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N««€««««««««««£««««««««««««<««««««^*****'S .^' / SLOVE '$ OR, A BROTHER'S PROHISE CITAPTKR XVITI. wo shall love Tnlnnllo. I,et us then, drink 'VnluieUc. â€" L'alnit'tto the Free' !" Glasses wore raised, and in silence the toast was drunk. "It is a generous act, your Majes- ty," said the Orange King, "to ac- cord us a private audience of fare- The long day was over and the night was come. Ceremonies and parades, presenting of arms and booming of cannon, pealing of bolls and Bounding of music, stately ban- quet and foimal investitvire were all passed with the sun. Of the loud day naught remained but the surging I well. But we must not presume on vivas of the people, who still filed ' it : we .see how fatigued you are. past the gates oi tl'c pnlnce, and { To-morrow, and for many days to made night day with wizai'dry of i come, there will be heavier demands torches and colored lanters. Again on your strength. You must rest â€" and again they renewed the cry of | you really must." "Maddalcna ! Maddalena !" and] ".Ah ! you are always kind and again and again, at the summons, ! thoughtful, Mr. Smith; but I must the Queen appeared on a. balcony over the gates; and, with that line sense of the dramatic ineradicable from her sunny blood, cast to them red roses in handful.s â€" at once thanks thanks.' si)eiik lor a moment. 1 have been trying to lind words to thank you for all " â-  Pray, prny, madame, s|)aro me from her heart for all they had borne and done, and promise that she was theirs while to her was life. She was weary to the point of ex- haustion : the long cin-onation cere- mony was enough to break down the endurance of the strongest : but she was dowered with an unconquerable will that would not allow her to yield to mere physical weariness. "O ! but I can give you nothing but thanks. 1 had thought of some honor, but 1 have none high enough for your merit. And you are best just yourself. What yo\i have done foi' Palmetto cannot be paid with an order, or thanks, or money. 13\it, believe me" â€" impul- sively holding out both handsâ€" "1 shall never forget you; Palmetto shall nevei- forget you â€" for when you She turned the repeated remonstran- allow me to tell my people the name of the man who gave them the means o( seizing freedom, I shall never cease saying to them, 'Henicmber the name of Thomas Smith !' " The Orange King smiled. "It is not a very heroic name, madame." "It is the name of an honest gen- tleman " At v/hicli ho could do nothing but bow. "And 1 shall remember it with af- fection as long as I live. You said once that kings had short memories, and I answered you that queens were dilTerent." "Surel.y I could not have said so rude a thing." "Ah ! yes, you did â€" Don Augustiji â€" ^you know." Bravo handed lier a leather port- folio embossed in silver, opening it with a silver key ere be gave it to her. "Here, .sir, is a proof that I do not forget. This is the charter " "O ! nu\dame " "The charter that was promised, giving >()U tlio monoiJoly " But tlio Orange King put his hands over his ears. "Vray, pray, madame â€" not another word. I cannot take it, I cannot take it." "But, sir " "l came into this business for the mere gamble of tlie li-in , I fore- saw a prol)al)ility of Hispaniolu be- ing ousted, 1 resolved to make the probability a possibility. 1 put my money into the Palmetto rising as I would have put it into a coal-mine or a slate quarry. 'J'hen when I came hero and saw the meaning that a successful result had for Palmetto, for its people, for â€" may 1 -say ? â€" ^you, my desire to make mone.v out of you left me â€" and it has not come back." "UuL this is a debt of honor." "If your Majesty wishes to hurt me, insist that 1 take that charter. If you wish to do me the highest honor, and to give me the greatest plea.sure you can, you will bin-n it â€" now." When the Orange King spoke, it was always as the result of delibera- tion â€" brief deliberation, it may bo â€" but the matter was settled once and for all; the very tones of ''is voice were final. Maddalena knew this, and knew, too that nothing pleased him like prompt accession to his wishes. She drew the charter from its case, and moved towards the crackling wood fire. "I do wish to do you the highest honor; I do wish to give you the greatest plea.sure. See !" And the parchment wos dropped in- to the flames. For a moment or two siic stood in silence, watching the (licl'er. and then she came back. 