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The old square was quite quiet, for the good Liègois retire early, and the only sound was the musical carillon of the bells. In impatience I waited. The silent night was clear, bright, and frosty, with a myriad shining stars above. Time after time the great clock above me chimed the quarters, until just before two o'clock there came a dark female figure round the corner, walking quickly.

I am only a paid agent." "Ah!" They walked on in silence a few paces. The bells of St. Isaac's Church suddenly burst out into a wild carillon, as is their way, effectually preventing further conversation for a few moments. "Will you go?" asked the girl, when the sound had broken off as suddenly as it had commenced. "Probably. I am curious and not nervous except of damp sheets.

Ah, look to the west! See, on another hill, two miles away, rings of smoke also are rising!" "Which means that two bands of French Indians are talking to each other, Tayoga?" "It is so, Great Bear, and here within the lands of the Hodenosaunee! Perhaps Frenchmen are with them, Frenchmen from Carillon or some other post that Onontio has pushed far to the south."

Where two sandy wood roads crossed, a mounted gendarme halted them and examined their papers. "My poor child," he said to the girl, shaking his head, "the wounded at Nivelle were taken away during the night. They are fighting there now in the streets." "In Nivelle streets!" faltered the girl. "Oui, mademoiselle. Of the carillon little remains. The Boches have been shelling it since daylight.

In Teuton lands, where their cousins are named kobolds, and in France where they are called fee, and in England brownies, they have tolling and ringing of bells, with peals, chimes and cascades of sweet sound; but the Netherlands, still, above all others on earth, is the home of the carillon.

The first blow struck upon the bell in that tower of the Lion began the tolling for the passing away of the feudal system, and began the joy- peal, or carillon, for whatever deserves joy, in that of our modern liberties, whether of action or of trade.

Very early she climbed up into the ancient belfry, wound the drum so that the bells would play a few bars at the quarters and before each hour struck; and also in order that the carillon might ring mechanically at noon in case she had not returned to take her place at the keyboard with her wooden gloves.

"Give her air, and stand back!" called the sharp voice of the constable of Carillon, and he heaved the people back with his powerful shoulders. A space was cleared round the place where Fleda sat with her head against the shoulder of the stately woman in black who had come to her assistance.

Its nocturnal beginning with the carillon- like bass a bass that ever recalls to me the faint, buried tones of Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell," the sweetly grave close of the section, the faint hoof-beats of an approaching cavalcade, with the swelling thunders of its passage, surely suggests a narrative, a programme.

She'll make this country sit up some day-by gorry, she'll make Manitou and Lebanon sit up to-day if she runs the Carillon Rapids safe!" "She's runnin' 'em all right, son. She's by jee, well done, Miss Druse! Well done, I say well done!" exclaimed Jowett, dancing about and waving his arms towards the adventurous girl.