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•CHAPTER XXVII.-fContinued.}
Presently the object of his search en
tered, bein'; no other than the fairy
prince he had admired so much from
the first. Seen closely, she was a young
woman of about flve-and-twenty, with
bold, black eyes, and a petulant mouth,,
significant of ill-temper. Directly she
saw him she tossed her head and made
A grimace.
“So It is you!" she cried. “I thought
you were dead, and buried.”
“And you did not mourn me?” re
turned Caussidiere, softly, with, his
most winning smile. “Well, I have
come to ask you to sup with me tonight
at the Cafe des Trente Etoiles.”
“I shall not come! I am engaged!”
“Nonsense, Seraphihe! You will
come.”
“Of course she will come,” cried the
low comedian, breaking in. “My chil
dren, live in amity while you can, and
drink of the best, for the Germans are
approaching. Papa Corbert commands
you—be merry, my children, while you
may. Seraphine, Caussidiere is a king
tonight; you will join him and drink
confusion to the enemies of France.”
“Why did you not comfe before?” de
fended Seraphine, sharply. “It is a
week since I have seen you. Were you
nursing the baby at home?”
“All, Caussidiere is a model hus
band,” exclaimedMademoiselleBlanche;
“he rocks the cradle and goes to bed at
ten."
i^uuies, said (Jorocrt, witn mode so
lemnity, “I conjure you not to jest cn
such a subject. I am a family man my
self, as you are aware. Respect the
altar! Venerate the household! And
since the Germans are approaching—”
“Bother the Germans!” interrupted
Seraphine. “Let them come and burn
Paris to the ground. I should not care.
I tell you, Caussldlere, I have an en
gagement."
“Don’t believe her!” cried Corbert.
“Seraphine will sup with you. She
loves Brunet’s oyster pates too well to
deny you. Think of it, my child! A
little supper for two, with Chambertin
that has just felt the fire, and cham'
pagne.”
*••••*
An hour later Caussldiere and Made
moiselle Seraphine were seated in one
of the cabinets of the Cafe des Trente
Etoiles amicably discussing their little
I supper.
When the meal was done and the
\ waiter had brought in the coffee, the
pair sat side by side, and Caussidiere’s
arm stole round the lady’s waist.
“Take your arm away,” she cried,
laughing. “What would Madame Caus •
sidiere say if she saw you?”
Caussidiere’s face darkened.
“Never mind her,” he returned.
“Ah, but I do mind! You are a bad
tnan, and should be at home with your
wife. Tell me, Caussldiere,” she con
tinued, watching him keenly, “does she
know how you pass the time?” »
“She neither knows nor heeds.” re
plied Caussldiere. “She is a child, and
stupid, and does not concern herself
with what she does not understand.”
Seraphine’s manner changed. The
smile passed from her face, and the cor
pers of her petulant mouth came down.
Frowning, she lighted a cigarette, and,
leaning back, watched the thin blue
wreaths of smoke as they curled up
toward the ceiling.
“What are you thinking of?” asked
Caussldiere, tenderly.
“I am thinking—’’
“Yes.”
“That you are incorrigible, and nol
to be trusted; you have given this por
son your name, and I believe she is
your wife after all; and if that is so,
what will become of your promises to
me? I am a fool. I believe, to waste
my time on such a man.”
“Seraphine!”
is sne your wue, or is she not?
“She is not, my angel.”
“Then you are free! Answer me
truly; no falsehoods, If you please.”
“I will tell you the simple truth,”
replied Caussldiere, sinking his voice
and nervously glancing toward the
door. “In one sense, look you, I am
married; in another, I am not married
at all.”
"What nonsense you talk! Do you
think I am insane?”
“I think you are an angel.”
“Pshaw! Take your arm away.”
“Listen to me, Seraphine. The affair
is very simple, as I will show you ”
“Bien! Goon!”
“In a moment of Impulse, for reasons
which I need not explain, I married her
of whom you speak, according to the
English law. It was a foolish match, I
grant you, and I have often repented
It from the moment when I met you.”
