Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1893 — Page 12

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MARRIAGE BY EXPRESS. I Ludovic II levy in tli9 Taris Tiaro "When your naue ia Luynesor LaTremoilie I cr.n easily understand that there is some stisiuf.iori in becoming the father ot race of Lnyne&es or Tremoli!.-, ilsrt upon my word ii you are cal.ei I ha-r.L'ur l, what possible interest, 1 ehr uU ike to know, can a fellow take in the Luslne ?" Si spoke you::? Kaotil Chamblard, lounic comfortably in hi. seat of re.l velvet, on the L'.,th ot March, IM'2, in a drawing-room car of tho Marei.l exjress, which had f t:rted from Paris at 8:50 a.m. Young Chamblard wss tailcin to his friend Maurice Kevoil o, who wa returning a iter a sixiacntba furloui toLii residence in Alle.-s. The lieutenant ot the Chasseur d'Afriijuo aas'vcre 1 his friini' question wi'ba noacouamUlin,; shruz, and Kaul ntnton: "All the same, that h mv ntbt-r' Used

idea there trust beL'b mbl.irus to follow ua! And as the governor has but ona on, j it dauüves cu do to be the hapry instrument." j "Well, then, be tha happy instrument." i "But, my dear ft-ilow. a m only twentyfour. It i hard lines to have to nmrrv at twenty-four, and it -eem to m that I am entitled to a little more amusement and in fict to a good deal rtore I" '"Weil, then, amuHeyoursoif." "I've certainly done it ao far. I have amused myself, and no ruiit.ike. Iut ny tastes run to somewhat expensive pleasures. I can't enjoy lifo without money, and I've come to my last haif-pency. Thick ol that my last hulf-pennv 1" "(letout! You're as rich fta On sua !" "That's whero you make u nii.-take. TVhea I came of ace three yetrs nzo I im i what my mother left me. he was not verv rich, j.cor mother only ('0,t.nj francs! It was pretty wed n love match for tha governor. I poon ran through the '00,1)00 trancs and iu common decency could I epend le?3 thtn that, with such a father as I -have? The governor is tremen.loualy rich.1' "zo evervbodr eay." "And they say riitht. He has 12.000,000 well tied up that nothing can touch, and bis bank brings him in. one vear with another, 300,000 or 400.CUO francs, in addition to the interest ou the 1 1'.COO.OOO. You coulda't name a Bounder bouse - lhan Charab'ard's 6te.idy-zoinjf, honBot and more than rvepccrable. The governor doesn't do mo justice, but upon my eoui I can be just to him. The governor has only one vice. Every day at his club, from 5 to 7, h3 plays piquet for 10-sou points, lie keeps an account of his prames as scrupulously as he does everything e'ee, on J the other day he waa telling tne that his piquet had brought him a clear 2(J0 in the last twelvemonth, lie has a stall at the opera only for the music, not the ballet and never seta foot behind tha pcenes. Anyhow, my father Is what you rniirht oali a downright eood fellow. He ia a model of all the virtues, j . end he is never tired of puttinsr something by for me. But, to speak frankiy, I confess he is just now putting by a little too much. Ü9 has cut oif tha supplie?. If I "won't marry, ho won't tivo me any money be had said it in so many won!. That ia his program. And he has picked cut a wife for me, three wives, iu fact."' "Three wives'" . "That's so. He came to my room one mcrning and said: 'We must c, me to the point. Here, look et thi list I He had eet down the name?, the fami iv!?, the dowries it was drawn up in descending order of the dowries. I h id to ijivo in I areed to an interview with Number One. They managed it in the ChampsElysees, a the i-aion there. Uh! Number One was dried up stale, hoi. v, pimple fac-d:-' , ''Then why did your father?'' "Whv? üecauso ehe win dajjhter only daughter to a lioubaix i::anu"facturer in a lare way of business. It was magnificent! We were to start with lOO.OuO trances a year en rach eide, and Eventually, if the thin,: answered the'r ?xpectatioi)s. there was to be a shower of millions. Tho governor was m ecstasies over the idea that all his millions in l'arjg would in one day grow into an enormous ' pile with ail those millions from Kotib-iix. You may be nura the millions would not - frighten me, if only they could accompany a lovely, a very lovHy wile, with good ityle any amount of style. And that ii my program, don't you know! I must be able to take my wi: to the front boxes at the theater without having to blush for her before the attendant." . "What! before the attendants?' "Why. certainly. I am known; I havo a reputation to lose. Thoä box-opener, my, dear boy, are always the same; and fou bet that they know me! For liva or lix years they have seen ma coming with the best known and best dressed people In rris. So, don't you f-ee. I could never have dared to show up befora them with lhat Roubaix btick. I tried to nuke tho governor see that, as delicately ns I con'.d; but there L no ariuin with hira. Tijere are aome things he doenn't nnderstaial, . and can't understand. I don't biame him forthat he telcgs to another genora- . tion, and I belop? to the present one. i3 I put my fool down, and declared I would neyer marry Number One. -Mind you. I spoke to the governor in the most eensible manner. I said to him: 'You want me to have a homo of my own' an interior,' as he put it - 'but when I l ave furnished this home with a Si-arecrow to