you would not long regret that


you deceive yourself i should long re gret itfor ever


genevive genevive exclaimed maurice have pity on me


genevive shuddered


it was the first time maurice had pronounced her name with such a profound expression


well continued maurice since you have divined my meaning let me express all genevive


if you could have destroyed me with a look it would have already been done


i shall speak genevive


sir said the young woman i begged you in the name of our friendship to be silent sir i now again beg of you for my sake if not for your own not another word in the hame of heaven not another word


friendship friendship ah i if it was only a friendship similar to that j ou bear me or even morand i do not desire it genevive


enough said madame dixmer with a queenly gesture enough mons


lindey


here is our carriage


will you conduct me to my husband


maurice trembled with feverish excitement when genevive to rejoin the carriage which was in fact only a few paces distant placed her hand on his arm


it seemed to the young man as if her hand was burning hot


both entered the corriage and seated themselvesgenevive on the back and maurice on the front seat


they traversed the whole of paris without ex changing a syllable


during the route genevive held her hand kerchief to her eyes


when they entered the workshop dixmer was busily occupied in his office


morand had returned from rambouillet and was changing his dress


genevive extended her hand to maurice and when entering her chamber said adieu maurice since you have forced it to this


maurice made no reply


he went straight to the chimney where a portrait of genevive was hanging he kissed it passionately pressed it to his heart returned it to its place and retired maurice reached his home without knowing it


he had traversed paris without hearing or seeing am thing


all that occurred had swam past him as if in a dream without his i being able to render any account of his actions or words or of the sentiments which inspired both


there are times when minds the most serene and over which there is a complete mastery are insensible to the violent emotions excited by the imagination


maurice undressed without the aid of his domestics made no reply to the cook who presented a supper ready prepared and took up his letters which he read one after the other without comprehending a word they contained


the mists of jealousy the intoxication of reason were not dissipated


at ten oclock maurice went mechanically to bed


if a stranger had recounted to maurice in his cooler moments the strange conduct of which he had been guilty he would not have comprehended it but would have considered him a fool who had contemplated such a des perate alternative which neither the reserve nor prudence of genevive could authorise


he felt that a terrible blow had been dealt to his hopes which he had never duly estimated but on which vaguea a floating vapour in the sky all his dreams of happiness had reposed


the same thing occurred to maurice that is sure to happen m similar cases


overwhelmed with the blow he had received he fell asleep the moment he was in bed or in other words remained insensible to all until the morning


he was awakened by a noise


it was his ser vant who opened the door


he came accord ing to custom to open the windows of the bed chamber which looked upon the garden and a collection of flowers


maurice loved these much but he did not even glance towards them


supporting his confused head on his hand he half arobe and endeavoured to recall the past


maurice asked himself without being able to reply what were the reasons of his stupidity the only one was his jealousy of


morand but the time was badly chosen to amuse himself with jealousy of a man who was then at rambouillet


in a tteatte with a woman whom one loves there should have been that suavity of manner which nature in the first days of spring ought to suggest


there was no existing doubt as to what passed in the house at auteuil where he had accom panied genevive the torment rather arose from the idea that morand loved genevive


singular phaniasy strange capriceon no single occasionhad a geslure look or word proceeded from dixmers associate to justify j such a supposition


j his valets voice aroused him from his re


verie


citizen said he pointing to the letters open upon tbetable have you sehcifd those you ill preserve or may i burn all


burnwhat asked maurice


the letters which the citizen read before he went to bed


maurice did not remember having read a single letter


burn them all said he


here are the letters by this days post citizen


he presented a packet of letters to maurice and threw the others into the fireplace


maurice took the bundle and believed he de tected a perfume


he searched amongst them and discovered a seal and handwriting which made him start


the man so firm in front of danger grew pale at the perfume of a single letter


the domestic drew near to inquire what was the matter with him


maurice motioned him to retire


he then turned and turned again the letter which a piesentiment told him con tained some evil for him citizen maurice it is absolutely necessary that we should break those ties which on your part seem to mirpass the boundary of friendship


