The Four Corners Abroad

gay like that upon our holiday. If you have your Forrs July, and your great Vashington, we have our Fourteen July, our day of Bastille. We must zen see ze city, ze illumination, ze dance, ze p

liberte, for zough we rejoice we do not forget our native politeness. It wil

om together. "Is it anything like pastilles, those funny sweet-smelling things we ha

"I wasn't thinking much about anything she wa

as or Pas?" Jack

les you have in mind. In fact there isn't any more Bastille at all. Do

ething like a big key. What

terrible place, and when the Revolution began one of the first things the Revolutionists wanted to destroy was the great fortress, so they cried, 'Down with the Bastille!' Then they had a tremendous fight over it, for to the mass of people it represented the power of the monarchy, and to th

off. What are we goi

oing to Versailles and to St. Cloud, to the Museé de Cluny, t

said Jack, who delighted in such pe

est till you get there,

vily on their hands. Mary Lee loved the Jardin des Plantes, Jo never tired of the boulevards, and delighted in riding on the tops of the omnibuses. Nan reveled in the Louvre and the Museé de Cluny, Jean liked the Lu

she must be censured. As Miss Helen said, it was all the point of view, and from Jack's standpoint, if you did but tell the truth, did no one harm, and pursued what seemed a rational and agreeable course, why sta

older person with you." This order the children always fulfille

not daring to go beyond bounds, she returned to the house to report. Nan immediately left her practicing to go in search of her little sister. She ventured, herself,

fallen into the lake; suppose she had been beguiled away by some beggar who would strip her of her clothes

ou think she could have been run

reasons for doing as she does, but this time I cannot imagine where she could have gone. Mother and Aunt Helen are both at h

" suddenly cried J

ried Nan grasping

ing this way. Do

down from the side of the red-faced cocher, shake hands with two gaudily dres

shake, "where have you been? Do you know you have scared Jean and me n

ed Jack with a

been run over or had fallen in

went on in a tone of injured innocence, "that I wouldn't go anywhere without an olde

ldn't know where you had gone, and th

etimes. Aunt Helen always tries to have this man when she can, so to-day when he asked me if I didn't want to ride back with him, he was going bac

laimed Nan co

ul feathers in her hat,"

ever min

ally the cocher said if I could go, too, he would take them for a franc and a ha

was the

et things to eat and drink. They didn't as

hen you waited, and the

ther, so when I saw you and Jean I said I would get down,

nked and put to bed,

e is a very nice cocher; his name is Fran?ois, and I am sure I minded mother. It would have been quite differe

to go anywhere with strange cochers, or strange any other per

ry hard to keep up with the exactions of her family who w

ey all set out to see the sights. Along the Seine they concluded they would be able to see more than elsewhere, so they made the Louvre and the Palais Royal their destination. The streets were full of a good-natured, jostling throng. Every now and then the party would come upon some dancers footing it gaily in some "place" or at some street corner. The café

people is very different from the bloodthirsty mob that gloried in the guillotine then. Just over there the guillotine was set up, wasn't it? And, somewhere near, those horrible fishwiv

ing to have a good time. One could be miserable anywhere, remembering past history. I am sure to-night doesn't suggest an angry

he managed to get hold of Jack before the child was wholly swallowed up in the

t make any difference if I did lose you all," she declared.

uldn't like to bother him," ret

ll him monsieur often enough he get

, till the others come up. Don't you think it is fun? I can't im

mobile, and I wish he were here anyhow, so he could dance with me. I'd love to go da

d 'blanchisseuse,' wouldn't I? Suppose we should be seen by some of our friends, wh

h longing eyes upon each company of dancers they passed. Nan managed to keep a pretty strict looko

ry Lee, who had experienced no difficul

ittle sister. "She gets perfectly lost to everything but what is interesting her at the time, and for

Mary Lee scolded, Jean began to

of Paris on such a night as this," she said anxiou

great way off. You and some of the others stand here, and I'll g

ught a glimpse of her,

ed Nan, cran

where you he

ng in the streets, and very like

, sure enough, in the centre of a company of dancers, was Jack with a rou

s of the circle of onlookers, and then Nan forced hers

finally surrendered to her proper guardians by the rotund Frenchman who

la petite Americaine. He has a brother in New York and was so pleased when I told him

, paying small attention to what Jack was

me Lemercier said on Bastille day every one could do just what she wanted, and I am sure I was only d

n, between smiles and frowns, could only ejaculate,

ner had been, Jack could not see the least indiscretion in joining in the d

t she with the rest? She could understand Nan's not caring to dance because she objected to being conspicuous; as to any other reason, it never entered the child's head." So, as usual, Jack got

te in the Paris streets, and when they stopped at a café, less crowded than most,

less easily, and Jo declared that it would be impossible for herself ever to get rid of her American accent. But it was Jack who soon picked up a surprising vocabulary which she used to the utmost advantage, jabbering away with whomsoever she came in contact, be it some cocher or the learned professor who sat next her at tab

ur of play. Jack liked their looks, and was determined to make their acquaintance. She accordingl

them speak to me

. "Maybe their governess won't let them

h," returned Jack, nothing daunted. "I saw her watch m

p about it," replied Je

me of those great big girls, and I know I ca

ing it triumphantly home and presenting it the next day to the owner with a polite little speech. The thanks she received made a sufficient wedge for Jack and she was soon talking affably to the little girls as well as to the governess. Jack could be the most en