frihten the parrows away it wil: fill rn with dissruet, this interior of yours, and I shall be compelled, irresistibly compelled, to tix up for myself a little exterior. Thus I shall hav an establishment within and an establishment without and won't the money fly then!" Kut the coveruor refutes to listen to anything. He dwn't Pte that I can't do without a pretty little wife, pretty and nie in the Parisian style; that i- to say, origin!, bright, a trilie mischievous, with a p; ice of deviltry in her, a wif that would bs locked at in the street., and wonli hava o; era-glisses leveled at her in the theater, one who would do me credit and aive rne a certain distinction. I inut be able to carry on my bachelor life with her as lon as j o-;ible. And then there is something else w hich I can't say to the governor. He in called Chamblard net hii binlt: r.n.y the conscmence is that 1 am calle-i Chamblard too, and it is not altogether ea-y to ptih yourself in society with guch a name. A lovely, a thoroughly have. L-.ok r.t llohineau. He has iusvi been eiecb-d at the little club in the line Hoya e. It is not exactltr thft Union or the Jockey, but 11 the eame you can't get into it for the asking And why did l!oDineau etin ? ' "The f.ord know." "liei ause he hss married a delightful wife, and this de ihtiol wife is a lirstclsen katrr. Ali the aoers had reme gos-iu a nl the exquisite, the charming, the idal lime. Ilobineau. ..She came to the front all r.t once, and then Jtobineau came to tho front a we 1. He was elected at tha club aix wetks later. - Now, tho governor does not understand the importance of these things. It is all so much Jlebrew to him. lint atiil, a he hail absolutely cut elf the supplies, I was obliged to knock under and consent to an interview with Number Tw o " "And what was Number Two hke?' "What was she like, my dear fellow? . Ehe is the daughter of a merchant at Antwtrp maiif in Belgium! We bad . tried the provinces, and now we went abroad, Erideatl tho governor does not

like Parisians. My mother came from Chatte'.lerault. and she was a saint if tnere evrrwasone! Well, at theOoeraComique last night, in Paris, they i-howed me Number Two a great blonde, stupid, runscuiinn Flemish creature a liuhens! A regular Hubens? Imagine a giante?, a co;osal woman taller by a head than I am. It would be phvsically impofcilie to pet her into a tinge box, and they aro tue only ones I care about. When we camp out of the theater I told the governor that I liked number two no better than I did number one. I paid I had had enough, and would not even see Number Three. We had some words over it. When the governor left u.e he banged the door, shoutinir: 'Not another sou will you get from me!' And I knew lie meant it, tvo. I went to bed, tl.ouh not to 8'esp. Try as I might I could eee no escape from the big clawa of the Antwerp woman when all on a sudden, about." in the morning, thre came a Ptidden Hash of light. I conceived an idea which I Ventura to c:Jl a Mroke of genius." "I haven t a doubt of it." "A stroke of geniu! I knew that you were leaving today for Marseilles, early io the morning; so I bolted in English fashion, and without takinz the governor into ir.v coutidence. 1'y and by, at the first 6top, at Laroche I've been looking in the time tables I mean to eend my father this telegram." With an air of triumph Paoul drew a parer from his pocket. "It's all r.-ady listen: 'To M. Chamblard, S ltuf de Pougemont. II aria: l.srocln-station. I have left with Maurice by the Marseilles express. I an going to make a journey around the world. It won't take me mora than six months. I have engaged a h rth in the Irawaddy by telegram. Leave tomorrow for Singnpore. Anything rRther than the Flemish nilianc?. (inod-by. Your afiVetionate Fon awfully sorry to leave you Raoul Chamblard.' There, now, ian't that a capital dispatch?" "Not so Lad ; but you don't mean it seriously ?" "I do, though ! I shall start if I don't getan answer from the governor before I reach Marseilles. But I shall get one; and that for two good reasons. My governor is logical, and he wil. pay : 'What good am I doing myself hy this? Instead of netting iato mischief with the white beauti-a of Paris, he will be doing it with the yellow ones at Singapore.' The second and the last reason is that he worships me and can't do without me, and the little bit of sentiment at the end of mv telegram will go straight to his heart. I'll telt you how all this will come about. My mesaazo leaves Laroche at 11 :20, and the governor will get it by ll':30. I bet you' 10 louis that 1 shall find at Dijon or at Macon, in the station telegraph ollice, a message addreseed to me, Having, "Coiu back. Antwerp match dropped.' It will be in nigger phrase, will the governor's telegram, because he is methodical, and leaves out useless words. Is it a bet?" "No, I should lose." "That you would. Have vou any papers?" "Yes." They rea l three or four dailies. Tt took them a quarter of an hour, and aa they read they exchanged a word now and then about the new ministry, the races at Auteuil, Y'vette Guilbert especially about Yvette Guilbert. Young Chamblard had been to bear her the evening before last, and he hummed the tag: Vn G.ion! r.lhiil trottinant (' ih'n oihn lljaia: Hop!! 1'n f,..ti- ..iiuit tr