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I never did try to figure it all out. When Miss Lady disappeared, and we-all couldn't find her nowhere, I just marked the whole thing off the slate, and went out hunting." "Cal," said Eddring, quietly, "did you ever stop to think that there is quite a similar sound in those three names, Loise, and Loisson, and Ellison?" Blount threw out his hands before him. "Oh, go on away, man," said he.
He was relieved when finally he felt it proper to turn up the old Esplanade, which wandered away with its rows of whitened trees, out among the dignified and reticent residences of the vieux carre. The flavor of another day came to him. This, indeed, was the same Nouvelle Orleans, he reflected, from which in an earlier day the first Louise Loisson had set sail for France!
But for that, and for the kindness of Madame Delchasse here, I might have starved. I am no longer any one you ever knew. Behind this mask sometimes I forget." Eddring looked at her with strange earnestness. "You don't know how true is every word you speak," said he. "There is absolute fatality under all this. On my honor, I believe you are Louise Loisson, born over again!
"There is something wrong in this. I must get this message to Miss Loisson, and I must find out what all this means." A few moments later their own carriage brought up with a jerk, and Eddring, dragging madame by the arm, hurried across the stage plank almost as it was on the point of being raised.
'Bon! he cry, and so it is determine'. She dance always in the domino. It is most romantique, most a'mirab'. So this is now the religion of all the young men, mais, oui, this jeune fille, Mademoiselle Louise Loisson!" "And how does Madame Delchasse regard this public dancing by her jeune fille?" "Monsieur, she worship' Mademoiselle Louise.
He seems to have learned from this Indian lawsuit, whether or not he was concerned other than as counsel in that lawsuit and the record does not show whether or not he was that Delphine, or his claimant, whoever that was we'll say Delphine, for we don't know Delphine's real name, perhaps could and did stick on the pay-rolls of an Indian tribe. That meant that she was Loise, and not Loisson.
As to this marriage, it must not be. Madame, take this message to Miss Loisson; if you can, induce her to go to her old and true friend, Colonel Blount, if it be not too late now for that. I am sure you will be thankful all your life; and so will she. Find her; I will find Decherd. We must get up to Blount's place then. He's hurt. He may be killed."
Here it is. He says, 'Louise Loisson our Miss Lady. He has found out something, too, at the other end of the line, hasn't he, Decherd? Notice, he says, 'our Miss Lady. She is ours, not yours. I am going to take her along with me, back to the Big House, and to her friend, Colonel Blount. He says, 'Watch out for Decherd. I am watching out for him.
After they were seated at table in an adjoining cafe, Eddring tossed over to his friend a late copy of a New Orleans newspaper. "You see that headline?" said he. "It's all about a dancer, Miss Louise Loisson. You ever hear that name before?" "Why, no, I don't seem to remember it, if I ever did." "Well, that name is bothering me mightily just now.
He was a lawyer; so much the more dangerous, as I'll show you. Now Paul Loise was official interpreter for the United States government at St. Louis in 1825. He was of absolutely no kinship to the Comte de Loisson, the similarity of names being a mere coincidence, though one which has made much trouble in the records since that time, as I have discovered.
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