"DEAD MAY'S sage -- Ra 4 °* Saase vise Roly Ih oF Comin, was wy one - garden door," thought In a few minates a ian appeared in pt path ; be had on a straw hat and a lar apron. At was Fousoi, * "The gardener," said -- te hi maall. Foarel, uot seeing the young ma into the hallow, ol whech we ies re. spoken, and disappesred behind U yousg g rl had passed a very had weeping ced 8c king of i aolen. ™ best: --as she , she veut to leep. only to 'i Ae mented oy, ine spe nightmares: She'awok Poeicck and arove at once. a her face to efface the traces of 2 ap her haig and arrang red her Sot She tried .to we ork bat she heard Madame Fournier's Maescomroms her to breakfast. Not wishing toneem toattach teo-much insportance te events night Lefore,.she went * Madame Lureau kissed ber dangh Soke tecal, on the ferehead, but _-- &) me, nas oe ee _" contrasted with A tasia's joyou hana girl ate bat little, and after 'breakfast went tek to her nen "Phen, thinkin lo overcome her sorrow, 'she took' her | and started for the 80s j -oservant, who was sweeping tx, om the lower floor, told ssf that Larean had gone to 1 to her nap, and that Madame Fournier at to make some purchases but, day ber siay was long. » From the arbor Eugenie saw Fo and thought she would improve "the a io take a Tittle walk in the gar , gg Passing. by the garden door she Hee! wae nat ratte Closed. =A szuail stone had preven: from shutting, ead when Fourel ered ¢ the the belt 'Tailed to catch. mgenio's heart beat gore Rot resist the teripiation to ie for a few moments, from her pale n yo ard. Once across the threshold, charmed with , She om ~ father exerys in ~_ there sight off ; ory wathlay along pan aey thoughts and stooping bere and ck a flower, she suddenly came in aa-he a from his drawing to ge at the ok in tower. Although he saw only her profile _ ae her 8 in once. Be ver did a man n feel ry from his His crayon fell fre coe aa on aketch slipped down upon the "Oh &" exclaimed he. | But already surprise had n place ta ee joy. He bounc = to his fect, od-by a hi spring. dH } 'and Engenie this cry his whola soul went Hed poung girl started as if she -_ been! ty wwakened; and-rrised cart im se saw Lucien hurrying wowace oung man's name flew er) Swe attra ary rite 2, aut. CHAPTER IL SHE AND HE. remnai incl silent a moment looking fate cach other's eyes, as if etill in sont / Be whether it were she, she whet "were he. ~ Bat Lucien's brow waa radiant, " young girl's bowom heaved vioiently. "You bere, Eugenie 2" said he, " at Ville * tow happen? + and the, this ' far; f-away,~ near eters. ~ God, om, worked a miracle ren Opens Bhe trembled and looked upon him_ with "B frightened air. + "What is the matter?" he asked, > "Tam afraid we may be Weil, is it no longer allowable for a! man to talk to a young sirli in a pat b he ficlde * a "If you knew, you would understand; I am afraid less on my own accountsshan on your own. I know not whether ifs a pre- -- * _ someting teils me that you trige ether." bats a that I must go away at onsieur Lucien {" said she, in a aseceetic protest. forgi oa thes Pe bat alow fille ia but one word f have yo My heart and soul ani ite ie, Ben Engenie, is it teo much t make a. confession which it we Answer with a sin- sketch. 1 that was oaly the blackbird that jest now. See! there he.gocs." man,_"tyont Larean to ae = me? which r bara spoken, and looks "ne on you not to 4 eae ye tol mr n-! with doubt which wal is lost. Now we shall have to And jast aa all was within onr Curse the lack !" re closed hinwel/ tince you saw her. - I see with pain (hat «he ran! loves meas she. aoe! to. clear ont. ** That wakes me think of an ides tha tlgeasp once onent to me. A fe fore, Fo you eft Paris your mother wrote 'me, ¥ lg now ? g *"*Caln you rata Cowin Re ' Yen, « iS todd me." | Rut he td not "Well, lat onre thought that some an Pee leun' the reom _ eave pes: exited known gman had 1 nen speaking ill of ng hovribe "eri te yer be t ot That is thet ~ case, Lu * It would 2 been esandiite to without resorting te ax 1 proudly. * Bat | keovw now, Lugien, that they had an interest in ccyrating us «You embar/ rassed certain projects *T understand ; this marriage. * sé e%. "Well, I have no fears on eg time + a8 passed vehen a youn 4 made to marry against her will i ; "1 thank you for your contidence, Ln neieni ment Rabiot Lurest h: deserve it. But the time "Ah! a fine cape vve cut. Now tt: stat leave each other.' ; this. ctirsed i bap will rh poking his nose into "A tioment nore. Wheres thiyor _ four atta th reir yond hare --e are, in the house with the jremained in iret fren Iabiod grasp and © hiaten, lone ~ tear 5 e em! Finally re hied t sank fh Rabiot,~ a "things are not as bed as you , "Lo verheard the conversation, and tte tell -hins the name ot the | whom she is asked ta marry. 