“Aprcs?” murmured Seraphine, with
a contemptuous shrug of her little
shoulders.
“Apres? Well, the affair «a clear
enough. I am a French citizen, my
Seraphine!”
lie looked at her smilingly, with an
expression of wicked meaning. She
returned the look, laughing petulant
ly.
“What of that?” she asked.
“Do you not perceive? So long as I
remain in my mother country, where
no ceremony has taken place, this par
son is not my wife at all. The law is
very convenient, is It not? A marriage
in England with an English subject is
no marriage unless it has been proper
ly ratified In France.”
“Oh.but you are traitreux,” aha cried.
“It is abominable. Why do you not
do what is right, and acknowledge her
according to the French law.”
“For a very good reason. There is
some one I love better, as you know.”
But the actress drew herself angrily
away.
“You love no one. You have no love
in your heart. I tell you, Leon, I am
sorry for her and for her child. There
la a child, too, is there not?”
“Yes,” replied Caussidicre.
"Does she know, this poor betrayed,
what you have just told me?”
“Certainly not. It would only—dis
tress her! ”
“It is Infamous!” exclaimed Sera
phine.
"Not at all,” he answered. “She is
very happy in her ignorance, I assure
you. When the time comes, and it
may come when you please, I will tell
her the truth and she will quietly go
home.”
There was a long pause. Seraphlne
continued to smoke her cigarette and
to glance from time to time with no
very admiring eagerness at her com
panion. It was clear that the frank
confession of his villainy had not
raised him in her esteem. Seeing her
coldness, and anxious to change the
subject, he rang for the waiter and or
dered the bill. While that document
was being prepared he opened hi3
purse and looked into it. The act
seemed to remind him of something he
had forgotten. He felt in the pocket
of his coat, and drew forth a small
cardboard box.
“I have something to show you,” he
said, smiling.
Seraphine glanced up carelessly.
“What is it, pray?”
“It. is this,” replied Caussidiere,open
ing the box and showing a gold brace
let richly wrought. “Do you think
It pretty? Stay! Let me try it on your
arm!”
So saying, he clasped the bracelet on
Seraphlne’s left wrist. Holding out
her arm, she looked at it with assumed
carelessness,but secret pleasure, for she
was a true daughter of the theater,
and loved ornament of any kind.
“I see,” she said, slyly. “A little pres
ent for madame!”
“Diable! No, It is for you—if you
will accept it.”
“No, thank you. Please take it
away. I will not take what belongs
to another.”
“Then I will throw it Into the
street!”
At this moment the waiter returned
with the bill. It amounted to a consid
erable sum. and when Caussidiere had
settled It, and liberally feed the bring
er, there was very little left in the
purse.
"You will wear the bracelet for my
sake,” said Caussidiere, softly, as he
assisted theactress to put on her cloak.
“No, no,” answered Seraphine, But
without attempting to take the brace
let off. “Apropos, Leon, where do you
get your money? You do not work
much, I think, and yet you spend your
cash, sometimes like an English mi
lor.”
“I wish I were twenty times as rich,
for your sake!” cried Caussidiere, evad
ing the question. “Ah, my Seraphine,
I adore you!”
He drew her toward him and kissed
her on the lips. The present of the
bracelet had prevailed,and she suffered
the salute patiently; but there was an
expression in her face which showed
that she rated her admirer exactly at
his true worth.
A few minutes later Caussidiere, with
the actress hanging on his arm, gayly
quitted the cafe.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
N the morning aft
er her strange in
1 terview with Mar
| jorie, Adele of tie
Mouche d’Or,
dressed in the wild
ly extravagant cos
tume of a petro
leuse, and holding
a flaming torch in
her hand, was
standing in an ar
usi s siuqio—a grimy enough apart
ment, situated In a back street In the
neighborhood of the Madeleine.