tl.ii.uit Ja, .no tvee tin coclier b an". The Chasseur d'Afrious had to confess that he bed never heard Y'vette (.iui bert eirij "Le Fiacre," and young Chamblard raised his arms in ftstoni-uiciont. '"Never heard Le Fiacre?' And you have been threo months on leave. What did you co-ia to Paris for? 1 know it bv heart." He began to hum it rgam. As he hummed bis voice becauiH gradually slower and weaker, he eank back in his seat and he was soon peacefully asleep, like tne overgrown baby that he was. Suddenly he a woke with a v tart. The train had pulled up at Laroche. Y'oung Chamblard ran to the telegraph and the clerk stolidly counted the words. "Take your seats, going on !' Chamblard had only jtist time to spring on to the footboard of his carria. "Whew! That's done!" he etil to the Cha?seur d'Afrique. "What do you pay to breakfast?" "By all means breakfast." They went together to the diniug car. It was a regular journey, for there were two drawing room cars between them and the restaurant, and these two cara wera both crammed. The express was dashing along at full epeed. pitching aa it went, and one needed to have one's sea legs on. Then a vehement gust of wind caught the train, buried it in clouds cf dust, and made the gangways anything but easy to pass. They prcsed through tho first car, the first gangway and the first squall of wind with considerable dithculty. They managed the second car. and L hamblard, who was leading the way, found it as much as he could do to open the door of the eecond gangway. It resisted bis efforts under the pressure of the wind, but yielded at last; and theu Paoul received ctimult:neouly a blinding whirl of dust iu his eyes, and in his arms a golden-haired young damsel, who cried: "Oh. I beg your pardon." He also' cried: "Oh, I beg your pardon!" whilst at the eame moment he was run into by the Chasseur d'Afriijue, who, blinded like bis friend bv the du-d, exclaimed: "Get on, Paoul! Get on!" The wo jjingway doors were closed, and the trio were shut up iu the little corridor at the mercy of the wind youug Paoul, young Maurice, and the young damsel with the goidett hair. Her "beg vour pardon!" was followed by "M. Maurice !" which elided a "Mdlie. Marthel" Tho young damsel with-tho golden hair knew the chasseur, and perceiving that she was a'mostxu the arms of au unknown man ehe drew btck and made a masterly retreat to the ed'e of the car.

I did not know you were in the you train," 8ho paid to Maurice. "Are going aw ay , "Yes, to Algiers." "We are going to Marseilles. I was just fetching a shawl for mamma, who felt the cold. She will be eo p. eased to see you. You will find. her in the restaurant. I shall be back directly." "Let me be your escort." "You are very kind." She disappeared with a slight inclination of the head for young Chamblard, who stoo l as if bo had been turned to stone, gazing at Mdde. Martha with eyes full ot adiiiiratiou. She had junt had time to observe that he was a very good looking youth, dressed irteproachablv, and that he waa gazing at her with large and somewhat stupid eyes. But she could divine in thete eyes a thought which was naturally not displeasing to her: "Ah! mademoiselle, how lovely you are! ' Aa for K.iaul, he was satin, tojliimself: "This is ray ideal, distinctly mv ideal! That sttnp.e traveling drees is the beat poBsible form 1 And that cao, a trills on one side, just over the ear that cap was perfection ! That it a girl who knows how to dre6fl'.Vhe would make a hit in a Btagebox! That spice of English accent, too!" She had, in fact, a little Knzlish accent. For years past sue had taken a vast amount of trouble to catch that slight accent. She would aay to her English Uacher: "Oh! yes. Miss Butler, 1 do want to know English; but eti l more do I want to talk French with an English acceot," the had given moat of her tima to

that; and fortunately she bad been rewarded for her perseverance, and her httlo Anglo-Parisiaa brogue was at times quite orig nal. Whilst .Maurice was retracL-jg his ateps with Mdlle. Marthe, Iiaoul took hia seat at a table iu the restaurant car. Presently he saw them return together with her mother'a ahawl. Maurice remained for a few minutea by the table where the ladies were at breakf ast with the brother of the golden-haired damsel, and then he 'cauie back to Kaoul. Aa soon aa be came a p. Paoul broke out. "Who is that? Tell roe quick who it is! Now, I'd man-y that girl if they like, straight away, the moment we leave the train. In mv very arms I held her in my arras! Talk about figures why, abe'a a dream! There ar veyr different sorts of awelhna figure., d on't vou know ! You can hav slender figures which are hurd, rough. Bti:', bony, vamped up bv those dreadful stays and 1 have devoted a good deal of study to the theory of the cornetit is one of great importance. Then again, there is the genuine sort of eienderness. easy, natural and melting. No, melting does r.ot came up to the idea of what has just flitted by me elided between bauds. Unctuous! yes, that ia the word to suit it! unctuous! That is my impression to a nicety. Cnctuoua is the word!" Paoul was frankly delighted with bis talk. "Ah, yes!" he went on. "she is unctuous. And that little nose in the air! And those little eves in tne air, too! Ctterly Chinese! Everv bit of her, in short all in the air! Who 'is it? Ted me, who is it?" "She is the daughter of one of my mother's friend?." "Bich?" "Ver.r." "I was thinking of the governor when I asked that, for I declare I would marry her without a penny. It is the very first time I have naid such a thing about any girl. And what is her name?' "Mademoiselle Marthe Derame." "Derame ! You said Heraine?" "I did." "You don't mean to say that her father is a merchant, trading with Japau and

