THE AMERICAN
THE WANDERING JEW.
HV M NK M K
CIIA1TKU xxvm
T II K S T II A N li I It.
The following ttocfu IcMik plaoc on the morrow
of the ilay in w hit h Father IAirigii y h:ol l-ern
o ruddy logni-lt'.l !y Koiliu to the Mjhaltern
position fornmly ot'uuil hy the suchis.
It is well known that the Hue I'lovis is one of
the most solitary streets in the Montague St.
(Jenevieve tlistriit. At the epoch of this narra
tive, the house No. 4, in this street, was compositl
of one principal building, through which ran a
dark passage, leading t u little, gloomy court, at
the end of which was a second huihling, in a
singularly miserable and dilapidated condition.
On the ground-tloor, in front of the house, was a
half-subterraneous shop, in which whs sold char
coal, fnggots, vegetables ami milk. Nine o'clock
in the morning had just struck. The mistress of
the shop, one Mother Arsene, an old woman of a
mild, sickly countenance, clad in brow n stuir
dress, with a red bandanna round her head, was
mounted on the top step of the stairs w hich led
down to her door, and was employed in setting
out her goods thut is, on one side of the door
she placed a tin milk-can, and on the other some
bunches of stale vegetables, Hanked with yellowed
cubbages. At the bottom of the steps, in the
shadowy depths of the cellar, one could see the
light of the burning charcoal in a little stove.
This situated at the side of the passage, served as
a portor's lodge, and the old woman acted as
portress. On a sudden, a pretty little creature,
coming from the house, entered lightly and mer
rily the shop. This young girl was Hose-Pom-pon,
the intimate friend cf the Hacchanal Queen.
Rose-Pompon, a widovfor the moment, whose
bacchanalian cicisbeo was Ninny Moulin, the
orthodox scapegrace, who, on occasion, after
drinking his till could transform himself into
Jacques Dumoulin, the religious writer, and pass
gaily from dishevelled dances to ultramontane
polemics, from Storm-blown Tulips to Catholic
pamphlets.
Koso-Pompon had just quitted her bed, as ap
peared by the negligence of her strange morning
costume; no doubt for want of any other head
dress, on her beautiful light hair, 6inooth and
well-combed, was stuck jauntily a foraging-cap,
borrowed from her masquerading costume. Noth
ing could be more sprightly than that face, seven
teen years old, rosy, fresh, dimpled, and bril
liantly lighted up by a pair of gay, sparkling blue
eyes. Rose-Pompon was so closely enveloped
from the neck to the feet in a red and green
plaid cloak, rather faded, that one could giiess
the cause of her modest embarrassment. Her
naked feet, so w hite that one could not tell if she
wore skockings or not, were slipped into little
morocco shoes, with plated buckles. U was easy
to perceive that her cloak concealed some article
which she held in her hand.
" Good day, Rose-Pompon," said Mother Arsene
with a kindly air; "you are early this morning.
Had you uo dance last night ? "
"Don't talk of it Mother Arsene; I had no
heart to dance. Poor Cephyse the Bacchanal
Queen has done nothing but cry all night. She
cannot console herself, that her lover should be
in prison."
" Now, look here, my girl," said the old woman,
" I must speak to you about your friend Cephyse.
You won't be angry?"
"Am I ever angry? "said Rose-Pompon, shrug
ging her shoulders.
"Don't you think that M. rhilemon will scold
me on his return ?"
" Scold you! what for? "
" Because of his rooms, that you occupy."
"Why, Mother Arsene, did not Philemon tell
you, that, in his absence, I was to be as much
mistress of his two rooms as I am of himself?"
" I do not speak of you, but of your friend
Cephyse, whom you have also brought to occupy
M. Philemon's lodgings."
" And where would she have gone without me,
my good Mother Arsene? Since her lover was
arrested, she has not dared to return home, be
cause she owes ever so many quarters. Seeing
her troubles, I said to her: 'Come, lodge at
Philemon's. When he returns, we must find an
other place for you."'
Well, little lovely if you only assure me that
M. Thilemon will not be angry "
"Angry! for what? That we spoil his things?
A fine set of things he has to spoil! I broke his
last cup yesterday and am forced to fetch the
milk in this comic concern."
So saying, laughing with all her might, Rose-
rompon drew her pretty little white arm from
under her cloak, and presented to Mother Arsene
one of those champagne glasses of colossal capac
ity, which hold about a bottle.
"Oli, dear!" said the greengrocer in amaze-'
incut; " it is like a glass trumpet."
" U is Philemon's grand gala-gla, which thy ,
gave him when he took his degrees in boating," j
said Rose-Pompon, gravely. I
"And to think you must put your milk in it j
I am really ashamed," said Mother Arsene.