'his seemed to reassyre Ral es irel proc eodtest that score} scene of which he had been an in z girl e repeated what the y ; to her impr caamny, ca i clerenc out atre ta pee n we of our retrest, will | now tell 5 "Ramel and the Count de place that { was sketch | 5 course the latter cannot know ing whea you suddenly appeared | Eugenie t that the Widow Lurean is ( aire Guerin's it ts not chance that brought me here, but daughter, fut if he cpouses the rae of the Provitence. Hav » you been living at Ville} lovers, he will very hkely set him elf ath- r Avray long | wart of our projents. He is an old mad- * Why de you ask me that? We left man with a mania for hecaining © veryboily' s Paris to come her brotector, You may aswell go back to "Then you reer your mother have not Bpaugency and die in poverty on you! farm. been to the Sonth of France @morrow we shall have Lacien Morel, '* Did my.mothar write yout. that? | the Count, and bis son-in-law on our hands," "No; the jasitresa, Madame Gnaiaé, told ** Consin Rabiot, that must be prevented." 3s * How, I should like to know ? 1 Oh: if jonly had this Lucien Morel ! ¢ me." | Fourel looked furtively towards the door, coraialy all "has been pre- approached nearer to Rabiot, and said ina the young girl thought- low voice: " You can have him to-night if you want lowe we W hy, the very Soleure. " «Then re | dec: ae -- " They told her i _ Oh! how ully. "It was from Madame Grel: . "continued him." Lucien; *that-1 learned that a friend of your). Rabiot started. . take r, to whom M. Lereau hed lent -- ne "What T° said he, . five thousand francs, had restored them * Fie and the little girl hare made a ren- Madame Lureau." -- usin the garden at half-past ten. The a told you that!" "Why did you not say so before?" e young ¥ " You did not give me time. Tow Bie wold T have kiiown Tt? as sinister glean cane inte Rabiet's eyes: * Bat it is false, Lucien ; it is a lie!" So mutch the woree for him | Why did ** How about thishouse,thea,that Madame he come to Ville de A'Vray? When I meet exclaimed Larear ha chu real, and the money that shc an obstacle, I crush it. returne ltot "'ourel shivered. he borrowed fhe money to repay you ; id he she does not hire it, but Rab ot asked. ae as for the house, aE the" Rae" Beanheowsg, thet wr himrstart towards the woods," i "* Well, ic will he a good plan to watch got Do you: know widow whom you have seen once or twice. * Madame Fournier?" Go lack to the villa, cha your 7 Lo my mother has accepted her hoe) clothes, go in vearch of him, and follow him pitalit Fata: be sure to tell Anas " 'Dad she lend your mother the thousand tasia tal lock the young girl in her room frar to nye si an me, ° Yee." t I tell her what has h ap ypenerd? + ol " neal. She doea not need to know that we shall be waiting in the garden at' © wishes the marriage of half-past 10 for Lucien Morel, Just tell her tet Eugenie oe = reem. * She will swant.to.. "For wit Sinipty ma \ Biot' 2 t's orders. bly advised Madame "Tt i dy it one © f her relative es thst "whe w ranite 4 to marry ee "No, but I heg you, Lucien, not to talk ~ this man, whose very name frightent wie is Cousin CHAP bine XIV. BEFORE THE HOUR. re **Pormitme to bide it from you, sore While the two wrétche lotting a hing tells me that 1 should do wrong te new crime, Lacien had ¢ limbed 'ie hillside, ion him to you. He might .become your After following the edge of the weods for implicable enemy. a moment, he took the Urst path 'Theo, -- Eugenie, you should te el to and plunged into the underbush. w me -- he i eeking solitude and silence in order No, no; you might go and provoke |. ta give his