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UNDER TWO FLAGS By ** OUIDA ” lory ns you have always done, if you will. What my friend was matters nothing. I know well what he is and how true a friend. As for mlladi. she will be best out of your path. Victor. Women! God, they are so fatal! Do you know what brought me here? No? As little as 1 know what brought you. though we have been close comrades all those years. Well, It was she! 1 was an artist. 1 had no money, 1 had few friends, but I had youth. I had ambition. 1 had. 1 think, genius till site killed it. 1 loved my art with a great love, and I was happy. Happy—until she looked at me.” he pursued, while his voice grew in feverish haste over the words. "Why would she not let me le? She had them all in her gold yn nets—nobles and prim-os and poets and soldiers: she swept them in far and wide. She had her empire. Why must she seek out a man who had but his art and his youth and steal these? It was the first year I touched triumph that I saw her. They began for the first time to speak of me. It wad tiie little painting of Cigarette as a child of the army that did it. Ah, God. I thought myself already so fa mous! Well, she sent for me to take her picture, and I went. I went, and I painted Dor as Cleoputra—l>y her wish. Ah, it was a face for Cleopatra, the eyes that burn your youth dead, the lips that kiss your honor blind! Through month on month my picture grew, and my passion grew with it, fanned by her hand. She knew that never would a man paint her beauty like one who gave his soul for the price of success. Then came my re ward. When the picture was done, her fancy had changed. A light scorn, a careless laugh, a touch of her fan on iny check. Could I not understand? Was I still such a child? Must I be broken more harshly in to learn to give place? That was aU, and at last her lackey pushed me back with his wand from her gates! She had killed rue. She had struck my genius dead. What of that? She had her beauty eternal in the picture she needed, and the whole city rang with her lovelinees as they looked on my work. I have never painted again. I came here. What of that? An artist the lees, then, the^ world dl<| not care. A life the less soon, she’will noTcarJTeitner!” Then as the words ended a great wave of blood beat back his breath and burst from the pent up torture of his striving lungs and stained red the dark and silken masses of his beard. His comrade held him upward in his arms and shouted loud for help. The great luminous eyes of the French soldier looked up at him through their mist with tlie deep, fond gratitude that beams In the eyes of a dog as it drops down to die, knowing one touch and one voice to thejast. YioT forsake,” he murmured brokenly, while his voice ebbed faint ly away as the stream of his life flowed ! faster aud faster out. “It is over now —so best! !f enly J could have seen France once more—France”— Then a deep sigh quivered through his lips, his hand strove to close ou the hand of his comrade, and his head fell, resting on the flushed blossoms of the rose buds of Provence. , <rt , i He was dead. v * * * * *• • • • Au hour later Cecil left the hospital, seeing and hearing nothing of the gay riot of the town about him, though the folds of many colored silk and bunting fluttered across the narrow Moorish streets, and the whole of the populace was swarming through them with the .vivacious enjoyment of Paris mingling with the stately picturesque life of Arab habit and custom. In I-eon Ra mon be bad found a man whom be had loved and who bad loved him. And now that the one lay dead a heavy, weary sense of loneliness rested on the ether. Passing one of the cafes, a fa vorite resort of the officers of his own regiment, he saw Cigarette, ller tunic skirt was full of bonbons and crackers that she was flinging down among the crowd while she sang, stopping every now and then to exchange some pas sage of wit with them that made her hearers scream with laughter, while 'behind her was a. throng of young of ficers drinking champagne, eating ices and smoking, echoing her songs and her satires with enthusiastic voices and stamps of their spurred As he glanced upward she Ipoked liter ally in a blaze of ‘luminance, arid the wild, mellow tones of her voice ringing out sounded like a mockery of that dy ing bed beside which they had both so late stood together. c -v^ “She has the playfulness of the young leopard, and the cruelty,” he thought, with a sense of disgust, for getting that she did not know what he knew and that if cigarette had waited to laugh until and ?ath had passed by she would have never laughed all her life through in the battalions of Africa. She saw him as he went beneath JKT balcony, and she sang all the louder, she flung her sweetmeat mis siles with the reckless force of a Roman carnivalist, she launched bolts of tenfold more audacious raillery at the delighted mob below. Cigarette was a good soldier when she was wounded', she wound her scarf round the nerve that ached and only laughed the gayer. , , 4 Aud he did her that Injustice which the best among os are apt to do {a f those whom \Vo do not feel interest | enough in to study with that closeness i which can alone give comprehension of the intricate and complex rebus, so i faintly sketched, so marvelously in volved, of human nature. S He thought her a little leopard In her vivacious play and her inborn i bloodthirstiness. Well, the little leop ! aid of France played recklessly i enough that evening. Algiers was en fete, and Cigarette was sparkling over the whole of the town like a humming bird or a firefly— here, there and every where. She played