citizen you are a man of honour and as a nighthas passed over since the occurrence of last evening you will now be able to understand how painful your presence will be in our house


i shall rely upon your finding some excuse to satisfy my husband


i shall feel convinced on the re ceipt of your letter this day directed to my husband that i have to regret the loss of a friend whose senses are unhappily wandering but whom every rule of society must prevent me from seeing


adieu for ever


genevive


psthe bearer awaits an answer


maurice called


his servant made his ap pearonce


who brought this letter


an errandboy


is he there


yes maurice neither sighed nor hesitated


he leaped out of bed drew on his clothes sat down at his desk took up the first sheet of paper before him one which hud the inscrip tion of his section at its head and wrote as follows citizen dixmeb i love you and continue to do but i cannot see you again


maurice endeavoured to find the reason why he should not revisit him only one presented itself to his mindit was one which at that period would have suggested itself to all


he continued


certain i umours are afloat as to jour coolness regarding the cause


i have no desire to accuse you nor any wish that you should defend yourself


accept my sincere regrets and test assured jour secrets will remain buried in my heart


maurice did not reperuse the letter which as we have stated he had written under the first impression


there could be no doubt as to the effect it would produce


dixmer an excellent patriot as maurice could judge from his conversation at least would be greatly an noyed on receiving it


his wife and morand will advise with him


he will not even answer and oblivion will cast its dark veil over the smiling past converting it into a dismal future


maurice signed and sealed the note handed it to his servant and the errandlad departed


then a feeble sijrh escaped from the heart of the republican


he took his hat and gloves and proceeded to his section


our poor brutus expected to recover his stoicism in the midst of public affairs


they ere terrihle the st of may was preparing


terror like a torrent precipitated itself trom the summit of the mountain against the barrier which the girondin party those bold moralfaced men who de manded vengeance for the massacres of sep tember and struggled to save the kings life had placed in its path


whilst maurice toiled with such ardour that the fever he wished to avert devoured his head instead of his heart the messenger returned to the old street st jacques and filled the house with stupefaction and alarm


the letter after having been examined by genevive was handed to dixmer


dixmer opened and read it without at first being able to comprehend it


then he communicated it to citizen morand who dropped his marble like brow upon his hand


in the position in which dixmer morand and their accomplices were placed a situation perfectly unknown to maurice but whicfyour readers have guessed this letter fell amongst them like a thunderbolt


is he an honest man asked dixmer with agony


yes answered morand without hesita tion


it does not matter observed the man of extreme measures


you see the evil that arises from not killing him


friend said morand we struggle against violence we brand it as a criminal


we have done well whatever may result in not having assassinated any one


besides i repeat it that i believe maurice possesses a noble and honest heart yes but if this noble heart belongs to an exalted republican will he regard it as a crime having discovered something to immolate his honour on the altar of his country as it is termed


but said morand do you believe that he knows anjthing


ehl do you not hear


he speaks of secrets which will remain buried in his heart


these are evidently the secrets which were confided to him by me relative to the smuggling


he knows no others


but said morand from the interview at auteuil has he suspected nothing


you know that he attended your wife


i myself requested genevive to take maurice with her us a safeguard


hear rae said morand we shall soon see if these suspicions are true


on the nd of june our turn arrives to be on guard in toe tempie that is to say in about eight days


you dixmer are captain i lieutenant


if our battalion or even our company receive counter orders as did that the other day of battedes moulins all is discovered and all we can do will be to fly from pans or perish fighting


if oh the other hand everything follows its usual course we ara lost in the same manner replied dixmer


par dieu does not all depend on the cooperation of this municipal


it is not he who without knowing it ought to open the way even to the queens presence


true replied morond dejected


yousep thencontinued dixmer bending his brows that at any price we must renew the acquaintance of the man


bat if he declines if he is afraid to com promise himself said morand


stop remarked dixmer i will question genevive


she was the last who saw him j she may know something


dixmer said morand i observe with piin that you mix up genevive with all our plottings j not that i fear any indiscretion on her part


no but the game we are playing is a terrible one and i feel both shame and pity n risking a womans head


a womans headv answered dixmer weighs the same as that of a man that stra tagem candour or beauty often does mure than force strength or courage