thoughts free course. His heart. wi "God kno web ould follow. Oi) anc + _ swimming in joy what comananence: to you is » this man whow He founc Eo, i natin and she. h ' ld rather die than bd loved Bia: ;_she had t him_ 0, Doubt, his wife? ae int -" have been told te from which he had ied 80 ene. could, re is a conspiracy no longer gnaw at his heart. hore of y which bo both 'of us us are victims, Ian He _-- nofurther reason to envy Georges: alin the same asa prisoner , not Ramel Alexis Mellin, like themrhe:t allowed to go out, read, write, or see a was loved, and like them, at the begianing,| pei Bat lam ee to stay here - had his Egeria, the gentle fairy w r' »wer would inspire bim, one te tid-not-admit =the ~that? Eugenie could be taken -- him. She was love had given unfor- G ve tunate young girl wasted. his arm to defend me for saying it? bat I believe that if they her inst her oppressors, She bad no one were to put me to torture, she would ap to -- on bat _-- How ws proud: kg was to say to himself : **T will be her protector | ime passes quickly when one's thoughts lenre." on pleasant things. ae did not ss --rr~ hte 3 my situation were still mation the direction in which he was > going. frigh I would not leave my He had tied his portfolio and fol: tis sete it had time I would tell you together so t © seemed to be « ' inch more, hat Io mast go back- Toaday; bat one article. for the firet time; fanvontsiteof the Saddenly he stopped at a. larg the gardeaer pane carelessly left the do: t sheet of water, magnificently shaded with ¢ a 4 d. rovidence intended that | trees. He recognized the spot in a moment. shor see you. But Lam none the less ac He had visited 1t twice the year before. esca oa prisoner. 'dence in ine ; I love you ! ae started to go, let he seized her haad, "Ww hat is his name? r's accoun "Tie i ahh a aT ert Lucten y** bat that you suffer.' prove. "Eugenie, do not. return; I will take + } ed, m From Ville @' Avray hé had reached the! say 1 of Saint-Cucufa without suspecting the 2 t Seil detain you but a moment. You distance he had walked. He looked at his 'have not told me all Yet to-morrow I watch ; it waa 5.30. must tel! M. Ramel that I love you, and "I must retrace my @leps as quickly as must be able to explain your situation. possible," said he to himself, "and take care Therefere, it is absolutely nec ry that ] not to eng my way, for darknes may over: should see youagain: to-day." take me in the woods. Ati 7 "J o'clock he was still in the midst of It was the dinner hour at the t Then it occurred to bim are asleep, you will leave. and come down, When on the garden door I will climb over the oa it was too late to repair it. . Then we can talk for an hour, after '* Well," said he, "it is the first time which I can take the last train for Ver thatI ever failed to return on time; they; sailles." will not look ow it asa crime,an " ' Luci ien, = you wish this absolutely ?" )1 wili tell them of Madame Absoln | Eugenie." es Ve ry w 'all; I will hed there," - » Thus peeps. himself, he hastened on) And she started off ru ning. | The og rg A, He picked up the bona net which she hac would have voles dro meee gathered bed iis drawing imple! put him on the right path. s, and went aw ly through the =~ seven when he rowan' § came out of the oods above Ville d'Avra: thought no more of his unfinishee that 5 Seeeodn omen last," growled he, to-morro Lareau --_ g man taken a point of observation on top of the hill. He had to, | wait ~e ba CHAPTER iil. ONE AS GOOD AS THE OTHER, out from the hedge It waz Anastasia'y He ran to the door, througr, tau ; morning, a! thing, he cared not what, and 9 olock, I have og rome ick But myself into a meatng's pickle. pga use in dodging ; lien go and door ytions Now took out oa &@ moment for the sound of stepa. The gar- ge See emma 'And he started the cottage, --- there out-of breath. of tho tations: A periph ance ili t pendad ts bs foot: + Wh do you come back ? What has tapipenel 7 wy thousand thunders, Explain your. " Wall, when I came here a stone pre' a ee on and thea = el -- went out for a and met. ll to select a ing over. Roand = mat = Fart ¥ heav iy io - + F Ourel, TAU 4 ior somewhat, | alway igon- t to -- tad, anil