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In every other diretion lay darkness; dese, eable aspect I wore. I forgot al, save my dog whined -again; otberelue all wras stut- I dd net even how I dhouN laion swept- byr A$he Ih wind; silence news, even my oWVtehgness;*Wiee 40aSy sEM 'At h m questIo "Four emndsmmnee IS far soe at a UMu ne howling .-ar- haltd or to tak lengthemboldened tf reash, mNan. which ]Paes that the hiep sneered; and at a wad b of stAyed w until Is.. zilence, I-crept And stob along-ap daua esuasves with vlaf e watch f1natght have ben te tIn at the bd. fasa4 aGd uwebma- 4manase. Whffe as0 mles from Pari. thetdoowaYthe lodge sage, seeking the way down. and met my -atkqrin-iaw'a gaae of The passage was and board NamIa as wab,-.dhe hs 26.. For very misery I sobbed I na disgust and aato dark, every aloud.. and on which I stepped shrieked the alaim. But in6c vwn I entered the longer knew where I was; nor, -had I He was Just of the nIght turn, and met me I felt my way to the landing at the head Of pard, thOgh bib rataia iss known, had I the strength to return.- Ex. on the threshold. I saW beyond him the the stairs, and was gold-a...aea about to descend when -and In a bade oitement had carried me far, but at last I grinning faces of the unger porters. But I some Impulse, I know not what-perhaps a tie ser ahts oust I had fury i felt the weakness of utter exhaustion, and had that to tell which Aill me. I from s11tal at me, the passion alc and upheld shrinking the dark parts below, to rot the-witightfte wave the velvet cosat in his aching craved only a hole in which threw up my hands. % I which I *as about to entrust myself-moved race, and cry my errand beford them all. to lie down and die. Wortunately at this "I know where they arq" -I cried, breath- me to open one of the shutters and peer out. Heaven moment I met the wind, and the less. "I can take knows at that there was such a caught you t9; tiem!" I did so, cautiously, and but a Ulttle, and sudden pause and about-faces as must have scent of new-mown hay; and stumbling He gazed at me, dumb rith surprise and found myself looking, not into the garden made the stolen had it been forward a few steps made out a low build- rage; and doubtless a lees reputable son-in- through which I had but into the there dog laugh I law than I have passed. Monseigneur in high excitement ing looming through the night. staggered appeared wopid been hard one beyond the alley; and there on a scene bade them bring me in to him, the secre- to it, and discovered that it was a shed, to find. "Pig! Jackal! Gu ter-bird!" he cried. so strange and yet apropos to and with flt or I my thoughts tary whispeted.in my ear that he had a entering my hands extended "Begone! Begone! wilLhave you flayed!" that I paused, gaping. elcak that would replace the one I had the hay under my feet. With a sob of "But I know where theydtre! I'know where On a of four men I I plat grams were stand- Icst. a valet told me that my wife had thankfulness sank down upon it, but, In- they have him!" protested. ing, two and two; between them, with nose gene to her father's, a second me stead of the soft couch I expected, fell on His face underwent W"Atartling change. and brought the upraised scenting this way and that, food and nudged me to remember him, angular body of a man, who with a He darted forward with:ainimbleness won- moved a, beautiful black-and-tan spaniel. others ran and fetched me shoes and a savage curse flung me off. derful in one of his bullc#nd caught me by The eyes of all four men were riveted to cap; and all-all, from the head clerk, who IIapyrigbt. 1SM by Stanley G. Wey-rin.) "To the Chatalet with him!" he cried, This at another time would have scared the collar. "What!" he s31d, "have you seen the dog, which, as I looked, walked sedate- was most Insistent, know spit- me to but was so the downward, would PART 1. ting out a tooth, and glaring at me through death; I far gone in dog?" ly first to the one pair. and then, as if dis- where the dog was. the mud on his face. "He'shall for wretchedness that I felt no fear and little "The dog?" I cried. "14; but I have seen satisfied, to the other and then But I had even It was about a month after my swing him pair; again then the sense to keep mhar- this! He tried to break in! I call you to surprise. I rolled away without a word, the king! I have