China?" "That is the man." "My dear bov. I can't believe it. This is the sort of thing you only meet in tho vaudevilles of the smaller theaters." "What is tho matter with you now?" "Thematter with me! Why, that is the governor's number three ves, number three! The father of thi little wonder is one of the governor's piquet friends at the Old club ami I wouldn't aee his number three! And here it comes tumbling luto my arms on a gangway between 1'aris and Lyons! After breakfast you must introduce me. end I will tell tho mother everything." "Not everything!" "Yes. every word that her daughter is my father's number three that I would have nothing to say to numbers one and two, but that I am quite ready lor number three. Oh, my dear boy, how lovely ehe is! That nose esuecialiy, bo beautifu ly tiited ! She waa looking at ine then. And in a peculiar way I am sure she doesn't dislike me. Did you ta k about me? Did vou mention mv name?" "No." "Why didn't you? But you will after breakfast. lo you know it ia my belief that this atlair will simply run as if it was on wheels. The first thing to do is to telegraph to the governor and then tomorrow oh, by Jove ! I wonder if there is a telephone between Paris and Marseiiles !" He stopped ehcrt and called the waiter. "Is there a telephone between Paris and Marseilles?" "Yes. sir!" "Good business thanks. Think of that, Maurice there is tho telephone! The governor will mak the proposal tomorrow by telephone. That will bo capital. Marriage by express electric, telephonic and romantic ad at the same time. Between a littie face of that sort and a jcurney round the world, don't you see. I have not the slightest hesitation. But how is it you havo never thought of marrying her?" "Oh, that is too big a match for me. And men then, you 5.e she is not exactly the sort to go and lory herself in an Algerian garrison town. She is a Parisian, and out-and-out Parisian, who wants to be amused." "That just suita me suits mo down to the ground. That's me all over! I want to be amused, she means to be amused. I mean to be amused, we both mean to be amused." Young Paoul was beside himpelf with joy ; and as noon as he had finished breaicfast he indicted a new message for hi.s father. Even as he wrote he continued to talk in grett excitement. "I shall send my telegram from Dijon and I shall address it to the club the governor will be there about 5 o'clock and bo will the father of the little phenomenon. Thew will be able to talk the thing over straight awav. Can I ask for an answer to Lyons? Y hers is tho time table? Just hand me that time table. Lyons, 5:25 no, that woul be too quick. 1 shall get the answer at Marseilles. Are thev stopping at Marseilles? Yes. For a day? Capital -so shall .1. What hotel? Hotel de Noailles? . Capital so ehall I. Send answer to Hotel Je Noaillos. My telegram ia first rate--you shall see it in a minute. It is as good aa the other nay, better. I haye a regular knack for telegrams today. Yes, it is firt rate." He wrote and wrote, glowing with in epiralion and rapture; and after he bad read hie message over again, with vaet eatiafaction, he hhowed it to Maurice. The cnasseur found the whole thing verv entertaining, though he tried not to laugh. "When Paoul had counteU the words in his te'egram, he said to the waiter: "I want you to 6end otr this messag at Dijon. Here are 10 francs, and there will be two or three left over for yourself." Then, turning suddenly around on Manrice, he said : "And vou are leaving tomorrow? What o'clock?" "At two." "Oh ! then there will be time. Everything will be setlled by 2 o'clock." "S-tt ed? You must be mad!" "Not at all; it is already in good train, seeing that she was the governor's Number Three. There is on y one thing I w.int you to do, and that is to introduce the mother at ouce. After that you can leave me alone, I will answer for all the rest. But we must change cars at any cost and pecure two places near my mother-in-law." "Your mother-in-law!" "I said my mother-in-law. Once find the two places and I am mnster ot the sitnation. You don't know me. I have made up my mind what to aar to tho mother, what to say to the yonng brother-in-law he is quite a nice-looking fellow and what to eay to my fiancee. I shall have won them all over before we are at Lyons. Well, Lyons no, that is rather rapid, say Valence or Montelimar. Jut hand me the time table. Let us have everything cut and dried ; wo must leave rot'hing to chance. Oh, do look at her. She has been cracking nuts for the last quarter of an hour, and bow she cracks them. Jim a little enap with her teeth and crack 1 What darling little teeth they are! She is as pretty as aver when ehe eats that is a great point. Women who are pretty whilst they eat or sleep are very rare. But this dear creature she eaia like an anirell Crack! there goes another not! And abe'a looking at me under her eyes 1 can see she's looking at tne! Oh, the whole thing is going aplendid!" And in fact everything did go iplendidljr. At Montbard, where they were due