saftly a ned hak: ke 6 EASON," abe Ras! | elab struck him on the nec | with a shudder and reco ; to Jend a hand. re revoir ; have confi- --_ clump of trees on the riglit he ie beast' Ww Rabiot, cynically. rnusnal, off in will, he rose to his fect. Examining the ince where he had fallen, he saw thas | not ~ t-- short of a 'miracle hod prevents Kwan predent, he tai P inishing the te and hands with | had stro . a bed é recognized jn to the villa, en be » vant Tes clep o the key w Fe > joel i hirty or forty feet. Pretenfiag Uiat the hs UU UT the 1 r @ cont" not Ww Sat Re porpeses tired her she went upstairs ¢ Maan ! _ i the anil Fournier an d Madame L ureat fifieen or te heard Anastasia git - and vascing her deo. «he ign that they x ight think 1! hat she he ler ane wy was in good out her -; had gone to hed. last there was si len e sacent, despair, bat his At c ; clined to courage ied be, ** T have ex d why sci ly to perish here of i st ou the tloor in dark- Gest) The door jy would pen and was gone, What did it mean ? Then ' "sh @ reme nabered kee! the noise in the hedze, and atonce it tashed y throngh the gardener had th heard all dl that they had prevented her irom leaving her room. i > grew cold with frigh i apee and her . and big tears salle 4 i wn a, int! ' * said she te poe tloor * wa abandoned Ship, 7 Tien he arose ag od began to shout ain at She f eyo elt ie nearly half-past ten, herself; 'he iv at the garden What will he think? If I nis enemy "might hear him "me to finish tin work by dropping ie, pon his head, This made his cree p- wing at his watch, 'he iat topped at twenty minutes past 6. lLoed frou the sun that it was And her tex Aus flow ed faster than ever. lock in the afternoon, f he could aby "* Dear " sho continued, by the network of ivy and clematis six they should care hier! Kar bdo wreng te yer cs above hin. . This thonght cansed his pe frightened. They simply wanted to stop eyes | the sto: around him, me from seeing him. e wil wait half an "+ # to make hour, and when he sees that T do not come, yards he will understand. Then he will return gr, to Paris, and to-morrow he will tell M. Ramel. He will induce M. Ramel and Count de Soleure to take pity on me. They withco meant save me thin wrete' het roe n life! . | a p She opened the iow and half opened, },,, rid le dreams ec awoke in the morning the blind, She could » a bet no} py more hauyry and thirsty than the garden, She listens " with al are] eva: , with stenaitty dlaniniching strength, thong convinced that she was too-far away bar with hic wiit wttid wneliahe o hear Lacien's steps. As soon as it was light he hgan his work "Pathe mtr --e, by the hense on his» , having te aah irennen He had way to the station, ught sha '*T shall cou a sleet his fourth step when, er lodging hear him, ant that will be encugh.' }@snare stone from its fos sition, he cause It ee half-past ten. }aevcral others to.fall away from him. y uarter of an hour Lucien's ear had seemed to disappear in darkness, and the 1 Lee o glued to the garden door, excavation before spoken of became wider . by a yard CHAPTER V. * What is this ?° said Lacien in _turprize, Sep "a cellacor suliterrapean passage? I must found that it e Foarel would Yura a deaf ear. pe) can do nothing, nothing. » fail ow Shae ss lying a6 a eo vee about the work. By the time a bad laid the bawe and two steps of his re darkness came on, Stretching upon the dry lewves again; be- fell 4 was tormented all uight by THE CRIME. find o: Sud denly the young man trembled with) y4¢ had six matches in his pocket. Light. Sie fe beard © light 4c pte a ing one, he entered the -- a e. aren seemed to hear the rustle of a ndergroune ¢ Hreathtesely he waited: re faking -- Se es a = aaen ss came nearer, and then the expected knocks. | other end, he a "whispered the young man. Livbting a second init : is fast as possible, and The el that he losing a moment Lucien has! he cn was © the chosen spot and hoisted htinsclf sedan ont half a bt wide, and ditt cf well. teelf. pr top of the wall with the agility of a qnented stones, like the well i -- -- pagar ings -- Pati ¥ His hope revived, Lucien did et pe o make, One, two----. But in 4), Ie had junping he either maile a false movement