genevive partakes of our convictions and sympathies


genevive will shuru our lot do as jou will dear friend replied mo rand i have said what i ought do as you will genevive is in every point worthy of the mission you have givenr her or rather which she has bestowed upon herself


the saints compose the martyrs


he extended his white and effeminate hand to dixmer who squeezed it within his vigorous palms


then dixmer recommonding to morand and his companions a more active surveillance than ever entered genevieves apartment


she was seated at a table her look bent on her em broidery and her head bowed


she turned on the opening of the door and recognised dix mer


ah it is you my dear friend said she


yes answered dixmer with a placid and smiling countenance


i have received from our friend maurice a letter the contents of which i cannot comprehend


there read it aud tell me what you think of it


genevive took the letter with one hand which notwithstanding her self command she could not prevent from trembling


dixmer followed her eyes as they traced over each line


to be continued death


cxubbthat truth is indeed stranger than fiction has been fearfully de monstrated by the murderous revelations in the late poisoning cases in essex


in that country it has been proved there are chidren of the night who if much less intellectual are quite as remorseless as those drawn by sir edward bulwer lytton


the difference however between the romance and the reality of crime is strikingly marked


dalibatd and his female coadjutor are depicted as poisoners of the most refined class


they reason elaborately on the crimes they commit and calculate the chances of life and death and discovery with marvel lous precision and the utmost care


not so the lowbred and ignorant perpetrators of a similar class of atrocities in essex


dalibard would have disdained arsenic as a means of murder


the poisons he selected were slow enough to be almost imperceptible in their operation but all the more fatal that they defied alike detec tion and remedy


eugene sue is equally recherche in his choice of destructive agents


his villains are endowed with riflective facul ties of a high order and therefore scornfully reject the commonplace of assassination


the i wretches who practise the art of poisoning in essex are infinitely less select in the choice of means and carry out their fpll purposes on the most ordinary and vulgar principle of calcula tion


husbands have been poisoned by wives with arsenic with as little remorse as if they had been the rats and the children white powdered one after another partly from a desire of getting rid of the trouble of rearing them


an illicit attachment or even simple dislike has sufficed to induce commission of the greatest of human crimes


butthough such ignorant poisoners have not been able to soar to the refinement indulged in by the heroes of bulwer lytton and sue and knowing nothing of the rarer secrets of the science in one respect they are on a level with the crea tions of fiction


the working of the sordid and selfish principle is equally strong in both


dalibards organ of destructiveness was cdled into action by the anticipation of a fortune and estate in perspective


in real life as is but too well established the hope of gain from a burial club is one at least among the motives to murder in moral england


in the rural dis trict where arsenic has been so freely and fatally distributed the burial club system has been in full operation


by the payment of a trifling sum per quarter or was secured when


ever death took place


anything more calcu lated to develop the hidden wickedness of the heart in those devoid of conscience and intelli gence and alive only to the promptings of malignant selfishness cannot easily be conceived


burial clubs are in still more extensive opera tion in the manufacturing districts and the hame horrible results are more than suspected


parents traffic in the lives of their children and subscribe to as many clubs as their means allow in order to receive payment from each when poison or parental neglect no less atro cious has done its work


this miserable temptation to the destruction of life must no longer be suffered to exist


either burial clubs must be altogether suppressed or surrounded with restrictions which will remove this dread ful stimulus to crime


death clubs they may be well termed when they are found to be directly productive of an organised system of revolting murderatlas


marie antonette on the chevalier ofie red howe


chaptkr


i the voluneers


our tale opens on the ening of the idh of march


the ola of notre darle struck ten each stroke daching itself froki the old tower the fleetragounds resembling the passage of nocturnal rds of evil omen forsaking their bronzedint and flying pastl sad monotous and vibrtil


the night closed in upon paris cold foggfid gloomy


paris was not then like the sai paris we now be hold glittering with relee


light the streets crowded with bustling m of business the taverns ringing with joyonaughter and her bacchanalian faubourgsrbiterous and noisy the fit nurseries for crime id violence