held in my arms! He stood midway and sniffed the air. The my-secret, and would tell my story only to fiage-and third clerk to the most noble witness he tried to break in!" and, curling myself up at 'a dlstence of a is--" men were speaking, but I could not catch the bishop. He heard It: in ten minutes he the biskop of Beauvais, and even admitted "Ay, to the Chatalet! To the Chatalet!" few feet from my fellow lodger, fell in a He released me suddenly and fell back a even their folces, and was reduced to was his coach on his way to the house. on occasions to write In his presence and cried 'the crowd, siding with the stronger minute fast asleep. pace, looking at me so oddly that I paused. drawing what Inferences I could from their t me with him. His presence and the But Thee a mased When I awoke the sun it he said, "You have Getpped UF prepare lis minutes, who should marry if party. He was my lord of Beauvais' stew- daylight, though "Say again," slowly. appearan!e. food they had giveiPme had sobered me Shoulder. ard; I was a guttersnipe and dangerous. A was not up, was beginning to creep Into the held the--" Of the two farther from me, one was my somewhat; and I trembled as we went I might not?-4t was about a month after dozen shed. I bone I had I "The king! The king!" I cried, him one of the ladies came forward, nurs- hands held me tightly, yet not so turned; every ached; impatiently.. rascally bedfellow, the other a crooked vil- ing the dog in her arms. my marriage, I say, monsieur, that the tightly but that a coach passing at that remembered yesterday's doings, and groan- "In these arms. I kno* where they have lain, almost In rags, with one leg shorter ed. me rustled, him, or at least where the robliers are." than. ALI" The cardinal looked. "Unph!" he said. thunderbolt, to which I have referred, fell Imoment and driving us all to the wall, I Presently the hay beside the other, yet a face bold and even Ard he looked again, and shattered my fortunes. I rose one managed by a jerk-I was desperate by and over the shoulder of the mass against His double chin fell and his red face lost handsome. Of the nearer pair, who had I frowning. this which I I made out the face of a man, "Poor devil!" he said, still staring their did not know then why the queen took irorning-they were firing guns for the time, and fierce as a wildcat, to snatch lay color. backs to me, the shorter, dressed In heed even of his looks. and I started when victory of I remember, so that it myself loose, and in a second ias peering at me. I felt a thrill of fear, and at me. "They Jiave driven him mad!" black, wore an Rocroy, speeding "But-" I cried. "Are not ordinary aspect; when, she cried pettishly: "Well, Sir, what no?"' must have been eight weeks or more after down St. Antoine with the hue and cry stared back, spellbound; I had not yet you going to---" however, my eyes traveled to his compan- The cardinal his the behind me. broken with every habit of nor He waved me off and retreated a ion they it was was pursed up lips. death of the late king, and the glorious suspicion step paused. He, plain, The bishop could bear it no longer. "He rising of the sun of France-and who so I have said I was desperate. In an hour could in a moment recollect that I had hastily and crossed himself. "Jacques!" he the chief of the party, for he alone was will but which exclaimed. "Move him off! him say presently," he cried, snorting happy as I? A summer morning, monsieur, the world was changed for me. In an hour nothing rags to lose. In silence Move off, covered; and. thoagh I could not see his with indignation. "that it is not the and The I had broken with tradition of safe neither again broke much as a mo- do you hear, man?" face nor more of his than he dog!" bright, and I had all I wished. every by-so I figure .that His eminence shrugged his shoulders very river as it sparkled and rippled against the and modest life: and from a sleek scribe ment we waited gazing; while *the light In "But, I tell you," cried, fiercely, "they was tall and of handsome presence, it slightly, and turned the palms of his hands piers of the Pont Neuf far below, the wet be-come a ragged outlaw flying through the the mean hovel grew and grew, and minute have stolen the king! They have stolen his chanced that as I looked he raised his outward.

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