'J'hcre were tears in her eyes. "f am blessed in my friends,'' she said in a broken voice. The Orange King ki.ssed her hand. "<iood-night." "Oood-byo, madame." "No, no. I do not .say good-bye. I shall see ,vou soon again, 1 know, tlood-night ! God-speed ! ' Don August in left the room with Mr. Smith, who whispered "Half an hour" as he passed Hector. The door closed, shutting o<it the world, shutting then) in â€" closed gen- tly, making them the only two in the world, and the world thi.s room. The sound, soft us it was, fell on their hearts like a clashing of gates, cutting them ofl for ever. Hector looked on Maddalena â€" ^Mad- dalena looked on Hector. Neither found words : only from the eyes of I'.-ich went one swift look of love and pain, and their eyes fell. Mad- dalena nioM-d to ft chair facing the fire, and sank into it. her back to Hectorâ€" .sank into it with a weak- ness more touching than teur.s â€" and thus she sat for many minutes, nio- tionloss. He, too. was numbed. For one >Q«)nent he had thu impulse to go cos of the assiduous Bravo with an answer that compelled silence and admiration. "I shall not be outdone iiy my people, sir. Am 1 to be the only one to bear notbint; ?" forgetting that she had given all; that she was resolved to give all. ' in the balcony she did not stand alone; for, always, alter the sum- monses to her. came cull on call for "Senor (!rant !" Willingly, not only lor his own sake, but a thousan<l Times lor hers, he woi.';' • :i\f (evad- ed the ordeal, but Maddalena wisel.y aiTectcd to regard his reluctance as diffidence; and Ib-avo, hopeful that the incense of homage might help to deaden feeling against the hour of parting, insisted that Maddalona's wish shouhl be obeyed. So Hector took his share of honor with the Queen, standing at her right hand, where she had placed him. From the flash and change of the crowd. pu.ssing before him like tho painted nothings of a dream, his eyes lifted ever and anon to rest Upon the only realities â€" Maddalena at his side, and the ship of fire lay out in the bayâ€" the Ibadan. It was not so much of the moment of part- ing that he thought, as of the mor- row on the sea â€" the morrow when Maddalena would be far from him â€" and the next day, and tho next, and tho next. Nor was it on his own sorrow that he dwelt : it was on Maddalena's. He could bury him- self from tho world; could hide him- self among the heutlier of the North; could dream of the days that were, and steep himself in a very luxury of woe, and .so stumble aiin]i?ssly down to the dark stream of sleep that drowns all earthly core and grief. But she, with her burden heavy on her heart, must live on in public: moving with smiles among her peo- ple, compelling herself to tiance when the.v piped and' weep when they wept, to taste all their little joys nnd share all their sorrows, to give B,vnipathy to those who most needed It â€" to be. in a word, u slave and a queen. Round in such a dear circle his thoughts ran, halting for a mo- ment when some more than ordinar- ily hearty outburst of rejoicing call- ed for acknowledgment, only to re- turn with renewed sadness to the desperate round. Hut at last llie hour of eleven Bounded from the campanile of San fBcrnardino. One last thunder of fireworks, one last salvo of cheering, and Maddalena withdrew from tho balcony. l^'resh guards were jjosted, and the Palace gates closed with a dang. Lights went out, and the hupp.v people. like children with a Bcw toy, talked them.selves homo with enthusiastic little stories of how their CJueen hod lot>ked, and what (heir Queen had worn, and what their Queen had .said. At the back of the Palace, looking on to a garden of oraiig(-bt*dered paths and rose-bright stretches, was a room