She was posing for the benefit of the
artist immediately in front of her, but
her eyes were fixed not upon him, but
upon the figure of a young man who
was working hard at the other end of
the room. Ever since she first came to
the studio, just three days before,Adele
had watched the young man very cu
riously.
His behavior Interested her. He
seldom spoke, but worked at his pic
ture with quiet pertinacity. Presently
the young fellow dropped his brush ar.d
walked silently from the room. Adele
turned her eyes upon her companion.
“Who is your friend, monsieur?" she
asked abruptly.
The artist, deeply engaged in bis
work, failed at first to notice her ques
tion.
“Who is he?” she asked again.
"He?"
“Yes; the young man who works al
ways and never speaks."
“He is a friend.”
"Naturally, monsieur, since he shares
your studio. But where does he come
from?”
The artist smiled.
“You seem curious about him, made
moiselle,” he said. ‘'What do you wlkh
to know concerning him?”
The girl shrugged her shoulders.
"Wish to know!” she exclaimed. “Ma
toll I hare no wish to know, mon
sieur.”
“Then I don’t mind telling you. He
is a countryman of mine. He was
born in a village near where I was
born. I knew him when he was a boy;
and when he came to Paris a few
months ago, determined to work hard
and compelled to live on slender means,
I offered to share my studio with him.
and he is here. There, you have lost
your fierce look and got quite a tame
one Into your eyes. You are no longer
a wild creature of the Revolution. You
are also stiff, I perceive. Take a few
turns about the rooms, mademoiselle,
then we will go on.”
The artist walked over to a table lit
tered with all kinds of debris, filled a
well-colored briar-root pipe, and began
to smoke.
He was a tall man, slight in build,
rather good-looking, but very careless
ly dressed; when he walked, he did so
with a slight limp, though he appeared
to have well-knit limbs; and when he
spoke French, he did so with a very
strong insular accentuation. From
himself Adele had learned nothing of
his personal history, for he was chary
of giving that kind of information,
and at times more Inclined to work
than talk.
Having received permission to rest.
Adele shook herself like a young pan
ther, and leaped lightly from the ros
trum, while her employer, having lit
his pipe, strolled off and left her in
sole possession of the studio. She
stood for a moment to stretch her
limbs, already cramped with posing,
then strolled thoughtfully to the fur
ther end of the studio, where the
younger of the two men had been
working. There stood the picture at
which he worked so assiduously, cov
ered with a green fold of baize. Adele
longed to have a peep at it. She lis
tened; returned to tho door; there was
no sound; then she ran lightly across
the room, lifted the loose baize and
exposed the picture to full view.
“Holy Mother!” she exclaimed.
starting back with raised eyebrows
and hands.
“You are startled, mademoiselle,"
said a voice. “Do you consider the
picture a bad one?”
Adele turned and saw her employer
gazing at her from the threshold of
the room. *
“If you please,” he continued, ad
vancing, “we will return to our work.
Your face has got some expression
now; the rest has done you good.”
Without a word she turned from the
picture, mounted her rostrum and fell
into her accustomed pose.
For a time the artist worked again
silently, and Adele, glancing from him
to the picture, seemed deliberating as
to what she should do.
Presently she spoke.
“How long has he been In Paris?”
she said, indicating by a sidelong
movement of her head the person who
usually occupied the other end of the
room.
“Several months, as I Informed
you,” returned the artist, without look
ing up from his work.
“Who Is his model?”
"Which one?”
"For that picture.”
"No one. He paints from memory.”
“Ah, then, he has known her? Ho
Is a compatriot of madame?”
“Of whom?"
“Of the original of that picture—
Madame Caussidiere.”
"Ah, you think you trace a likeness
to a friend.”
“I do not think it, monsieur; I know
it. It is madame, not as she is now
—ah, no—but as she must have been
years ago, before she married that
Chouan of a Caussidiere!”
(TO B3 CONTINUED.)
HAND TO MOUTH.
In America People Leave Nothing for
Their Children to Spend.