at 12:32, the introduction of Eaoul to Mme. Derame took place. Aa eoon aa she heard the name of Chamblard she gave a little start the little start of a mother with a marriageable daughter, as ehe thinks, "Oi, what an excellent, match !" The fact was that her husband bad often spoken to her of young Chamblard. "lie would make a capital husband for Marthe. Chamblard and I talk of it now and then over our piquet, but the young fellow ia restive and will not settle down. It would be first rato. Chamblard ia richer than we are, twice or three times as rich. And Marthe ia herself agun9t marrying. She haa already refused five or six thoroughly suitable matches, under one pretext or another. They did not take her lancy; one was too old, another bad no sty e, another lived in an unfashionable quarter she would not marry into sugar, nor yet into cottou, nor yet into wine, nor into anything else for that matter. Nothing will suit her but a very young husband, and he must be too grave. Sne insists on having somebody who is very rich, with nothing to do and fond of pleasure." How exactly tho younger Chamblard tallied with "this sketch! If it came to doing nothing Paoul showed talent of the first order. No soouer did the conversation turn on hordes, doga, carriages, hats and bonnetfl, drfges, jewel, races, fencing, skating, cookery and the like, than be gave evidence of the rarest and highest ability. Then they fell into general conversation. Paoul was very brilliant a9 they neared the Chalons sur-Saone at 3:10, relating how ho bad devised a wonderful little brougham, thoueh he did not mentioned that th'.a brougham was presented by him to Mile. Juliette Lorpheliu of the corps de badet at the Foiies-Bergere. It was a marvel ot a brougham. It was Pinall, as a brouuharn ought always to be, but a great deal was compressed into a little space. There was the indispensable toilet drawer, a secret money box and jewel case, a clock, a thermometer and a barometer, a slide for writing but all this was nothing. He grew animated and excited as be spoke of his achievement. Marthe was listening to him intently. "When you raised the four panels of the brougham you wore naturally in the dark, but the four panels were lined with lookinglassea. Then you had only to press a knob concealed in the cushion on your right, and six crystal drops ingeniously arranged in the blue eatin lining of the brougham instantly became bo many electric globules, and your boudoir was lighted up. Not for five minutes, mind, but lor an hour, or for to hours if you liked. There was an accumulator under the seat. When I gave this idea to my carriage builder he was overcome with envy and admiration." Marthe was a so overcome. "Vhat a charming man!" ehe 6aid to herseif. "I only wish I had such a brougham! Not blue though I don't care for blue." Then they went on to speak of jewels, bonnets, dress; and Paoul distinguished himself more than before, if that wtro possible, on all these questions. He had paid ever bo many long accounts from fashionable dressmakers, milliners and jewelers. He had been present at ever so many consultations on the design of some particular dress, or the arrangement of aome particular costume, and at ever 6o many trvings on and at fittings. Aa be could draw very fairly he used, as he finely put it, to throw his ideas on paper w ithout being asked. He had even designed the costumes of a little piece for the stage, which w as played at pome little theater devoted to the interpretation of revolutionary, anarchist, aymbodc ideas ideas of decadence and deliquescence, ßn de biec e, fin du monde. He took out his note book and pencil, and lightly sketched a few of his creations, in spite of the shaking of the train. He had plenty of tact and thought of everything. "It was for a set of charades," he said, "played to very nice people, at the house of my friend Baron So-and-ao." He invented tho baron on the spot and gave him a fine name, which waa highly ellective. Marthe was carried away. Never had anybody struck berat being such an original and attractive talker. "Not ho long ago," said Paoul, "a cousin of mine, who has a way of coming to me for advice, consulted me about a ball dress for the carnival at Nice. Let mo tell you what I recommended to her. Here I'll draw it as I go along. Ijok. mademoiselle!" You may be ture that she was looking! "I will try to make myself understood. A clingiug dress of blue satin I am awfully fond of bitte." She felt sorry ; she hated blue. "A clinging dress. I said close-fitting mv cousin has a splendid figure, and can afford to do that" Ho glanced at Marthe and his glanco implied "so could you!" She understood ami blushed blightly at the delicate flattery. Paoul went on: "Pale blue satin of the palest blue; and over the satin skirt a roba of Pompadour laca with very soft ahades of fcreen. pink, mauve, cream and deep blue. Then wide double b eeves of blue velvet, with Venetian lace cull's. Do you see what I mean?" "Thoroughly." And with a sympathetic voice she repeated: "Double eleeves of bine velvet, with Venetian lace cutis." Suddenly the train stopped with a jerk, and the porters were crying, "Macon 1 Ma-