that had been hastily pre- pni-ed after the model of the bou- doir in Blooni.sbury. It was here, when good-nights were said to gen- eris, counsellors, island nobles, blushing with I heir new honors, that Maddalena, Hector, Hruvo and the Orange King met. To guard against all possibility of interrup- tion Alasdair was stationed nt the door. Tho quiet of this secluded room was welcome after the turmoil of the doy, and none wisheil to break the Milcnce. But time was flying, and little OS he wi.shed to shoi ten their last hour. Bravo was cunipelled to speak, for it was clear that Madda- lena's strength could not hold out much longer. "Her Majesty wishes us," ho said, "to join her in drinking 'I'almctto.' We four saw the beginning of the work; we four have to-day Keen the end of it â€" perhaps 1 should pay, the real 'neglnning. Two of as remain to carry it in. her Majest.y for many quickly and take her in his arijis .voar.sâ€" (!od grant it !â€" 1, for a little! with southing words and tho InStlnc- whilo, shell help her; two of But r,-hetner we go or ntny, us go. j 1 ive surely love encourogements <hot rise to ; lips. Hut the impulse wont down before the sight of her heljv Icssness, and in its place came a certain reverent awe impossible to analyse, for it was at once and al- togetlier love nnd wo;.der and fljin- pathy and fear and surrender and ef- facement, and yet it was none of these by itself. It was an awe that rooted him to the spot where he stood sulTering : as if one looked on one's dearest being put to the rack by clumsy lingers, and was ineffec- tual to move hand or foot. Ihit if his body was stone, his mind was (piicksilver. How it sprang hither and tliithor, recalling ibis look of hers and that, that soft word and this; how she was yon night when she drew back the cur- tain in tho White Hall; what she said when he took from lier hand the crucifix (warm beside the warm rose on his breast); how she bowed her head to take the crown; her bravery as she faced Asunta in the tent â€" ah ! Asunta, that devil ! Asimta â€" where was she ? Since the night when slio fled from Friganota with di Borja, there had been no whi.sper of her. Yet more than once recently hod he felt a repulsive stir of the ner\es, a sort of feeling that she was .somewhere near, such as cerCain men are known to experience when cats come nigli them. Ho had laughed at his own fears, somewhat half-heartedly it is true, culling them fooli.siuiess and (lie vapors of a heated brain; yet had he trusted to the message of tlie senses he had been wiser. He felt now a i)ricking of tlio skin, felt it ever so slightly, for his nerves were numbed witli (ho imminent disaster of |)arliiig, and his tlioughls wont, rnngiiig far afield with Maddalena. Yet â€" had he but hearkened to it. For A.sunta was near. There was but. the window between them â€" a pt'ne of glass and a curtain. For jiays and days she had sought her roveng'', but Fato wrought against her, and each day .seemed to make vengeance more and more of a phantom. IM Borja desired the death of Hector; Asunta that of Maddalena. But di Borja's was the .stronger nature, the stronger will ; he bad recognized once that ho had ascendency, and ho was not willing to forego one whit of advantage. Ho hoped to see Hispaniola recapture supremacy in Palmetto : that, to bis mind, could only be achieved by the death of Hector. "Po not let me .see you until that F.uglisliman is dead," .Stampa had said to iiim; and at Friganeta he had talked with t^^assavellino. and hoard nothing but praise of Hector : Senor Grant had done this, >Senor Grant had done that, Senor Grant had recommcndoS some marvellous thing â€" always Senor (!rant : so. with tlio double aim of maintaining the dominance of His- paniola and enhuring his own ad- vancement, ho .set him.self deliberate- ly to tho removal of Hector. "Mad- dalena is a mere puppet," said he; "smash tho mainspring, the mechan' ism of revolution refa.ses to act. -Vsuiita shall be the hammer." II. was not en.sy, however, to got near enough (o the muins|)ring for the decisive blow to be d<;!ivered. Ui Horja could