In America it is the custom—ver;
nearly the universal custom—lor par
ents to spend upon the luxuries and
pleasures ot the family life the whole
income, says the North American Re
view. The children are educated ac
cording to this standard of expenditure
and are accustomed to all Its privileges.
No thought is taken of' the time when
they must set up households for them
selves—almost invariably upon a very
different scale from the one to which
they have been used. To the American
parent this seems only a natural down
fall. They remark cheerfully that they
themselves began in a small way and
it will do the young people no harm to
acquire a similar experience, forgetting
that in most cases their children have
been educated to a much higher stand
ard of ease than that of their own early
life. They do not consider it obligatory
to leave anything to their children at
death. They have used alj they could ac
cumulate during their own lifetime
let their children do the same. The re
sults of the system are cyrstallized in
the American saying, “There are but
three generations from shirt sleeves to
shirt sleeves.” The man who acquires
wealth spends what he makes. Ilia
children, brought up in luxury, strug
gle unsuccessfully against conditions to
which they are unused, and the grand
children begin in their shirt sleeves to
toil for the wealth dissipated by the
two preceding generations.
Negro Marvel.
J. R. Thompson, a negro boy, 11 year*
of age, living near Savoyard, Ky„ has
already mastered the common school
rudiments of his scholastic education,
and is always up in algebra, geome
try, astronomy, calculus, and the
higher branches. He is said to be a
lightning calculator, and a marvel la
many respects.
GLANCING BACKWARD
WHAT A VAST CHANQB HAS
TAKEN PLACE!
The Country Doei Not Recofulzt Itielf
In Viewing Its Condition of n Year
A«°—Farmers the Onea Who Haro
Becelred the Ureateat Benefit.
(Washington Letter.)
This ought to be a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year for a large pro
portion of the people of the United
States.
There are several reasons and It may
not be improper from this national
standpoint, where they are easily look
ed at, to enumerate some of them.
Glance over the files of your papers
of the corresponding date four years
ago and even three years ago, and, if
you have not them at hand, recall to
your recollection the circumstances Of
that time. Want and suffering in ev
ery city; hundreds of thousands of peo
ple out of employment; business sus
pended and business men called upon
to give of their funds to keep the un
employed of their own communities
from starvation; sgap houses estab
lished everywhere; idle men in search
of employment or in search of suste
nance; thousands sleeping in station
houses and public buildings in the
great cities. Everybody who recalls
the experiences of the first and second
winters which followed the election of
a free trade President and Congress
and contrasts them with those of to
day, must feel that there is occasion
for gratitude in the present condition
of his own community and the com
munities of his country.
Take the farmer and his condition as
another example. While he was not
UNCLE SAM'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
actually starving and requiring his
friends to contribute food at this time
four years ago, the contrast between
the prices which he is now getting and
those during the free trade period will
certainly make this a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year to him. The far
mer supplies the bulk of that great
mass of productions which go to other
parts of the world and bring millions
of money into the United States. The
exportations of the country in the year
now about to end are the heaviest in
its entire history. They will reach for
the calendar year nearly $1,100,000,000.
In but once in the history of the coun
try did they reach as much as a bil
lion, and that under the administration
of the last Republican President, Gen
eral Harrison. This year they will ex
ceed those of 1S92, when they were $1,
015,000,000. And the farmer is getting
his share of this prosperity.
Take the manufacturers and the mil
lions of men employed in the various
industries which they control or which
are tributary to them. Four years ago
the shutters were upon the windows,
the wheels were silent, the employes
were without work. To-day in every
community the factories are working
uu iuit urne, uiau; ui iiicin uverume,
In some cases running day and night,
while thousands upon thousands ot
workingmen and women have received
as holiday gifts an increase of from 10
to 20 per cent in their wages. This Is
the result of the protective system; the
conditions of tour years ago were the
result of the free trade system.