con V "Macon o soon?" said Marthe. That "bo soon" had a delightful sound in Paoul'g eare. It mean't a tood deal, that "ao soon!" Paoul occupied the five minutea of the stoppage in completing and tourhing up his little sketch, which waa somewhat disjointed, and he did not observe that his young brother-in-law had gone to the telegraph otfico with a u easage. It had beeu privately w ritten out by Mme. Derame; and this also was diapa'ched to the Old club. ' The train departed at 4 :11, and Paoul bad not even thought of getting out to see if there was a telegram for him in the office window. And there was one, too, which was permitted to lie at Macon forever. It was a message of five words only "Come back, Antwerp scheme dropped.1' On and on rushed the train. Another dress w as under discussion now a pea u de eoie of delicate pink, with bows ol guipure lace running down the front. Paoul litterly dazzled Marthe by his inexhaustible wealth of learned and technical expressions. As the express was dashing through the station of Poinaneche at 4:32, Ch ambler, the elder, walked into the cardroo it at the Old club and met his friend Derame. "Shad we have a game at piquet?" "Delighted." Thy set to work at once. The first piquet ended in ft defeat for old Derame, and fie second waa just beginning when a too", Jian come np with a telegram for M. Chamblard. "Excuse me," he aaid. "By all mein." . As he rea 1 his face flushed ; he read it again and crew crimeon. It was Paul's hrilliant dispatch from Dijon: "My dear fathsr, 1 have abandoned my journey. MoHt extraordinary meeting 1 Your Number Three actual. y your Number Throe in tho train with her mother and I had refused to see her! Oh, if I hud only known! Let us strike whilst the iron ia hot I'm striking, and you mnst strike. Monsieur D. is aure to be in the clubspeak to him s'rtight off. Tell him I ran away bo at not to marry an ugly woman that I would only marry for Jove that I am madly in love with bis daughter. This evening we shall be at Marseilles.

S SUFFER VCTwa tMr tester Fking are literally Ox Ftm w-r.a lt Lin? tr.l liurniai; F.ivemi. auJ other ltcbiug, fceaed Blouby fckin and Sctip Lio-, wun i.'st or ji.iir, Bene t.ut rno'hrr ronlire. To know tm a tiagic applicutioa ol the CUTICURA Remedies will afford Jrame. diuie n-lief, poriuit rest and tlcep, and pon.t to a petdy find ITfMmniir-'il w fe tiifm, ia to r..il in yrl!T duty, rareots, your chillix n ei.r cf nit-J-1cm nfTeria? from tortures and di"tiurinsr eruption, t'rriccn Ucmeuils are the reaTet Un cores, til-xj purit't-re, and liumor remedies cf modem t'rr.es. frold everywhere. Pütteb LVQ axd CninicAt, C'oEPor.ATioN, Loton. &3" How to Cure fckiu DUeasc " mal'.od free. BABY'S 6LIn end Palp twilled and beautified by Cctictiu So.u. Atfcciutc'y pure. PAi:i3 f.?iD WEAKNESSES 'Mi-fi'-H? c:iovc3 In one minute by th;.t row, Xir'aJ? elf i.mt, and inf:i!iiMe Antidote to Pain, Ci? Inflammation, nrd Wnk:uiS, th!uli. cur.. AuU-1'a.u l'Uftrr. Octets. Hotel de Noailles. Let Montier D. advise Mme. 1). by telegraph. I will ask for you on the telephone tomorrow. At this moment she is cracking nuts. Lxquisite! Hie is exquisite! She bll in my arm on the gangway. Telephone tomorrow at!"t." The excitement of M. Chamblard could not escape the notice of M. Derame. "Something serious'.'" he asked. "Yes." "Wo will stoo the play if you like." "Yes. But tell me, did Mme. end Mlie. Derame leave this morning bv express for Marseilles?" "Yes. at S:50. "Why do you ask? There hasn't been an accident?" "Oh, no no accident. You could hardly call it an accident more hke Put come, come along into the other room." Then he told him everything, showed him the dispatch and gave him the necessary explanations as to "number three." The fathers of the two young people were both convulsed with mirth, and in ecstasies of delight over the providential meeting. "Why, you said your eon did not want to marry." "No more be did; but he has seen your daughter and now be is quite willing. Come, now, send ft telegram at oace to Mine. Drame." "Won't she be thunderstruck at beine introduced to a sou-in-law by telegraph!" Here the footman came bacx again. This time it was a telegram from M. Doram. "This is from my mid" be said, "at Macon, 2:15." Capital !" said M. Chamblard 'The affair makes progress." "Am much disturbed." the message ran. "Have come across the son of M. C. Pue Kougemont, your club friend on the train. Introduced by Maurice. You have often spoken of a possible alliance in that 3uarter. He is evidently charmed by her. ust now ho is talking to her, and looking you know how. What is to be done? Check: or let things take their cour6q? Larue fortune, I believe." The elder Derame bIiowb histe egrram in his turn to the elder Chamblard, and they go on talking in the best possible humor and agreement. Then they Btart their piquet again, after sending otT two telegrama to the Hotel de Ncai les. The first message, to Mm Derame. ran thus: "If you like, if she likes, yes. L'normous fortune." And the second, to Paoul: 'Spofren to D. Is telegraphing to Mme. D. He approves ; so do I." A footman takes both messages to the oflice in the Place da la Pourse. And whilst they