6 LOVE'S CLOCK. O, the hours of Love may be many or ft'W, So they be gny. But the Clock of Love—one-two, one two— Ticks out the time alway. Nought recks Love of the hours that fleet. Borne on the winds of sighs, •But the Clock of Love has grown dis creet, And old and wise. Tlck-tock, tiek-tock. The Clock . Is old and wise. Each hand that points to the hours of Love Is a Cupid's dart; Each tick that bids to the tryst of Love Is the pulse of a beating heart. And forward and back the pendulum swings, Ever for joy or woe. For the Clock of. Love has seen many things. And he should know. Tlck-tock, tick-tock. The Clock— And he should know. "Then one arid two and three and four. And seven and eight, The hour hand circles the dial once more— O, dreary and long the wait! Love may quarrel at Time's delay- Straight move the hands and slow. For the old Clock knows that the golden day Too soon may go. Tlck-tock, tick-tock. The Clock Has seen them go. —Wallace Irwin. In Criterion. M A ROSE OF M NORMANDY J WILLIAM R. A. WILSON *•*% w CHAPTER I. IN WHICH A PRISONER ESCAPES AND A SOLILOQUY Iri INTER RUPTED. The sun slione fair in France one bright June day in the year of our Lord, IG7S, and the thirty-fifth of the reign of that Louis whom men called "Great." And nowhere was the sun light fairer than in the capital city, "where the presence of a conquering and pleasure-loving monarch and his be wildering court attracted the bravest and gayesi of all Europe. The streets of Paris resounded on the self-same day to the prancing and pawing of war horses, the gay fanfare of trumpets announcing ilie return of a victorious general from the Nether lands, or the rumbling of the great <-oach of state as the king himself hurried 011 to take part in some fan tastic dance or ballet at the palace, stopping, perchance, at the cathedral door to off-T thanks with all true loyal subjects and join in some great "Te Deuin" sung in honor of another battle won. Amidst such confusion the ordinary affairs of liie and state went on as ■though naught but the humdrum plans of a peaceful nation were afoot. People lived and died a natural death (occasionally) they ate, drank, and slept, through it all. The dead were ■buried and the living blest, much the same as they had been since first the church spire and the dark-robed priest had superseded the old savage faiths. Even the millstones of justice (that is to say, th? king* ground silently and with their Accustomed fineness, while ithe ax, the rope, and the wheel did •their kind work in sending prisoners •of stale to a eouutry where lettres d" cachet were unknown. llis most christian majesty believed in the deterrent effect the sight of the final act in the drama of a criminal's 'life had upou all good citizens. He likewise wished it. times that his peo ple, even those of the lower classes, should t»e amused. Accordingly ha achieved these two ends by frequent public even turns in the Place de la Greve. This. being a commodious square hard by the Pont Notre Dame, was well adapted to a large audience, while th. 1 balcon> of the Hotel de Ville at it.-* southern end afforded an excellent pedestal on which the king and the beauties and gallants of his court could show themselves when ever an execution of especial impor tance took place. On the day wi.'ii which this narra tive opens the morning had worn away until the sun with vertical rays beat down upon the heads of the spectators. There had been three instructive and successful executions thus far. "Phe first wretch was broken on the wheel, tiie second hanged, and the third torn to pieces by horses. The king and ■ nun party in the gallery had departed after repeated half-suppressed ex pressions of ennui at th'' end of this third act. and there remained but one poor devil of i nameless fellow to be •dispai.:hed by the knife. A raised pla'iuni occupied the cen ter of the S't'iai • About it was drawn up a double line of soldiers, some armed with halberds, others with muskets, who keot the people from crowding too ru-.i From the scaffold n narrow lane w,i3 kept open by a company or archers to a cart, on which the condemned had ridden to t!i» scene of their execution, and on which they awaited in silence their tturr. Every oilier available inch was r>< eupied by a d -nse mass of perspii inn. jostling humanity, who good-humor edly enjoyed fh • irene, despite the heal and pi ess. It was to be no-iced by a careful i ••observer tlia; neither pfty nor con- j •u-rn was anywh'TJ manifested for the 1 area already even though one was of comparatively high rank lie had, in the collection of the taxes, made the fatal mistake of trying to cheat the king as well as the com mons. But as the preparations wen!, on for the dispatch of the fourth and last, an uneasy feeling spread about among the throng. Although few knew accurately his crime or even name, yet many felt him entitled te their sympathy because he was not a noble whom they could admire for his magnificence and hate for his selfish arrogance, but one of themselves, a man of the people, who for some un known cause had incurred the dis pleasure of the king or one of his creatures. On the outskirts of the crowd, not far from the cart on which the re maining unfortunate sat, stood a small group of spectators conversing in tones so low that the near-by soldiers could not hear them. "What think you, friend Picon," said a muscular fish-wife to a swarthy butcher fresh from the neighboring shambles, "has it come about that M. le Ministre Colbert can arrest, con demn, and behead whom he pleases?" The man addressed scowled at the armed men guarding the prisoner, and muttered: "Devil take them!" Then turning, he replied in a low guttural voice' "They say yon fellow is no criminal, but has been hounded to the galleys and the Bastille, and from the Bastille to the block by the hate of my Lord Colbert." While this conversation had been going on and the condemned man was being helped down from the cart, the sun's brightness gradually lessened, and more than one spectator involun tarily looked up to see what cloud ob scured the light. But there was noth ing visible in the clear sky. Yet little by little did the noon-time brilliancy fade away, as though the eternal fires o®* '. v HIS ATTITUDE WAS ONE OF DE JECTION. were being quenched. Soon others no ticed it, and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the cause of the sudden change. They too, seeing no cloud, became uneasy, until their fear spread through the crowd, making it surge to and fro. A few of the women crossed themselves and others mut tered a prayer. "Le bon Dieu is angry," some one said. "This man must be innocent," another shouted. Through it all the soldiers never faltered, but went steadily on with the preparations for the final execution. The prisoner had started up the hu man lane towards the scaffold. Half way to his destination, he was halted while the lines of soldiery who had been driven together by the pressure of the multitude forced the people back. No one but the soldiers watched lhe prisoner, who, after a glance at the darkening sky, smiled grimly, then watched keenly the turn of events. The light did not increase, but be came more and more obscure, and that nameless terror which often seizes a great multitude and forces them to attempt to flee manifested itself. Only one more terrifying element was need ed to change the assembly into a panic-stricken, stampeding mob. Nor was this wanting, for the wall of a building that was being dismantled on one side of the square, now occupied by a clinging crowd of spectators, sud denly fell with a crash and a great cloud of dust. During the confusion, the prisoner, with an eye alert for any opportunity to escape, was partly torn, partly dodged away from his captors, and was soon lost in the tumult. As he was borne along, he passed a hercu lean butcher and a fish-wife struggling in the jam. The latter, with a smile of satisfaction, ran the keen edge of a small knife over the cords that bound the fugitive's hands, and he was free. High up in the most weather stained of a row of gable-ended houses that overlooked the square wherein the above scene of terror was enacted sat a man. His room was on the top floor under the eaves, whose side walls were formed by the slanting roof. Two windows admitted both light and air; one of them opened upon the square, the other upon the Hue de la Tanerie. 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