not. himself keep regular watch, for liis face was well known in Palm City, and so, too, was A.s- unta's. But, littlo by little, they camo to learn Hector's movements, and what (hey did not know they deduced easily. Thus it came (hat on tho coronation day they discov- ered ho would 1)1! at. tho Palace un- lit a la(o hour. Pi Borja knew the Palace and its grounds thoroughly, and ho had in his ijossession â€" he was chief of Stampa's intelligence stalT, remember, and a privileged person â€" a key to the back entrance of the garden. "I give you this key," ho said to \suntu, "and you let yourself in. Take tho path to the right. That will lead you to a railing bej'ond which you cannot go. M'hen he leaves the Palace to-night he must pass this railing. He cannot esca|)e you, ho must not escape you. Y'ou will bo in the dark and cannot bo seen : bo will be in the light. Lot your hand 1)0 steady." And now she was by the railing, waiting. Hector thrust Asunta from his thoughts, ami bent his eyes again on the weary figure of Madilalena. Slowly and without raising her head, .she stretched out a hand as if beck- oning him. He knelt and took it in his, kissing it again and again. Ten- derly she drew him to hei', and rest- ed his head against her kneo as she fondled his haii- with an almost motherly touch. "So this is the end." "Ye.s â€" tho end." "Only a few minutes more."' ".lust a few minutes." "Is this worth it all ?" Shi ed her hand to the narrow circlet that was sign at know I shall love you nl- for 'You wn.y.s. " "O ! I nm selfish. Here I ask your love â€" and it is you that loving â€" ,vou who have nothing fill tho place 1 should fill." "I shall have your love, Mad- dalena !" "To the very gales of hell. Hoc- tor. O ! it is cruel that it is you who have won me my kingdom â€" yo\i, who, by winning it for me, cut your- self oil from me, cut mo off from you. Sometimes I hate Pon Au- gus(in for having found ,vou, 1 hate Palmetto for being the cause of it all. 1 think it might have been better had 1 been kept in ignorance of m,y birth, if my destiny had boon given to some other woman. For 1 am really weak, and 1 know I know 1 shall not bo a true rulerâ€" I downfall to a lovely Russian princess nm just a woman who loves a man a woman who needs love asks noth- ing more." "Dearest, do not blasphemo against yourself. You are a (iueen â€" every inch of youâ€" you could not bo other than yourself. You must go on, and my lovo will be always with you." Tn another Instance four muu bo-' trayoU their country and lost •♦heiri lives tlirough a woman's beauty and! wiles. General PavanolT and three colonels of the Russian Army wero p|Oij j^uiAVti joj loiifa- o(| u| iiaa-iaopuoa thu Itus-sian plan of mobilisatiun to| the Austrian Government. It was owin« to the fascinations of a beautiful woman. General Pavanofl's adopted daughter. that they woro guilty of the treason which was puji- ished with duath. The three colonels betra.yod their counti'y less for money thaji for tho hope of finding favor in the eyes of' this enchantress who had ao iafatu- ated them. There is a prisoner in the gloomy; forh'css of Prezomjs/l who owe.s his He is the Baron Pottier des Bschel- les. once an oflicer of the Austrian' Army and aide-d(*-camp to the limpei^ or Francis 'Jos<iph, now imprisoned as a traitor, and his treacliery uwesi its uiscovery to the merest trifle. (Jno evening, after a reception in' Vienna, the Princess Arenberg, sister. Hector, until this moment 1 have of Count Kolomon Ilunyadi, found on a .sof.a a slip of paper with writ- ing upon it. It contained two col- umns of memoranda. One was a. list' of military documents and secrets of the Austrian War Department, al- ready .supplied to tho Russian Gov- ernment; the other a list at thoB« about to be divulged. THlE RUSSIAN PRINCESS had been the last occupant of th« sofa, and the u*fitiiig on the docu' inent was found to be that of Baron not known what lovo is. I came to .you in tho tent because you called me â€" yes, 1 loved ymi tlieii, but not like (his. I camo to you wounded" -she drew him to her, .and kissed tho sling over his shoulder â€" "but