THE GIRL'S OWNPAPER
| Vol. XX.—No. 979.] | OCTOBER 1, 1898. | [Price One Penny. |
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"OUR HERO."
THE MESSAGE OF THE MARGUERITES.
ABOUT SOME NORMANDY DAIRIES.
SOME PRACTICAL HINTS ON COSMETIC MEDICINE.
PREPARATION FOR MARRIAGE.
AUTUMN.
LILIAN'S FELLOW-TRAVELLER.
INVALID COOKERY.
ART IN THE HOUSE.
A NEW PRIZE COMPETITION.
VARIETIES.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"OUR HERO."
A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WARNINETY YEARS AGO.
By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of "Sun, Moon and Stars,""The Girl at the Dower House," etc.
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CHAPTER I.
IF WAR SHOULD BREAK OUT.
"You don't mean to say it,my dear sir! You'reabsolutely jesting.I'm compelled to believethat you arepleased to talk nonsense.To take theboy! Impossible!"
"I never was more soberin my life, I do assure you,ma'am."
"The thing is incredible.No, sir, I cannot believe it.'Tis bad enough that youshould be going abroad at all at thistime, you and your wife. But to placean innocent babe of eleven years inthe power of that wicked Corsican——Closeupon thirteen, say you? Well,well, twelve years old! 'tis much thesame. My dear sir, war is a certainty.We shall be embroiled with Francebefore six weeks are ended."
"That is as may be. We intend tobe at home again long before six weeksare gone by. A fortnight in Paris;nothing more. The opportunity is notto be lost; and as you know, all theworld is going to France just now. Sopray be easy in your mind."
Colonel Baron adjusted his rigidstock, and held his square chin aloft,looking over it with a benevolent thoughcombative air towards t