"So am I ! If I were to meet any one on the
stairs, holding this glass in my hand like a Ro
man candlestick, I should burst out laughing, and
tlin l..f rnmti'int nf Pliilron.m'rf li'i7ii'ir nmlf
he would give me his malediction."
" There is no danger that you w ill meet any
one. The first floor is gone out, and the second
gets up very late."
"Talking of lodgers," said Rose-Pompon, " is
there not a room to let on the second-door in the
rear house? It might do for Cephvse, when
Philemon comes back."
" Yes, there is a little closet in the roof just
over the two rooms of the mysterious old fellow,"
said Mother Arsene.
"Oh, yes! Father Charlemagne. Have you
found out anything more about him?"
"Dear me, no, my girl! only that he came this
morning at break of day, and knocked at my
shutters. " Have you leceived a letter for me,
my good lady? " said he for he is always so
polite, the dear man! ' No, sir,' said I. Well,
then, pray don't disturb yourself, my good lady!'
said he; 4 1 will call again.' And so he went
away."
"Does he never sleep in the house?"
" Never. No doubt, he lodges somewhere else
but he passes some hours here, once every four
or five days."
" And always comes alone?"
"Always."
" Are you quite sure? Does he never manage
to slip in some little puss of a woman? Take
care, or Philemon will givo you notice to quit,"
said Rose-Pompon, with an air of mock-modesty.
" M. Charlemagne with a woman! Oh, poor
dear man!" said the greengrocer, raising her
hands to heaven: "if vou saw him. with his
greasy hat, his old grey coat, his patched um
brella, and his simple face, he looks more like a
saint than anything else."
"But then, Mother Arsene, what does the saint
do here, all alone for hours, in" that hole at the
bottom of the court, where one can hardly see at
noonday?"
" That's what I ask myself, my dovey, what can
he be doing? It can't be that he comes to look
at his furniture, for he has nothing but a flock-
bed, a table, a stove, a chair and an old trunk."
"Somewhat in the style of Philemon's establish
ment," said Rose-Pompon.
Well, notwithstanding that, Rosey, he is as
much afraid that any one should come into- his
room, as if we were all thieves, and his furni
ture was made of massy gold. He has had a
patent lock on the door, at his own expense; he
never leaves me his key; and ho lights his fire
himself, rather than let anybody into his room."
" And you say he is old? "
"Yes, fifty or sixty."
" And ugly? "
"Just fancy, little viper's eyes, looking as if
they had been bored with a gimlet, in a face as
pale as death so pale, that the lips are white.
That's for his appearance. As for his character,
the good old man is so polite! he pulls otf his
hat so often, and makes you such low bows, that
it is quite embarrassing."
"But, to come back to the point," resumed
Rose-Pompon, " what can he do all alone in those ,
two rooms? If Cephyse should take the closet,
on Philemon's return, we may amuse ourselves
by finding out something about it. How much
do they want for the little room?"
" Why, it is in such bad condition, that I think
the landlord would let it go for fifty or fifty-five
francs a-year, for there is no room for a stove,
and the only light comes through a small pane
in the roof."
"Poor Cephyse!" said Rose, sighing, and shak
ing her head sorryfully. "After having amused
herself so well, and flung away so much money
with Jacques Rennepont, to live in such a place,
aud support herself by hard work! She must
have courage! "
"Why, indeed, there is great difference between
that closet and the coach-and-four in which Ce
physe came to fetch you the other day, with all
the fine masks, that looked so gay particularly
the fat man in the silver paper helmet, with the
plume and the top boots. What a jolly fellow!"
"Yes, Ninny Moulin. There is no one like
him to dance the forbidden fruit. You should
see him with Cephyse, the Bacchannal Queen.
Poor laughing, noisy thing! the only noise she
makes now is crying."
" Oh! these young people these young people!"
said the greengrocer.
" Easy, Mother Arsene; you were young once."
"1 hardly khow. I have always thought my
self much the same as I am now."
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SHERIl'F'S SALE. By virtue of an order
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In the city of Omaha, Douglas county. Ne
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Lots four (4) In block i:H, and lot five (5) In
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Said property to be sold to satisfy Wal
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On lot 4 In block 131. above described, the
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Omaha, Nebraska, March 11th, 1897.
JOHN W. MCDONALD,
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W. A. Saunders, Attorney.
Keeler vs. Linton, et al.
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Omaha, Nebraska, Apitl 29th. 1898.
john w. Mcdonald,
Sheriff of Douglas County, Nebraska.
W. A. Saunders, attorney.
Keeler vs, Linton et al. 4-29-5
Doc. 62; No. 233.
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