sped along the wires and overtook the express about liiliOo'c ock io the neighborhood ot faint-Kainbert, the Derameg, with Paoul and Maurice, were dining together at tho table in the best of spirits, as familiarly as possible. Marthe was gazing at Paoul. and Paoul was gazing at Marthe, and Mme. Derame waa eaying to herself: "Marthe is falling in love I know ehe ! is falling in love. Hie did it last year, at a ball, with a very handpotno young man, ' but he had not a sou. This time, luckily, 1 Edouard told me there is plenty oi money; so, of course, if Marthe is willing, so are We. The train rushed on and on and Paoul never ceased talking. He even past-ed away from actualities and eoared into the region of general ideas, vigorously expounding the theory that the first uuty of a woman was to display refined elegance in all things. With endless detail he explained what a perfectly correct life in the social sphere implied and what a perftctly elegant woman ought to be. And in imagination ho took bis KIe?ant Women from Paria to Trouville, from Trouville to Lake ('omo, from Como to Monte Carla And he drew a picture of the elegant woman's traveling trunks a wonderful set of trunks. Besides, he was also the inventor of a trunk, for he bad invented heaven knows what! Very daintily then he put tho young Marthe through a sort of examination, which bore no resemblance to the examination of the Sorbonne or the Hotel do Ville. Did ehe skate? That was what hu wanted to know first of all. He was himself a distinguished skater and wanted to meet witti a woman devoted to eport. He no ftooner' mentioned skating than her youcj brother how invaluable young brothers can be at times exclaimed: "My sister just van ekate and no mistake! Y'oitahould see her doing eights I And ehe can swim, too, like a tid!" !She skated ! She swam ! She was fond of sport! With quiet enthusiasm Paoul paid to the girl: "I congratulate you, madamoiselle ! A woman who does not swim is no woman!" And with rising vehemence he added: "A woman who does not ekato is no woman I" Whan a forcible idea occurred to him, he bad a way of going back to it, concisely and strikingly." Marthe was glowing with delicht. She was a thorough woman! Never bad a tr oro pleasant speech been addressed to her. Night wa3 coming on, and it was necessary for the time to interrupt this delicious conversation, and return to theqrawingroom tar. Young Derame was already asleep. Paoul's expositions were on too high a plane for him. On their reiurn journey they came to the gangway where they had first met in the morning. She wa3 walking in front of him, and he said to her, in a low voice: "It was here, this morning" And she turned around with a smile. "Yes here, this morning!" There was fctiH the same slight Endlich accent which she never dispensed with, even under the influence ot a etrong emotion. "Here, ft!iia morning!" That was all and it eaid everything. What an exquisite night it was! The rain was over,.the wind had fallen. They had swept into tho atmosphere the charm, the sweetness of the South. The moon chased every vistage of mist from this idyllic scene. It was everywhere Bprintr spring in the world spring in their hearts. "She loves me!" he murmered to him self. "lie adores me?" she thought. j And they were justified in that giving themselves up, without strife or resistance, to the attraction which drew them natur ally together. From the first word they exchanged there had been a close and complete identity ot tastes, ideas and sentiments between them. 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alido through the world together, performing all the functions of fashionable life, all the rites and ceremonies of social worship, with the regularity of a machine or an automaton, at the flitting moment, in the assigned dress, wherever it was the correct thing to amuse oneself. They reached the drawing room car. The curtains were drawn over the lamps, and the travelers sank back, drowsy or as'cep, in their big red arm chairs. "Let us change places," aid Roul to Maurice in a whisper. "You come by her, and I will go and sit next to her mother, for I must speak to her." Maurice took his part in the maneuver in the moet accomodating manner. Martha didn't undorptand iL Why was be l?aving her? Why was he talking to her mr.ther, and in uch low tones that she could not hear him? What on earth was he aay inn? This ia what be contrived to say between 'Monteiiruar, 8:35, and I'iernelalte, S:55. "I beg you to listen to rre roadame! I am an honorable man, and I want it is my duty to tell you exactly how mattvrs stand. Let us begin with a very important point. My father knows M. Derame." "Yea. I know he does." "Another still more important point. My father is very rich." "Yes, I know he is." ""That is -capital, then, capital ! Now I can go on. I left Paris this morning, and in my pocket I have a ticket for cabin No. 27 in the Irrwau iy, wnich naila at 4 tomorrow for Suez. Aden, Colombo and Singapore. I shall go on board tomorrow at 4 o'clock, unless you allow me to hope that I may become your son-in-law." "Monsieur!" "Don't move, mndame, don't move, Mdlle-Marthe pretends to be asleep, but she is not. he u watching us, and I iiave not finished yet. I Lave hardly begun. You will tell me I am sure of it! you don't know me that Mdlle.Martbe doesn't know me. Allow me to inform you that mademoiselle and 1 know each other better than three-fourths of the bethrothed couples on the morninc of their marriage. You know how these things genera ly como about A hasty g ance at the theater, a long way off good glasses have been put into requisition and they inspect one another. 