che i cd bis last match but one, ° 'aa in too great baste, for he fell upon nia! he brought up against a wall which hands and knees. jeleaed the passage. He could 3 no - sem he could rise a heavy blow from * The Mood began to swim in his @ gave @- + Allis o wi!" he mert che. 5 the cope aes aretchad on out motfinless on' ee in «+7 am lost." " - a pd --t he gave a _lioaras cry pair. He Eugenie heard the victia' sery. She rose ¢,; oa turn back, but his feet were fastened to the middle = the soil, His match went out, burning e room, Then che "peanded hack to } 'ingers, bat me dia = feel " pain. the blinds Ta & moment ! spasimodically, fe toe his" teenth failed en," she mar- j him. Unconscious he sank back in a mass 'against the wall that closed the pamage. CHAPTER VIL he and opened Bat she could not hear a thing. ** I must have been mistak mured. Fouret had dealt the terrible blew, know- ing the spot where Lucien intended to scale the wall, and Rabiot had given the rignal at the door, POOR ox Grn! "T have kitted | him with one a said after the crime, Fourel. entered the cooper to his accomplice, who came up fa tively and noisetessty the Httle pavition 5 here he slept, he noticed that Enyenie's a "ich fo the y wiatlowr and blinds wen open and that her worst of the jo is over, ichan wher was lighte ed But Fourel had relied too much on hiv He anxiously asked himself whether the bludgeon, which had made a hole in the young. girl bad not hoard something in spite skull from which the blood flowed ; Lucien 5; -- distance, At that moment, overcome was not as stone-dead a4 he su appeee d. by fatigue, she was undressing to » go to bed, As the two Loman were vbout to ne having waite: in vain to hear seas an BA. $0gh nntiltheawhistle of the locomotixe. "a. "Immediately hia eyes ope ned wide that the last train had gone. Still, in s and he tried to rise he of rest, it was half past 3 Sut Rabiot rushed =-- < --_ w ace die a wih i th o cl he wed her eyes ant ofiet 3 ise and wciset i him by the throat, He soma ceased to breathe, but first caught a glimpse through the mist which veited his eyes of | the assassin's horrible blac ** T have choked him!" wait Rabiot ; hd fingers are worth more than a No let us make haste. following out the plan which they had_« !agreed upon, they carried the body to the old sala prev rerinenls referred to and dropped itin. Atthe depth of about three yards it canght in the network of clematia and ivy, ad straightaway she went into the gar- where it hung for a moment, bat the weight aun still thidking of the ery that she had of the body loosened the roots and scan « heard inahe night. Fourel, who was mow- ---- announced that their victim was ing a grasa plat, watched kel out of the cor- at the bottom. - of his eye. She w walkec heey a path to " Now let bin come up if he likes,' said a garden door, and, g there nothin Th : tn fol lowed the aa further, ~~ cir on Y ws 'ated stars and God, "They L eta Tae by ae gel Besides, they did gprovacftnt Fourel had been aereg befare =p ae 'her and had raked it all over. Neverthe- rat less the -- rirl's eyes noticed a spot Fourel went back inte the garden, closing yhe s the eart » A had --. freahly leveled, the door oa" while Rabiot hu a ao ehe saw che that the branches of a to the - alte /siral had been recently cat. This did not ' . . tell her much, bat it her terrible HAPTER) ER VL | en -tion, and she trembled. "ourel also trembled as he saw the young t the place where Lucien h Rabict, in his earlier days a blackemith; at 2 place ien at But she soon re.entered the house, had ory strength in his arms i he nd he need recovered his calmness, i th wered Rabiot, coldly, ' to 7 ore when she aw Slip ping out of bed ~ first thing that she hd was to look atgher door. A singular smile played over her lips as she observes that it was no longer locked. When she went downstairs Madame Lurean and dame Fournier were taking their coffee, "We did not call you," sail Anastasia, supposing that you would like to have your sleep out. om were quite right in not waiting for " for Lam not hang ery.' All was qniet around thera. witnesd had been the were not afraid of th ose. 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