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"Oh, no I" the ambassador cried out "He would not be contest
* ^kwith me. He would wander over a strange country."
"Ha, ha, my Mirepoix! And what is better, one evening I am
njftblige' to fight some frien's of hf. de Win tercet there, and some ladies
RR^Lad cavaliers look on, and they still think me a servant Oh, I am a
H^^veat actor! 'Tis true there is not a peasant in France who would
H^Hot have then known one 'bornbut they are wonderful, this English
Sp0P&>p^>, holding by an idea once it is in their heads?a mos' worthy
quality. But my good Molyneux here, he had speak. to me with j
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courtesy, jus' because 1 am a man an' jus because ne is ai-ways Kinu.
(I have learn' that his great-grandfather was a Frenchman.) So I 6en'
to him and tell him everything, and he gain admittance for me here
tonight to await my frien's.
"I was speaking to messieurs about my cousin, who will meddle in
the affair' of his relative'. Well, that gentleman, he make a marriage
^ . for me with a good and accomplish* lady, very noble and very beauti- i
ful?and amiable." (The young count at his elbow started slightly at
1* this, tut immediately anneared to wraja himself in a mantle of solemn i
thought) "Unfortunately, when my cousin arrange' go I was a dolt, j
^ a little blockhead. I swear to marry for myself and when T please i
v or never if I like. That lady is all things charming and gentle, and, in !
^ truth, she is?very much attach' to me?whv should I not saj^it?^ I i
} am so proud of it She i9 very faithful and forgiving and sweet Sli0 I
v would be the same, I think, if I?were even?a lackey. But II I j
a ytait a iincpncihlfi I did not value such thins^ then, j
i_\ v woo a uuiV) a uiwu v> ? w
||| I was too vo'ng, ls,s' June. So I say to ray cousin, 'No, I make my
^ * own choosing!' 'Little fool,' he answer, 'she is the one for you. Am
ha.i I not wiser than you ?' And he was very angry, and, as he has influ
ence in France, word come* that he will get me put in Vincennes, so I
mus' run away quick till his anger is gone. My good frien' Mirepoix
s 7 * is jus' leaving for London. He take' many risk' for my sake. His
L ^ hairdresser die before he start', so I travel as that poor barber. But |
my cousin is a man to be afraid of when he is angry, even in England, j
S and I mus' not get my Mirepoix in trouble. I mus' not be discover'
B till my cousin is ready to laugh about it all and make it a joke. And
' there may be spies. So I change my name again and come to Bath >
B to amuse my retreat with a little gaming. I am al-ways fond of that
But three day1 ago M. le Marquis send me a courier to say that my
? brother, who know where I had run away, is oome from Eranoe to say
that my oourin is appeas'. He need me for his little theater, the play
cannot fo on. I do not need to espouse mademoiselle. All shall be
forgiven if I return, and my brother and M. de Mirepoix will meet
me in Bath to felicitate.
"There is one more thing to say?that is all. I have said I learn'
a secret, and use it to make a man introduce me if I will not tell. He
has absolve' me of that promise. My frien's, I had not the wish to
ruin that man. I was not receive'. Meestaire Nash had reboff me. 1
had no other way except' to use this fellow. So I say, Take mo to
Lady Malbourne's ball as "Chateaurien."' I throw off my wig and
shave, and bebol', I am M. le Due de Castle Nowhere. Ha, ha! Yon
seef'
The young man's manner suddenly changed. He became haughty,
menacing. He stretched out his arm and pointed at Winterset. "Now
I am no 'Beaucaire,' messieurs. I am a French gentleman. The man
who introduce' me at the price of his honor and then betray' me to redeem
it, is that coward, that card cheat there 1"
Winterset made a horrible effort to laugh. The gentlemen who j
nA0tilan/?O "A Ffpripll trpnflp- '
^ eurrouuutu mm xcn av> aj oj nvw . 0
man!" he sneered savagely and yet fearfully. "I don't know who
you are. Hide behind as many toys and ribbons as you like. Ill know
the name of the man who dares bring such a charge I"
"Sir!" cried de Mirepoix sharply, advancing a step toward him; i
but he checked himself at once. He made a low bow of state, first to
f y
lady mary Carlisle, the beauty of bath, passed slowli
l1 by him.
the young Frenchman, then to Lady Mary and the company. "Permit
f. me, Lady Mary and gentlemen," he said, "to assume the honor of pre*
' tenting you to his highness, Prince Louis-Philippe de Yalois, duke of
Orleans, duke of Chartrea, duke of Nemours, duke of Montpenaier,
I first prince of the blood royal, first peer of France, lieutenant general
ij of French infantry, governor of Dauphine, knight of the Golden
. Fleece, grand master of the Order of Notre Dame, of Mount Cancel
[ and of St Lazarus in Jerusalem, and oousin to his most Christian
majesty, Louis XV. of France."
"Those are a few of my brother's names," whispered Hmri of
Beanjolais to Molyneux. **0\d Mirepoix has the laag breath, but it;
take a ctrong man two day* to say all of them. I can anppoae this,
Win*orat>l Immr' nnw who hrintr the charge I"
"Castle Nowhere!" gasped Beau Nash, falling back upon the
burly prop of Mr. Bantison's shoulder.
