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154 GOOD AND EVIL. slightly stooping form and the difficulty which he experi- enced in walking. ‘“‘Good-day, my child,’’ he said to Claudine, with a kindly air, and he saluted the two young people. — But in passing before Belle-Rose, he looked at him with so singular an expression, that the latter could not refrain from lowering his eyes; it seemed to him that this look searched the depths of his heart and read his most secret thoughts. After a short moment given to this mute ob- servation, the old officer entered the garden. Belle-Rose turned to Claudine as if to question her. ‘‘It is Monsieur d’Albergotti,’’ said she. And she immediately added, to dissipate a sad preoccu- pation: ‘‘A great joy is reserved to you, my brother.’’ ‘“What is it?’’ said Belle-Rose, whose mind was else- where. “My friend, you are going to sce again the honest old falconer whom I have conducted from St. Omer to the camp,’’ said Cornelius. Belle-Rose embraced Cornelius. ‘‘Guillaume Grinedal and Pierre,’’ said he, ‘‘but where are they, then?”’ ‘*At the quarters of the artillery. ”’ ~ Belle-Rose ran in that direction, followed at a distance by Claudine and Cornelius. The falconer and his young son were proud to have an officer in the family. They had been waiting for him since morning, and as soon as they saw him each of them extended his arms. ‘‘T bring you a recruit,’’ said the old falconer to Jacques, after the first embraces. ‘‘Pierre, I imagine,’’ said Jacques, smiling at his brother. } ‘Yes; he also wishes to become an officer of the king,’’ ‘*Well,’’ said Belle-Rose, ‘‘let him take a musket; the musket leads to the sword.”’ Monsieur de Naucrais had charged Déroute to say to his lieutenant that he could absent himself till night. “Discipline and family do not go together,’’ he had said; ‘‘let him be all to the one to-day so he shall be all to the other to-morrow.’’ While Belle-Rose, accompanied by his father, Cornelius, © Claudine, and Pierre, went to seek a little silence and re- pose ina neighboring village, the Lorraine was prowling about the camp. After having acquired an exact knowl- edge of the localities, the Lorraine moved away. Conrad — & comicbooks.co