through more than half the night the agile, bounding, graceful play of the young leopard to which he had likened her and with a quick punishment from her velvet sheathed talons if any durst offend her. Then when the dawn was nigh, ieopardllke, the little one sought her den. "The chateau of Cigarette” was a ; standing jest of the army, for none ! was ever allowed to follow her thither I or to behold the interior of her fortress, and one overventur-ous spahis, scaling | the ramparts, bad been rewarded with , so hot a deluge of lentil soup from a | boiling casserole poured on his head I from above that he had beaten a hasty and ignominious retreat. “The chateau of Cigarette” was neither more nor less than a couple of garrets high in the air in an old Moorish house in an old Moorish court, decayed, silent, poverty struck. Up a long and winding rick ety stair Cigarette approached her cas tle and opened her door. There was a dim oil wick burning. The garret was large and as clean as a palace could be. Its occupants were various and all sound asleep except one, who, rough and hard and small and three legged, limped up to her and rubbed a little bullet bead against her lovingly. “Bouffarick, little Bouffarick,” re turned Cigarette caressingly in a whis per, and Bouffarick, content, limped back to a nest of hay, being a little wiry dog that had lost a log in one of the famous battles of Oran and lain in Its dead master’s breast through three days and nights on the field. Cigarette, shading the lamp with one hand, glanc ed round on her family. They had all histories— hlstoriesTn the French army, y hlch was the only history she consid ered or Wy" Import to the universe. There was a raven perched high, by name Yole-qul-Veut. He was a noted character among the zouaves and had made many a campaign riding on his owner's bayonet. He loved a combat and was specially famed for screaming ‘‘Tue, tue, tue!” all over a battlefield. - . Cigarette glanced round on her family. He was very gray now, and the touave’s bones had long bleached on the edge of the desert. There was a big white cat curled in a ball that had been the darling of a Triuglo and had traveled all over north Africa on the top of his mule's back seven seasons thfough. In the eighth the Triuglo was picked off by a flying shot. There were little Bouffarick and three other brother dogs of equal celebrity, one in especial-, that had been brought from Chalons, In defiance of the regular tions. Inside the drum of his regiment and had been wounded a dozen times, ulways seeking the hottest heat of the skirmish. And there was, besides these, 1 sleeping serene|£jOft # .strawjmlljgsse, ) a "very old man with a snowy beard and a head fit for Gerome to give to an Abraham. Avery old man—one who had been a conscript in the hand# of young France atjd marched frepi Jiis Pyre nean village to the battle tramp of the aud charged with the children of Paris across the plains' of Gemappos, who had known the pas sage of the Alps and lifted the long | curls from the dead brow of Desaix | at Marengo and seen in the sultry noon day dust of a glorious summer the 1 guard march into Paris, while the peo ple lagghed and. wept with joy, surg -1 ing like the mighty sea around one ! pale, frail form, so young by years, 60 absolute by genius. Avery old man, long broken with ; poverty, with pain, with bereavement, With extreme old age, alone save for the little Friend of the Flag, who for four years had kept him on the pro | cceds of her wine trade in this Moorish 1 attic, tending him herself when in ■ (own, taking heed that he should want I for nothing when she was campaign ! Ing. In her Sight the survivor of the army of Italy was sacred: sacred the I eyes which, when full of light, had seen the sun glitter on the breastplates of the hussars of Murat, the dragoons of Ivellermau, the cuirassiers of Mil haud; sacred the hand which, when | nervous with youth, had borne the j standard of the republic victorious | against the patlvored Teuton in the | Thermopylae of Champagne; sacred the ears which, when quick to hear, had heard the thunder of Areola, of Lodi, j of Rlwil and, übove even the tempest I of war. the clear voice of Napoleon. Cigarette had a religion of her own I and followed it more closely than most \ disci tiles follow other creeds. CHAPTER X. E" ’ IaRLY that morning when the snowy 'cloud of pigeons was S' circling down to take its daily ; alms from Cigarette where her bright brown face looked out from the lattice hole Cecil, with so die of the rough riders of his regiment, was sent far into the interior to bring In a string of colts, bought of a friendly desert tribe and destined to be shipped to France, for the Imperial Haras. The mission took two days. Early ou the third day they returned with the string of wild young horses, that It had taken not a little exertion aud address to conduct successfully through the country into Algiers. Chn teaiyoy was himself present when the colts were taken into the stable yard, and himself Inquired, without the me dium of any third person, the whole details of the sale and of the transit. It was Impossible, with all his Inclina tion, to find any fault cither with the execution of the errand or with the brief, respectful answers by which the corporal replied to his rapid and im perious cross questionings; hence th 6 inspection passed off peaceably. As the marquis turned on his heel, how ever, he paused a moment. “Victor!” “My commander?” “I have not forgotten your insolence with those Ivory toys, but the prin cess herself has deigned to solicit that it shall be passed over unpunished. She cannot, of course, yield to your im