not even then did I lovo you like this. T loved you (o-day when you stood bravo before (hem all with the crown l)Ut I did not love you like this. Thwe was earthly passion in all that love, pride in being loved, more pride in loving you. Now â€" ! Hec- tor, that you are going from mo â€" Pottier des Kstdielles, who hod had see, my whole soul is bare before you â€" I am â€" no, I cannot find word.s â€" 1 am choking â€" choking I " She rose, pressing her hands to her bosom. Uj) and down (he room she paced oxciledly for a moment or two, as if struggling to lind expres- sion for emolions that tore at tho very centre of her being. She s(op- peil and flung the curtains aside impetuously; then she undid the hasp, and opening (be window, step- ped out into the darkness for a moment. (To be Continued.) SOLCIEKS' LIVES EUIHED WOMEN WHO HAVE BETHAYED WAE SECRETS. Gen. Boulanger's Downfall â€" Sec- rets Won Erom British Officers. In nearly every instance of treach- ery and cori'uption resulting in a public scandal during the Last fifty years woman has played a prominent and ignoble part. The real instiga- tor of the crime, she goes unpunished free acces-s to his Royal master's cor*- (idential papers, and had thus be- trayed his trust. The unhappy traitor was informo<l (hat his treachery bad been discover- ed, and was confronted with tho ISm- peror, who, it is said, struck him ill the face with his clenched fist. Hd was court-martialled. and gen(once(( (o forfeit his rank and title and ti^ a long term of imprisonment in thi tor(ress he now occupies. With reference to the Dreyfus casci which, blasted so many reputations, i< is well known that women plavod t large part in its many intricaciost The names of Allle. Pays and Mmui Koulnincy in connection with Colonel Fslerhazy are notorious e.'iamplos ol the power of the woman spy; and it was the infatuation of General d< BoisdetTre for the wife of one of th« officers concerned which brought about his ju'esent disgiv.ice. The revo. lations in this ca.so led to a remark,- ahlo result. So gravi! was the scuiulal that, tho military autliorities of Kurope felt justified in issuing A PEREMPTOIiY (3RI)ER directing the commanding oflio'rs of bringing to those connected with her |tho armies of Germaii.v, Austria. It- ignominy, disgrace, exile, and some al.v, France, Russia, and Great Bri- times death. I(ain to state that if an.v olhcor un- Ono of the most notoriou.s of those dor their conunaud should ha\e his women who fc>r a time pulled the name intimately associated widi tiiat strings of history was (hi; Baroness 'of an.v woman, witli the excejition of de Kaula, a (U'rman b.y birdi. who ;liis wife .sliould ho be married, it caused the downfall of old General jwould iio( only debar him from .stair do Cissey, the Minister of War in ;omplo\niieiit and proiiioiion. Init Paris during the presidency of Mar- j might even lead to his being placeu' .shal MacMahon. The General, in- on the retired list. , fntuatod with the Barones.s was in It is .said (hat in (he .'^panish-Amer- the habit of lunching with her at |ican War (lie Cuban women were mo.st her house close to the Elyseo every | wonderfully elevi-r .spies, and, pre-' Thursday, after the meeting of the .tending hostility to the Ainericaii.s, Cabinet Council. While (liey were at gained information of the greatest lunch her servanfs were taking short- hand notes of the Ministerial papers .service from (lie .Spani.sh Gein.'rals who knew that their I'liemii's would in the General's portfolio, which were |l)eiielit (hereby. then forwarded in cipher to Bis- j During the late war in the Traim marck in Berlin, who thus knew jvaal the eternal fominine contii\itl ta every Frida.y morning all that. had ihave a finger in the jiie. The dif* passed in the French Cabinet Council icover.v was made (ha( our iiiiliiarv on Thur.sday. ciphers and secret codes w-eie being 'Phis went on for two years, and |regularly communicated to the Hoei might never have been di^u;over^.