'What do vou think of him?' Oh, not eo bad.' Then eome days later, at a ball, between two sets of quadri.les, a few breathless, gasping phrases. Next a meeting in a museum. There they get on more familiar terms, between the four walls of a gallery. That is what happened to me with a young lady from the provinces. I fagged at it in the morning with the Guide Joanne, bo as to prepare something to say in front of the

Paphols and Murulos. After a few inter views of this sort, everything lias been done. They know each other, they come to terras, end the marriage is agreed upon. Put as for Mile. Marthe and me, we are old comrades already. To begin with, at 11 :ö0 this morning ehe fell into my arms. "My daughter in your arms!" "Do not Btart, madame. Mdlle. Marthe will see that you are started." And in fact Marthe was closely follow ing this scene with her eyes between her half shut eyelids; and she eaid to herself : "What is be telling mamma? She has to bold on to the arms of her chair to pre vent herself from jumping up." "ee, madame, in my arms! Iv the greatest piece of good luck the most fortunate of chances we ran against each other on one of the gangways. And since then I have eeen her, not iu the deceptive light of a theater or museum, but in tho bright euushine. at lunch, cracking nuts with tho prettiest teeth imaginable, and I have seen her just now in the moonlight; and I know that ehe skates and I know that she swims, and I knowthat she would like a brougham of pearl vrey and havo it she ehall ! And now I am admiriag her m this subdued light. Pavishing ! Is ehe not ravislting?' "Monsieur, a mother was never yet in euch " "In nu.-h a eituation ! I recognize the fact, madame, and that is just w hy we niut get out of the situation as quickly as possible. &a it is clear it can not be prolonged." That ia very true." "Here is what I propose. You will stay at the Hotel de Noail.es; so tdmd 1, cf course. Ycu will have all tomorrow morning for a talk with Ml'e. Marthe, and the telephone for a talk with M. Derame. You know who I am, you have seen me. too, iu the daylight. I have spoken I have spoken a great deal you and Mile. Derame have been able to form a good idea of what I was, and what I thought. Now, at what o'clock do you breakfast tomorrow ?" "But I cannot tell I assure you, monsieur, that I am etifled upset prostrated !" "Mill, let us name ah hour. Eleven. Will eleven suit you?" "If vou wish it." "Very well. then. At 11 o'clock I shall be in the dining room of the hotel. If you tell me to go. I will go if you bid me remain I shall remain. Give me no answer now; take time for consideration it is just as well to do that. I shall hope to see you tomorrow, madame, tomorrow at 11." In the morning there were some very interesting communications by telephone between Paris and Marseilles. When Mme. Derame entered the dining room of the hotel at 11 o'clock. Itaool came up te her at once. The chasseur, ever precise in his n aneuvers, had taken Mile. Martha under his charge. There was a brief interchange of conversation between Paoul and the madame, who waa much moved. "I am told, monsieur, that there are steamers every fortnight between IndoChina and Marseilles. You might perbpB put off your departure say until the next steamer." "Oh ! thanks, madame. Thank you !" At - o'clock the Deramea and Paoul accompanied Maurice to the steamer. On the bridge Paoul said to his friend: "Now you quite understand, you are to be my best man! As soon as you have reported yourself ask .your co onel for leave of absence. I think it wi.l be in about six weeks." Paoul waa mistaken. It was certainly a marriage by express five weeks sufficed. As they were ascending the steps of the Madeleine Paoul eaid to Marthe: "Noon !" "What are you thinking of?" "Nay what are you thinking of?" "Noon? that was about the time in the gangway, was it not?" "You have guested it." They broke into a laugh, but soon looked serious again, and entered the church in an irreproachable manner. They werescaoned with much curiosity, and in different parts of the church the spectators were making their comments. "It is a love match, you know !" "Yes; it seems they met in a railway train." "Quick as a flash of lightning." "Quite a charming affair." "And bo uncommon, too!" "Yes eo uncommon! A love match a regular love match!" The Serpent's Tooth. Punch. "Didn't I Bend 'im to Htton and H oxford? Didn't I tend 'im into the harray, along o' aome o the biggest nobs in all licni(land, with an allowance fit for a vputig hearl ? And what's the bupshot of it all? Why. be gives dinners to dooks and royal 'ighnesses, and don't even harsk 'is poor old father to meet 'em. 'Ighnesset, indeed! I could buy up the 'ale blessed lot. And, what's more. I wouldn't rnind tellin' 'otn eo to their faces for two pins ah I just aa soon as look at 'era and knowi it."

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