pertinent request to remain also un paid for them. I charged myself with the fulfillment of her wishes. You de serve the lasb, but since miladi herself Is lenient enough to pardon you you are to take this instead. Hold your hand, sir!” Cecil put I|Mut his hand. He expected to receive a heavy blow from his com mander's saber that possibly might break the wrist. These little trifles were common in Africa. Instead a handful of napoleons was laid ou his open palm. Chateauroy knew the gold would sting more than the blow. For the moment Cecil had but one Im pulse—to dash the pieces In the giver’s face. In time to restrain the impulse he caught sight of the wild, eager ha tred gleaming in the eyes of Rake, of Petit Picpon, or a score of others who loved him and cursed their colonel and would at one signal from him have sheathed their swords in the mighty frame of the marquis, though they should have been shot down the next moment themselves for the murder. The warning of Cigarette came to his memory. His hand clasped the gold. He gave the salute calmly as Chateau roy swung himself away, and, his hour of liberty being come, be went slowly out of the great court, with the hand ful of napoleons thrust in the folds of his sash. Rather unconsciously than by pre meditation his steps turned through the streets that led to his old familiar haunt, the As du Pique, and, dropping down on a bench under the awning, he asked for a draft of water. It was brought him at once, the hostess, a quick, brown, little woman from Paris, whom the lovers of Eugene Sue called Rigolette, adding of her own accord a lump of ice and a slice or two of lemon, for which she vivaciously refused pay ment, though generosity was by no means her cardinal virtue. He did not look at the newspapers she offered him, but sat gazing out from the tawny awning, like the sail of a Neapolitan felucca, down the checkered shadows and the many colored masses of the little, crooked, rambling, semibarbaric alley. He was thinking of the napo leons in his sash and of the promise he had pledged to Cigarette. That he would keep it he was resolved. Yet a weariness, a bitterness, he had never known in the excitement of active service came on him. brought by this sting of insult from the fair hand of an aristocrat. There was absolutely no hope pos sible in his future. The uttermost that could ever come to him would be a grade something higher In the army that now enrolled him—tie gift of the cross or a post In the bureau. Al gerine warfare was not like the cam paign of the armies of Italy or the Rhine, and there was no Napoleon her 9 to toggery with unerring omnis cience a leader’s genius under the uni form of a common trooper. The heavy folds of a Bedouin’s baik, brushing the papers off the bench, broke the thread of his musings. As he stooped for them, he saw that one was an English journal some weeks old. His own name caught his eye—the name buried so utterly, whose utterance in the thelk’s tent had struck him like a dag ger’s thrust: THE ROYALLIEU SUCCESSION. k We regret to learn that the Right Hon. Viscount Royallieu, who so lately succeeded to the family title as his fathers death, has expired at.Men tone, whither his health had induced him to go some months previous. The late lord was unmar ried. His next brother was, it will be remem bered, many years ago killed on a southern rail-' way. The title, therefore, now falls to the third and only remaining son, the Hon. Berkeley Cecil, who, having lately inherited considerable prop erties from a distant relative, will, we believe, revive all the old glories of this peerage, which have, from a variety of causes, lost somewiiat of tbeir anriant brilliance. 1. ITO XX CONTINUES. 1 LYNCH Li PREVAILED. Mother. Daughter and Son, Colored, Strung Up- MURDERED MISSISSIPPI COUPLE The Mob Would Not Listen to Law and Order Appeals by Citizens. Carrollton, Miss., the Scene. Carrollton, Miss , Aug. i. —The murder of Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro culminated this evening at 5 o’clock in the lynching of Betsie McCray, her son, Belfield McCray, and daughter, Ida McCray, ail coljred. The mob was composed of 500 white citizens of Carroll county, who marched to the jail in order, demanded the keys from Jailer Duke, proceeded to the cells of the unfortunate negroes, bound them by the neck and hands and carried them to the corporate limits of town, where they hung them to a tree by the public roadside and riddled their bodies with bullets. The mob resisted the earnest ap peals of Judge W. F. Stephens and Hon. W. S. Hill, who stood on the steps of the jail and appealed to the mob in the name of law and order. They even followed the mob to the cell doors with their arms around the necks of the lead ers, pleading to let the law take its course, but with no effect. Ida McCray confessed to the knowledge of the murder and sta ted that her mother, Betsie, aud brother, Belfield, helped commit the murder. She furthei implica ted others who will probably meet a like fate. Betsie McCray refused to make any statement. Gov. A. H. Longino arrived on the scene by special train from Jackson just a few minutes after the hanging. He addressed a large and attentive audience*at the court house, impressing upon them the duty of their citizenship and obedience to law and order. The best citizens of the county, among whom were W. F. Stephens, Hon. W. S. Hill, district attorney; Senator A. H. George, L. M. Southworth and others, labored un tiringly with the excited mob all during the day to allow the law to take its course, but without avail. FOOD CHANGED TO POISON. 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