day from froia africa I 1 what magic po tion have tl ey drunk to make them chango change this may ayt HIS ilia wife moth erlile immediately attempted the defense ot of the abused what would you have otherwise my poor husband bue band gild smil she tina this re to turn ie is hardly tho the fault of these chil dren algiers where they were veto sent I 1 is 9 go so tar far aw LT y that they were homesick and it must have been such a tempha tion lor for them to come back such a temptation not to ime bate tol tobe soldiers any longer I 1 lory struck the table mith hie his fist fiercely rush mother I 1 you women never understand anything living for your children and with your children makes you lower your mind to the le lei el of the intellect of the youngsters aa As for me MIN I 1 ay ray to you again that these men mon ore are beggars scoundrels the worst kind of coward cowarde and it if ill luck should make OUT our christian capable of such infamy as theirs as true as my name a geo george aga lory and that I 1 bavo have served seeli se eli year years as a french soldier I 1 would run him through with my sword and with a terrible look half rising the black smith pointed to hie his jot lot g saber hanging on the wall beneath his sou son a picture a portrait t taken in africa of a soldier in zouave uniform but with such an hon bon et e t alsatian face tanned by the sun that the eight sight suddenly calmed the father and be a sai rai I 1 laughingly it wae was well veil I 1 looked at tt ti a picture ae As it if our christian coul cent I 1 become a prue sian I 1 pot put into a better humor by this idea the good man gayly finished his big dinner and soon followed it up with a couple of pints ot of beer at the ly ille ilia de atras bourg inn at last his wife was alone I 1 after putting the little flaxen beads heads to bed and listening to their prattle in the next room which founded sounded like a of birds going to sleep the elio took her or ork ic and eat lit down to knit before the door at the garden elde side of the house u from time to time the ebe sighed as eho she thought yee yes I 1 know it well tb they ey are cowards and rene renegades gades adee lint what doe does it matter their mothers will be tie glad to hee u them back once more all the tile same and she thought of the times before her ton son had gone with the army how at this hour of the day he need used to devote himself to the care of the garden in I 1 er mind she elie con cool i 1 lee u him clad in blouse his hair lair loi lot g nia 1118 beautiful hair bair which they bad had cut off when he became a zouave filling hie his watering can at the tile well near by her suddenly ahe ho started rho little gite at the ei d of the garden which opened on the fiel fie Is was ajar the dogs logs ha hil I 1 not barkel 1 the fact that home oi 01 e bad had come over the m wall all like a robber and wag was gliding in aud and out among the bee beehives bives mother 1 her iler chriatian stood before lier her asha repaint itic I 1 and troubled his tongue I 1 tl ick tell I 1 froni from drink hie ilia uniform disheveled I 1 Vernis tl e erable lad h id returned aruil i africa with the othera but fur a i hour lick ori bad been rambling outside abo couo ti I 1 waiting tor for his hi father a departure derat der arture ture ilia I 1 felt it her duty to cold scold him but abe hid bad not the heart to do it it bad had been such fai along balong tin is since she site bad been him so ehe she ern embrace brace I 1 jilin instead then bo be gave her such good tor for big his return he lie bate I 1 the country where be had been it grieved him to be so far for away froni from home borne and hie his corn radea rades called him hirn a prussian because of tit him 1 accent he ile told her let all 4 6 W 6 01 X I 1 0 wf ci i abl ibis and she belief it she only h J I 1 i to to loot 1001 tt t t ham to bellevo believe anything talking they entered lo 10 bouie boum e the youngsters young awol 0 au all I 1 tan ran hi lit iu in their nightgowns night gowns barefooted to eni em brace their big broil er tacy him to out eat something tint but be he was not hungry oly only thir thirsty tty 01 oh eo so thira tyl so he be drank tints i inte ot of i ater in place of 0 the wine and beer to which be bad had baui treating himself all day at the inn A step stop vas as hea heard rd in