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UNDER TWO FLAGS By -°. u '- D ?- CHAPTER IX. IGARETTE whs as caustic as a Voltaire tills morning. Com* ii'-g through the entrance of 2i ttssJ the hospital, she bad casually beard that Mme. la I'rlncesse Corona d'Am ague had made a gift of singular munificence aud mercy to the invalid soldiers—a gift of wine, of fruit, of flowers, that would brighten their long, dreary hours for many weeks. Who Mme. la Princesse might be she knew uot; but the title was enough: she ■was a silver pheasant—bah! And with a word here and a touch there, tender, , soft and bright, since, however ironic her mood, she never brought anything except sunshine to those who lay in such sore need of it. beholding the sun in the heavens only through the nar row chink of a hospital window. At last she reached the bed she came most specially to visit—a bod on which was stretched the emaciated form of a man once beautiful us a Greek dream of a trod. The dews of a threat agony stood on his forehead; his teeth were tight clinched on lips white and parched. She bent over h!m softly. “Good day, M. Leon. I have brought you some ice.” His weary eyes turned on her grate fully. He sought to speak, but the ef fort brought the spasm on his lungs afresh. It shook him with horrible violence from head to foot, and the foam on his auburn beard was red with blood. There was no one by to watch him. He was sure to die; a week sooner or later—what mattered It? He was use less as a soldier—good only to be thrown into a pit, with some quicklime to hasten destruction and do the work of the slower earthworms. Cigarette said uot a word, but she took out of some vine leaves a cold, hard lump of ice aud held It to him. The delicious coolness and freshness In that parching noontide heat stilled the convulsion. His eyes thanked her. though his lips could not He lay panting, exhausted, hut relieved, and she. thoughtfully for her. slid herself down on the floor and began singing low and sweetly as a fairy might sing on the raft of a water lily leaf. “Ah, that Is sweet,” murmured the dying man. “It is like the brooks like the birds—like the winds in the leaves." He was but half conscious, but the lulllug of that gliding voice brought him peace. And Cigarette sang on, only moving to reach him some fresh touch of ice, while time traveled on And the first afternoon shadows crept aeross the bare floor. It was a fete day in Algiers. Tbgye were flags and banners fluttering froiff thp houses; there were Arab races and Arab .ma neuvers; there was a review of troops for some "foreign general; there were all the mirth and the mischief thaf she loved andtLat never went on without her. But still she never moved, though all her vivacious life was longing .to A>e out and in their midst on the back of a desert horse, on the head of a huge *lrum, perched on the Iron sup port of a high hung lantern, standing on a cannon while the horse artillery swept full gallop, firing down a volley the hot homage of a hun loveflr Rut she never moved. She knew that In the general, gala these sickbeds would be left more de serted and less soothed than ever. She knew, too, that it was for the sake of this man, lying flying here from the lunge of a Bedouin lance through his lungs, that the ivory wreaths and crosses and statuettes had been sold. And Cigarette had done more than this ere now many a time for her “chil dren.” The day stole on. Leon Ramon lay very quiet. The Ice for his chest and the song for his ear gave him that semi ; ' |\\ \ (wsST n i ‘ > Sf v# i 1 , -gM-A bL. jr-? V D9. J Began ringing low and sweetly. oblivion, dreamy and comparatively painless, which was the only mercy which could come to him. A stop sounded on the bare boards. She looked up, and the wounded man taised his weary lids with a gleam of ’ladness under them. Cecil bent above iis couch. j “Dear Leon, how is it with you?” His voice was softened to infinite ten derness. Leon Ramon had been for many a year his comrade and his friend, an artist of Paris, a man of marvelous genius, _pf high ideallc i creeds, who in a fatal moment of rash despair had flung his talents, his bro ker) fortunes, his pure and noble spirit into the fiery furnace of the hell of mil itary Africa and now iay dying here, a common soldier, forgotten as though he were already in his grave. “The review is just over. 1 got ten minutes to spare and came to you the instant i could.” pursued Cecil. “See here what i firing you! You, with your artist's soul, will feel yourself all hut well when you look on these!” He placed on his bed some peaches bedded deep in moss and circled round with stephanotis, with magnolia, with roses, with other rarer flowers still. The face of the artist soldier lightened with a louging joy. His lips quivered. “Ah. God! They have the fragrance of my France!” Cecil said nothing, but moved them nearer into the clasp of his eager hands. Cigarette be did not see. “They are beautiful!” the dying man said faintly at length. “They have our youth iu them. How came you by them, dear friend?” “They are not due to me,” answered Cecil hurriedly. “Princess Corona sends them to you. She has sent great gifts to the hospital—wines, fruits, a profu sion of flowers such as those. Through her these miserable chambers will bloom for awhile like a garden, and the best wines of Europe will slake your thirst.” “It is very kind,” murmured Leon Ramon languidly. “But 1 am ungrate ful. Cigarette here—she has been so good, so