"The Duke of Orleans will receive a message from me within the
hour!" said Winterset as he made his way to the door. His face was
black with rage and shame.
"I tol' you that I would not soil my hand with you," answered the
young man. "If you send a message no gentleman will bring it.
Whoever shall bear it will receive a little beating from Francois."
lie stepped to Lady Mary's side. Ker head was bent low, her face
averted. She 6eemed to breathe with difficulty and leaned heavily
upon a chair. "Monseigneur," she faltered in a half whisper, "can
you?forgive me? It is a bitter?mistake?I have made. Forgive."
"Forgive?" lie answered, and his voice was as broken as hers; but
he went on, more firmly: "It is?nothing?less than nothing. There
is?only jus' one?in the?whole worl' who would not have treat'
me the way that you treat' me. It is to her that I am goin' to make
rrp2r?ticn. You know something, Henri? I am not goin' back only
because the king forgive me. I am goin' to please him. I am goin'
w?^?TnAiVlo nnr onnflin. Mv frieu's, I ask your felicita-'
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"And the king dues not compel him!" exclaimed young Henri.
"Henri, you want to fight me?" cried his brother sharply. "Don'
you think the king of Trance is a wiser rian than me?"
He offered his hand to Lady Mary.
"Mademoiselle is fatigue'. Will she honor me?"
He walked with her to the door, her hand fluttering faintly in his.
From somewhere about the garments of one of them a little cloud of
faded rose leaves fell and lay strewn on the floor behind them. He
opened the door, and the lights shone on a multitude of eager faces
turned toward it. There was a great hum of voices, and, over all, the
fiddles wove a wandering air, a sweet French 6ong of the voyageur.
He bowed very low, as, with fixed and glistening eyes, Lady Mary
Carlisle, the beauty of Bath, passed slowly by him and went out of
the room.
the end.
& .
A Singular Coincidence.
B* WILLARD C. IRVING.
i i
liE chief of the detective bureau in which I was employed
j I c one day told me that i. prisoner convicted of murder
wished to see me in his cell. I went to the prison and
a found an educated and refined man, who said to mo:
"I'm not guilty of this murder, but I've been proven
guilty, and they're going to hang me. Now, I want you to make an
effort for my life. I shall not swing for six weeks, and meanwhile I
want all your time. I'll give you $500 for your time and $10,000
if you'll find out who committed the murder and thus exonerate me."
The murdered man was a Mr. Jarvis. He and the condemned, Horton,
lived near each other and had had business dealings together.
One night Hart on visited Jarvis, They had hot words, Horton accusing
Jarvis of having swindled him, and the next morning Jarvis was
found dead, shot through the body. The murdered man was the only
person in the house except the servants, who slept in the back part
and did noit hear the shot
I worked a month endeavoring to find a clew to some one who
<would have had an interest in Mr. Jarvis' death. I failed signally.
Taking a box of tools, I went, as a final expedient, to the room
at 9 in the evening?the hour Horton had visited Jarvis?and
began a -systematic examination of the locks, window catches, indeed
anything pertaining to entrance and exit I found nothing and at
midnight, tired and disappointed, went to sleep on a lounge. Somehow
I couldn't get rid of the fancy that I might see something during the
night to give me a clew.
But I didn't With the life of a fellow being on my handa I slept
but little and waa awake at daylight in the morning. I was in a library,
and, besides books, it was filled with curioeitiee.
Among other things I noticed on the wall a pair of mooee'a horns
supporting an antique arquebus. It was hung in such a manner that
it did not point parallel with the wall, but at an acute angle. The sun
had been up some time, and its rays were converged by a convex glass
in. a fancy window into a brilliant spot on the wall. I watched the spot
travel as the sun rose, and it passed a short distance from the powder
pan is the arquebus. I looked at the chair in which Mr. Jarvis had
'beenaccustomed to sk and notified that the weapon pointed directly at
it It occurred to me that if the sun spot had passed exactly over the
pan .and the gun had been loaded it would have been fired. Then it
suddenly entered my head that this sun spot and gun might have been
connected with Jarvis* death.
I got up and examined the gun. It waa empty. I called the servants.
They reported that their master had kept it loaded, declaring
that it was yet good enough to protect him against burglars. At any
rate I believed Jarvis had been lolled by the gun even if the sun spot
had net fired it
The next morning I took an assistant from an astronomical observthA
room. He noticed the course traveled by the sun spot
and figured its track on the date of the murder. After finishing his
computations he announced that the spot on that date passed over the
pan of the arquebus. One thing more. I got up on a stepladder,
looked down the gun's barrel and saw that it pointed directly at Mr.
Jarvis' chair.
As soon as I had completed these investigations I went to the
prisoner and announced the reJhlt. I shall never forget the look of
intelligence and hope that came into his faoe. The next morning I had
the prisoner's attorney in the room, and the next the judge that had
sentenced him. The attorney formed the theory that Mr. Jarvis was
sitting in his chair the morning the sun spot fired the arquebus and
killed him.
The prisoner was accorded a new trial, but it was a very short one.
The jury, after visiting the room and seeing' a demonstration by the
attorney, who arranged that the sun spot should fire a bullet into Mr.
Jarvis' chair, acquitted the prisoner. The incident saved his life and
made my fortune.
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