ill the court alas it was the ill tel sinith returning I 1 there is your tather III lo 10 3 on relt quickly until I 1 lim haa will to speak to hun him to all I 1 I 1 criel the mother pu abiog her son bellit I 1 alii great eat earthe t heim nv are stove while she el ell to sem seier ing once more with azem balig fingers engers unfortunately tho the zoua zouave vB say car arsted on ia a chair and it NN as the fief t thine thing lory saw m hen lion ho antero it it then his ilia wife a 9 pallor her oa embarrassment lie it I 1 0 11 christian is here I 1 be he fur bous ly IT and g down his fits salier saber I 1 nth a gesture of rage rushed behind ahr stove chere the zouave pala pule and nd was crouching hinR leaning against the wall for fear ot of falling rhe mother thre berhoff ua between them lory lory do not kill bun him I 1 she cried it mas as I 1 who broto role him to ro re turn that you needed him at the tile forge bhe clung to her husband a s arm and dobling dragged him back an I 1 ia ili their nom irwin the mee weeping children could I 1 ear car their patents voices oue full of tein tl jil a oti fr er of anger finger so cli change inge I 1 that they could hardly recognize then them tl TI e blacksmith stood FUR a ii ament an all I 1 looked it lit t his N wife I 1 to mi ILL it aas a yon you was avas it that ilia male ae him return N ety ey bywell ax well ell lie ili uny AT go to bed I 1 shall cook what nhat I 1 will mill do iu in tue the meriting the next day christian awoke after sleep fell full of nightmare nu an I 1 terror to cud find himself lu in the room where lie had slat when a chil chill 1 cros cro s the he little lead framed panes grew a bop ine in ill flow er an I 1 the aru was already high in the b an afons ons below the hammers hani inere goun scull led ou on the anvil ilia mother was at bib bedside she badnow bad not left him during the night be close the she feared her burband a rage might return her burband ati bund bibo au had bot sought hi bis couch for until etwas it was dawn dawdle I 1 e had walked about the house m weeping sighing opening and t buttion the drawers of the and now that it was N as daa da ba hal I 1 quietly entered his son a room dressed dres sied as for a journey with high gaiters a large bat and car crying an iron ferruled fer ruled n s esaff lie ile came op up to the bed saying only get up uhe ibe boy a trifle confused started to put on bis his zouave uniform lot Is ot that laid said his father sternly but le he has no do others his mother giro give him dime then I 1 shall not need them any more chile hile his sou son was dressing lory carefully folded the uniform aud and mak ing tug a of it hung it by its strap over the end of his stick how now come down stairs he lie said at last and the three went down domn to the tile forge without wit hont speaking tho the bellows roared the men were at work the sight of the open shod shed door reminded the zouave of his childhood how he lie had played there eo so long between the warm rond road and the dour door m where here the sparks of the forge rhone in the black coal dust A feeling aling of tenderness came over him a desire to have havenia his father a haidou but when be he lifted hie his eyes he eno encountered countered an glance at last the black smith spoke my son sal sai I 1 ho be here are the anvil an all I 1 the toola tools all are yours and III all I 1 this too addel adde I 1 he g to botho the little garden bullof full of the sunlight and the bumming of bees framed in tl ti a e be shohe I 1 doorway the hives lilves the vines eq the houe howe all belong to you aa As you haie hae sacrificed your honor tor for these chii gs it is only right that you should take care of tl it cm era you are master over all I 1 ere As tor for me die I 1 am going away it ov on owe fl file is years to france aud and I 1 am going to pay them tor for you lory lory where are you going cried hie ilia poor wife rather weft his son but the Wac blacksmith kernith had gone wall walk ing away with great strides without turning once at biddi bel bet abbes at the garrison of the third donavea not many days later there was enrolled among those who had enlisted as volunteers Tolan teera one whose ago age ha I 1 passed halt half a century by five years from the I 1 tell rench ch of if al 1 I I ons ow i D audet i or short stories |