Take the currency of the country, the
money In circulation as another exam
ple. Two years ago the leaders of the
Democratic party began the vigorous
agitation In favor of an unsound sys
tem of finance in the afTairs of the na
tion. The result was immediately felt
in a rapid reduction of the money in
circulation. Eighteen months ago its
leaders met in Chicago and did what it
had been for some time appaprent they
would do, declared for the free and un
limited coinage of silver at a ratio far
different from that which actually ex
ists in the commercial value of silver
and gold. And during that campaign
it was insisted that only by this false
and delusive method could there be
produced a sufficient increase in the
currency of the country to keep pace
with the growth of its population. The
result of that agitation was suspension
or business, the disappoaraucc of cur
rency, business alarm, still further loss
of employment. The rejection of the
proposition by the people was felt by
an immediate increase in the country,
and on this holiday occasion, only a
year after the rejection by the people
Food for Thought.
Mr. C. H. Cramp, a short time ago,
at the meeting of the board of trade
and transportation in New York city,,
said: “No nation has ever been able
to maintain ship-owning by purchas
ing its ships from the ship-builders of
other nations." This remark oilers
food for thought to members of con
gress and to the people generally. The
American policy of protection is a'
broad aand national policy and should
embrace every American industry
within its beneficent workings.
It la • Gem.
Tho.T'rs Nat So Warm.
An investigation of the subject
shows that the thirteen countries
which made formal protests against
certain features of the tariff law of
1897, in the two months in which the
details of our exports can bo obtained,
have purchased 1121,446,503 In value
of our products and merchandise,
against only J107.077.58G in the corre
sponding . months of last year under
the Wilson law.—York (Pa.) Dis
patch.
An Industry Firmly Established.
The new tariff law, with its duty on
mirror plate glass, has given rise to
what seems the firm establishment of
that branch of glass making In this
country. The demand Is great and
growing, and has been met practically
solely by foreign makers. Now three
plants are in various stages of comple
tion within a short distance of this
city, designed to All the American de
mand with the American product.—
Commoner and Glass-Worker.
of the United States of this proposed ]
system of finance, the currency In clr- j
culation Is more than $200,000,000 In
excess of that on the day that Mr. Bry
an was nominated upon the free silver
platform. And this is another of the
numerous causes for congratulation to
the people of the United States on this
holiday occasion.
What is the cause of all these
changes? The cause Is found simply
in the difference of policy and admin
istration between the Cleveland free
trade period and the McKinley protec
tive tariff period. Under the former
policy the country had reached the low
est ebb in finance and trade within the
memory of the generation, but with the
appearance of Bryan and the free sil
ver heresy a still further stagnation
was felt until things at one time seem
ed to be at a standstill. But with the
election of a President pledged to pro
tection and sound money an immediate
difference is seen. Even before it was
possible to enact any legislation which
would change the operation of the gov
ernment, or even before an? change
was made In the occupancy of the
White House, the confidence restored
to the country and business In the
knowledge that proper legislation
would be enacted as' soon sb possible
was marked on all sides. Then cafne
the inauguration of President McKinley
and later the enactment of a Repub
lican tariff law, .designed to furnish
sufficient revenue and to protect Ameri
can industries, and the result has been
a steady growth of prosperity and an
increase of business all over the land.
Prices of farm products have risen,
wages of employes have been increased,
thousands of unemployed have been
given work, and the country is enter
ing Into a season of prosperity which
is a great contrast to the years of free
trade which are fresh in the memories
| of the people. GEO. WILLIAMS.
REPUBLICAN OPINION. ii
The Republicans in congress and thst
departments are moving in the direc
tion of rigid economy In government
expenditures, and the appropriations
f« the current fiscal year are likely to
be considerably reduced. This fact
adds to the probability that the Ding
ley law is going to prove ample in its
revenue producing capacity. Indeed,
the members of the committees which
framed It are unanimous in the;r
agreement with treasury offlcials that
it will meet the requirements of the
government and that nq further rev
enue legislation will be necessary.