tender, so pitiful. For once I have almost uot missed you.” Cigarette, thus alluded to, sprang to her feet, with her head tossed back and all her cynicism back again. A hot col or was on her cheeks, the light had passed from her face, she struck her white teeth together. She had thought Bel-a-faire-peur chained to bis regiment In the field of maneuver, or she would never have come thither to tend his friend. She had felt happy In her self sacrifice, she had grown Into a gentle, pensive, merciful mood, siugiDg here by the side of the dying soldier, and now the first thing she heard was of the charities of the princess! That was all her reward. Cigarette received tlie recompense that usually corues to generous natures which have strung themselves to some self surren der that costs them dear. Cecil looked at her surprised and smiled. “My pretty one, is It you? That is In deed good. You were the good angel of my life the other night and today come to bring consolation to my friend” — “ ‘Good angel!’ Cbut. M. Victor! There is nothing of the angel about me, 1 hope. Your friend too! Pruttut! Do you think 1 Lave never been used to taking care of my comrades in hos pitals before you played the sick nurse here?” fihe spoke with all her brusque petu lance in arms again. She bated that be should Imagine she had sacrificed her fete day to Leon Ramon because the artist -trooper was dear to him. He smiled again; be did not under stand the caprices of her changeful moods, and he did not feel that Inter est In her which would have made him divine the threads of their va garies. “I did not think to offend you, my little one," he said gently. “1 meant *nly to thank you for your goodness o Ramon in my absence.” Cigarette shrugged her shoulders. “There was no goodness, and there •aed he no thanks. Ask Pere Matou how often I have sat with him hours through.” “But on a fete day! And you'who love pleasure and grace it so well”— “Oufi I have had so much of It,” said the little one contemptuously. “It te so tame to me. Clouds of dust, scurry of horses, fanfare of trumpets, thunder of drums and all tor nothing! Bah! I have been in a dozen battles— I—and I am not likely to care., much Cora sham fight.” “Nay, she is unjust to herself,” mur mured Leon Ramon. “She gave up the fete to do this mercy—lt has been a great one. She is more generous than she will ever allow. Here, Cigarette, look at these scarlet rosebuds; they are like your bright cheeks. Will you have them? I have nothing else to give.” “Rosebuds!” echoed Cigarette, with supreme scorn. “Rosebuds for me? I know no rose but the red of the tri color. and 1 could not tell a weed from a flower. Besides, I told Miou-Matou Just now, if my children do as I tell them, they will not take a leaf or a peaehstoue from this grande dame how does she caii herself? —Mine. Co rona d’Amague!” Cecil looked up quickly. “Why not?” Cigarette flashed on him her brilliant brown eyes with a fire that amazed him. “Because we are soldiers, not pau pers. And it is not for the silver pheasants, who have done nothing to deserve their life but lain in nests of cotton wool, and eaten grain that others sow and shell for them, and spread their shining plumage in a sun that uever clouds above their heads, to insult, with the insolence of their pity’ and their ‘charity,’ the heroes of France who perißh fts they have lived, for their country and their flag!” Cecil laughed slightly, but he an- swered with a certain annoyance: “There is no 'insolence’ here; no ques tion of it. The princess desired to of fer some gift to the soldiers of Algiers. I suggested to her that to increase the [ scant comforts of the hospital aud gladden the weary eyes of sick men with beauties that the executive never dreams of bestowing would be the most merciful and acceptable mode of exercising her kindness. If blame there he In the matter. It is mine.” In defending the generosity of what he knew to 1m? a genuine and sincere wish to gratify his comrades lie be trayed wlmt be did not intend to have revealed—namely, tlie conversation that had passed between himself and the Spanish princess. Cigarette caught at the inference with the quickness of her lightninglike thought. “Oh-lie! So it is she!” There wns a whole world of empha sis, scorn, meaning, wrath, comprehen sion and irony In the four monosylla bles. The dying man looked at her with languid wonder. “She? Who? What story goes with these roses?” “None,” said Ceeil, with the same in flection of annoyance in his voice. “None whatever. A generous thought fulness for our common necessities as soldiers”— “Ouf!” interrupted Cigarette before his phrase was one-third finished. “The stalled mare will not go with the wild coursers. An aristocrat may live with us, but he will always cling to his old order. This is the story that runs with the roses. Miladi was languidly Inso lent over some ivory chessmen, aud Corporal Victor thought it divine be cause languor and insolence are the twin gods of the noble&se. Miladi, knowing no gods but those two, wor ships them and sends to the soldiers of France, as the sort of sacrifice her gods love, fruits and wines that day after day are set on her table to be touched, if tasted at all, with a butterfly’s sip, and Corporal Victor finds this a char ity sublime—to give what costs noth ing and scatter a few crumbs out from the profusion of a life of waste and in dulgence! Aud I say that if my chil dren are of my fashion of thinking they will choke like dogs dying of thirst