•tl' if i leaders; the astute authorities fnii*- (he Baroness had not made the mis- tjiected that women were responsible, taJte of being too grasiiing. .She sue- jand so it was. Modiers with t>eauti- ceeu'ed in obtaining from (he General, who could refuse her nothing, VALT-'ABl.E ARMY CONTRACTS for some of her friends; this le<l to searching inquiries op the part of di.sappointed candidates, and the whole business came out. Another woman of German extrac- tion, sister to one of (he ladiofs-in- waiting to the (irand Duelicss of Ila- ilen, brought ruin to many French stall oHicers. This was Mjue. Limou- ful and not (oo scrujiulous daugh- ters, who exiiiided frequent hospital- ity to confiding stall ofljcois. wer« suspected, nnd not without cause. On tho principle of setting a thiel to catch a thief, the Intelligence De- j)arlment employed a woman to linj out what ollices were sufiiciend.y sus- ceijtiblo (o feminine iii(lu<'iu;e to dis- close ,any of (he (ijlurs then in use. This was easily done, a certain amount of intimacy once having boon established, and tho victims' names sin. Married to a French magistrate of j were then sent to heaihpiarters. unsullied reputation, she took advant- Many ollicers were sent down; somo age of her position to organize tho 'sent ' homo, nnd others received a At last she spoke, trnfllc in the Legion of Honor decora- re;'riinand. wondering, no doubt how tions. which scandal caused such nn the authorities got their itifoiniutioii. outcry on its discovery that Presiclimt To our credit as .a nation, however. IGrevy resigni'd tho jiresidency in con- seijucnce. rois- I Mme. do IJinou.sin's was a record j(o play the jrnrt of betrayer.â€" Penr- gold jachii!vement: she effected the down- |<«)irs '\Veekly. it must, be said that it is (juite the excejition for any of our women-kind once of her fall of General Thibaudin; tho Mini»- ro,\alt.y and her wedding to Palmot- Iter of Wnr; of General the Count do to. Caffarel, his successor; of General tho "Not a thousand crowns can weigh Maniuis d'Andlau, nnd a number of down love like o<n-s; but there is Utnff oflicers who wero involved in your people, who have waited and i^j,^, name scandal. bled for you." I Among the great men brought to "My duty is hard, my duty is „aught by the evil influence of a hard. Why cannot I take your |^qj„j^„ (jp,,^,.,^ jjj,,,,^^,,^^^ stands out prominentl.v. At the climax of his career, when all Paris was at his foot and the future of France in the hol- low of his hand, ho threw everything away for a wojnan who wos another mon's wife. The Vicontesse de Bon- neininn called him to her side on tho night of his election as member of the Chamljer of TVputies for Pnrif*. Had ho obeyed the urgings ol his hand, and go out with into the night, and wander tho world with you, nnd taste what love really is 7 6 ! Hector, if I only could !" "But you wore pledged to them from your birth. You would make m« happy, you would bo happy yourself. After all. wo are only two.. 'Your people ore thousonds." "Hector â€" O. VIector, you love me?" Madidnlona "O ! T know, T know But I ipartiRons nnd marched upon the Kly- wnnt .your love now more than ever. Love UK, Hector, love me always, lA,'t your love be about, mo always â€" then t shnll be strong to endure, strong to he tho thing I am too weak in myself to b«. " see then and there, he might have been RUT KU OF FRANCE, but hi! listened Instead to the voice of the siren, and threw his career to the winds. \VHi:.M TREES GO TO SLEEP. Trees and plants have their regular times for going to sleeii. THey neiil to rest from the work of growing luid to repair and oil the machinery of life. Some plants do all their sleeiv- ing in the winter while the ground is frozen ami tho limbs are bare of leaves, Tn troi»ienl countries whoro the snow never fnll.r. and it is al- ways growing weather, the trees re- pos,-' during the rain.v s<>a."»on or dup- ing the j«riods of drought. They always choose the most unfavornblo working time for doing their sloop, just, as man chooses Uie night, when he cannot see to work. Jones â€" "Why do you call Mr, Wyz- hnin, tho undertaker, a wolf in sh.'oii's clothing? â-  .Smit.l»â€" "He doesn't ever drive the boys out of ki* green-apple orchavd."