Congressman Sayers of Texas, who
surprised his Democratic associates by
expressing some vigorous protective
sentiments In the announcement of his
candidacy for the governorship, is be
ing congratulated upon his frank
recognition of the new order of things
in the south. The rapidity of the .. -
growth of the protective sentiment in
that section is remarkable, and Is ex
emplified in the fact that there are
now more protectionists In congress
from the south than at any time in the
history of the country. *
—
An educational test is a prominent
feature of the immigration restriction ,
bill now pending before the Republican \
congress and likely to be made a law. ,
The Republican party has always been
the champion of intelligence and edu
cation, while those opposed to it have
welcomed to their ranks a large per
centage of the unsatisfactory element
coming from abroad. It will be ro
membered that the immigration re
striction bill of last congress was ve* ‘
toed by a Democratic President
Those astonishing reports from 1
Washington Just after the meeting of
congress which Indicated that the Ha
waiian annexation proposition was
likely to fall can not stand the test of
examination. Many of the men who
were regarded as opposed to the treaty
are now indicating a disposition to sup
port it, and the chief opposition yet re
maining comes from those who are
unwilling to look with favor upon
anything originating with the Repub
lican party, as this proposition does.
Japan has concluded to withdraw her
protest, since she sees that the United
States is really in earnest about it.
and that interference by her would un
favorably affect her present friendly,
relations with the United States,
“Bimetallism must mean one of two
things: Either it is two kinds of money
of unequal value circulating side by ,
side by reason of the exchange of the
less valuable for that of greater value,
or else two kinds of money of such in
trinsic equality of value that they will
circulate naturally side by side. Wo f:
have a bimetallic currency in the Unit- <•;
ed States now. A firm establishment
of the gold standard with such inter
changeability with silver as will make
it acceptable on an equality with gold
will maintain this bimetallism, tho
same as it has existed tor the last IS
years.”—Secretary Oage before house
committee on banking and currency.
With Germany, Russia, France, Ja
pan and Great Britain extending their
influence In China; the financial world
is liable to wake up some fine morning
to find that country has adopted the
gold standard. Can this be the secret
reason of ..the sudden anxiety of Sena
tor Teller oft this subject? He knows
that the rejection of the silver stan- '
dard by China would be an Immense
loss to his constituents, Jhe silver mine
owners of the West, from whom China
has been a heavy purchaser, and if re
ports are true, Mr. Teller is himself
somewhat interested in silver mines
The talk of cheap money only ?J
catches the men who do not understand
Its real meaning. When It is brought
among business men It finds no sup
porters. The free-colnage-of-silver
proposition was. kicked and cuffed la C
the most distressing way by the mem
bers of the National Board of Trade la
Washington last week, despite the fact
( that all the old parties were represent
cd In the board.
Rigid economy in public expenditures
is the watch word on the Republican
side in congress. This was the recom
mendation of President McKinley’s
message, and has been re-echoed by
Chairman Cannon of the house appro
priation committee, and Chairman ‘
Dlngley of the ways and means com
mittee, and there Is reason to believe
that the Republican party in the pres
ent congress will make a record of
economy of which members in all parts
of the country will have .reason to be
proud. ,__
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
being received with marked attention ;
in his tour through the south and
there Is reason to believe that his visit :4
to that section will result in great ad
vantage to its agricultural interests.
There is a marked contrast between
the attitude of this Republican secre
tary of agriculture and his Democrat- $
ic predecessor, who spent most of his
time in frowning down the beet-sugar
and other laudable industries and de
vising plans to prevent the distribution .
of seeds to the farmers of the country.
ULrc It • Trial. ,»
We hear of some criticisms of the
new tariff, but we don't hear of any V
one who wishes to re-enact the Wil
son-Gorman tariff which President' %
Cleveland declared was perfidious and
permitted it to become a law without
his signature. There are some people. |
jnst plain, common folks, who think >>
it might be well to give the new tariff
a trial of one year at least before de
nouncing it.—Burlington (la.) “Hawk- '
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