rather than slake their throats with aims cast to them as it*they .were beggars!” With which Cigarette lit her pipe and hurried away. Her wrath was hot and her heart her. She had given up her whole fete day to wait on the anguish and to soothe the solitude of his friend lying dying there, and her reward had been to hear him speak of this aristocrat’s donations, that ct>st her nothing but the trouble of a few words of command to her household, as though they were the saintly charities of some angel from heaven. In that moment she could have shot him dead herself without a second's thought. “You have vexed her, Victor,” said Leon Ramon as she was lost to sight through the doors of the great desolate chamber. “I hope not. Ido not know how,” an swered Cecil. “It is impossible to fol low the windings of her wayward ca prices—a child, a soldier, a dancer, a brigand, a spoiled beauty, a mischiev ous gamin. How is one to treat snch a little fagot of opposites?” The other smiled. “Ah, you do not know the little one yet She Is worth a study. I painted her years ago. There was not a pic ture in the Salon that winter that was sought like it. Her future? Weil, she will die, I dare say, some bright day or another at the head of a regiment, with some desperate battle turned by the valor of her charge and the sight of the torn tricolor upheld (n her little hands. That is what Cigarette hopes for. Why not? There will always be a million of commonplace women ready to keep up the decorous traditions of their sex and sit in safety over their needles by the side of thetr hearths. One little lioness here and there in a generation cannot do overmuch harm.” Cecil was silent. Cigarette was charming now—a fairy story set into living motion, a fantastic Uttle fire work out of an extravaganza, with the Impudence of & "boy harlequin and the witching kittenhood o? a girl's beauty. But when this youth that made it all fair should have 'passed, when there should be left in its stead only shame lessness, hard Brood, vice, weariness, those who found the prettiest jest in her now would be the first to cast aside with an oath the charred, wrecked rocket stick of a life from which no.golden, careless stream of many colored fires of coquette capfices would rise and enchant them then. “Who is it that.sent these?” asked Leon Ramon later on as his hands still wandered among the flowers. For the moment he was at peace; the- ice and the hours of quietude had calmed him. Cecil told him again. “W'hat does Cigarette know of her?” he pursued. “Nothing, except, T believe, she knew that Mine. Corona accepted my chess carvings.” “Ah, I thought the little one w’us Jeal ous, Victor.” “Jealous? Pshaw! Of whom?” “Of any one you admire, especially of this grande dame.” “Absurd," said Cecil, with a sense of annoyance. “Cigarette is far too bold a little trooper to have any thoughts of those follies, and as for this grande dame, as you call her. I shall ia every likelihood never see her again unless when the word is given to ‘carry swo. or ‘lances’ at the general’s sa lute, where she reins her horse beside M. le Marechal’s at a review, as I have done this morning.” The keen ear of the sick man caught the inflection of an impatience, of a mortification, in the tone that the speaker himself was unconscious of. "Cigarette is right,” said Ramon, with a slight smile. “Your heart is with your old order. Well, keep your hls fTO BE COXTIXtTED.I ! HEAVY FAILURE. A $10,000,000 Syndicate Coes in Receiver’s Hands. Fort Worth, Texas, July 23. — The Capital Free Land and Invest ment company, better known as the “Capital Syndicate company,” whose property is valued at from $8,000,000 and $10,000,000, has passed into the hands of receivers. The petition was filed in behalf of Margaret Ann Babcock and Mau rice B. Brown, of Chicago, repre senting minority stockholders. Judge Wallace today appointed J. V. Goode of this city, late gen eral superintendent of the Fort Worth and Denver City R lilroad company, and president of the Na tional Lumber company, and W. H. Fuqua, president of the First National bank of Amarillo, receiv er. The petition alleged among other things that Messrs. J. V. Farwell, C. R. Farwell and Abner Taylor, of Chicago, own a controll ing interest in the company and that they illegally leased to them selves the land aud cattle of the corporation and tnat they turned the ranches and cattle over to themselves under what is alleged to be permanent leases. The fur ther allegation is made that they are selling the best portion of the ranch to the detriment of the ranch property as a whole, In addition to three million acres of patented land,the company owns about 140,000 head of Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus, short horns and other cattle. Broom Corn Pays Well. A Muscogee county mail has found a profitable crop in brootn corn. H, C Hardy has started anew industry near Richland in the rais ing of broom corn. He is now cutting his crop on what is the largest field of broom corn in the Columbus section. It is said that broom corn will pay better than cottcn if carefully and properly cultivated on a suitable land. Mr. Hardy has all his crop sold to a factory in the south. Nearly all the broom factories in the south at present get their broom corn in the west. Speaking of this crop, Mr. Hardy says: “The raising of broom corn is a new industry in the south. The average product per acre is 500 pounds of brush. 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