“Alas, no, Monsieur Dufayel. I am a man the most ignorant. I did not know that my friend had done such great things.”
“You didn’t? Then what in the name of heaven did you think Napoleon was?”
“A sort of murderer,” said Papa Chibou humbly.
Out beyond the walls of Paris in a garden stands the villa of Georges Dufayel, who has become, everyone says, the most eloquent and successful young lawyer in the Paris courts. He lives there with his wife, who has bright dark eyes. To get to his house one must pass a tiny gatehouse, where lives a small old man with a prodigious walrus moustache. Visitors who peer into the gatehouse as they pass sometimes get a shock, for standing in one corner of its only room they see another small man, in uniform and a big hat. He never moves, but stands there by the window all day, one hand in the bosom of his coat, the other at his side, while his eyes look out over the garden. He is waiting for Papa Chibou to come home after his work among the asparagus beds to tell him the jokes and the news of the day.
TOWERS OF FAME
By ELIZABETH IRONS FOLSOM
From McClure’s
HE raised his voice to bar interruption.
“You cannot tell anything about any one. Romance survives where you least expect it. Would you look for it in Eric Hall, for instance? Would you suspect him of Romance?”
“Well, hardly,” said one of the listeners. “Not that calculating, cold man—all indifference. Just to make your point, don’t try to prove that he has known sentiment.”
“More than most men,” replied Kent. “I have a notion to tell you about him. I will tell you. Come closer, Janet—all of you—to hear the unbelievable.”
“About Judge Eric Hall who knows only power—fame!” They laughed.