paris seemed the nretiring and tiri yet fully preoc cupied


the few citizens v went abroad ran rather than walked fron feet to street and dived into the alleys and gatays like wild beats when pursued by the huntt taking refuge in their dens


it was in shor pa in as it was on the oth of march


brief explanation of the change effected in he aspect of the capital may elucidate thostvents which it is the object of this history tcrecord


france by the death of louis xvl had severed all connection between her and e rest of europe


in addition to the three enee whom she badi combatted were added engnd holland and spain


sweden and dennis alone preserved


a neutrality watching wthnxiety the efforts of catherine of russia to member poland


her situation was frightfuln the extreme


less disdained as a physical wcr france was less respepted as a moraron glnce the mas sacres of september andtbexecution of the king on the st of januar ghe was lite rally in the position of ja ty besieged and blockaded by the whola qflrpe


the force of england was on the shore that of spain in the pyrenees austria onhhialpsi and hol land and prussia in the lowountries


from one gingie point in the uppe rhine men marched against thepepublio


every where the generals of fraoe were repulsed


c


miaczingki was compelled abandon aixla i chapelle and to retreat to lbr gteingel and neuilly were driven into tnilimbourg mi randa who besieged maestri fen back on tongres valence and damper were also forced to retreat with the m m the greater portion of their materiel ards of deserters bad forsaken the arnyju joally the w convention having oo hope iniijfy ne save in kias a t ft dumouriez had despatched cornier after courier to command him to abandon the banks of the biebbos whore he was meditating a descent upon holland and take roon him self the command of the army of the lieuse


sensitive as the heart of an animaied body parisfeltforall france every one of thvreverses revolts or invasions which cowardice or trea chery had permitted even on the most extreme points of the frontier


on the evenii of the th the convention held a very stormy meeting


ah officers had orders to rejoin timr regi ments at thesame hour and danton that au dacious proposer of impossibilities which nevertheless were accomplished mounted the tribune and exclaimed you want soldiers you say


let us afford paris the opportunity of saving france


ask her for thirtj thou sand men send them to dumouriez and not only is france saved but belgium is assured and holland conquered


the proposition was received with cries of enthusiasm


the parisian sectional divisions were invited to meet in the evening and open registers for enrolment of names


the theatres vvere closed to prevent any distraction and the black flag unfurlel on the townhall in sign of national distress


before midnight thirtyfive thousand men had inscribed their names


the same thing oc curred nt the enrolment that evening that took place in september viz in each section on inscribing their names the volunteers demanled that previous to their departure the traitors should be punished


these traitors werf in reality the counterrevolutionists the conspira tors within who threatened the state already assailed from without


the mountain party who were the stronger considered that the girondins who were the weaker must be the traitors


accordingly on the morning of the th of march when the mayor and council of the commune presented their report ns to the devotedness of the people the same demand was made for the punishment of the traitors


a committee was appointed and a report made that a tribunal composed ol nine judges would he formed with full powers to prosecute and punish all who misled the peeple


the girondins saw in that proposition the warrant for their arrest and rising in a mass they exclaimed we shall prefer death to the establishment of such a venetian inquisition


the mountain party demanded the vote


yes cried feiaud let us vote and pro claim to the world the men who seek to assas sinate the innocent under the mask of the law


the vote decidedfirst that there should be juries second that they should be taken in equal numbers in the departments third that they should be named by the convention


the moment these propositions were carried a great uproar was heard from without


this proceeded from a deputation of enrolled vo lunteers who had dined at the corn exchange and who wished to deploy before the conven tion


the doors were opened and six hundred men half drunk and armed with sabres pistols and pikes filed through the assembly amidst loud cries of perish the traitors i yes exclaimed collot dherbois in spite of all their intrigues we shall save you and our liberty


in fact when the convention terminated its sitting for the day the mountain party dis persed themselves throughout the other clubs such as the cordeliers and jacobins proposing to cut the throats of the traitors that night


louvets wife who lived in the street st houoi c amidst the jacobins heard their vo ciferations and entering the club became acquainted with the above proposition


she hastened back to her husband who armed him self and ran from door to door to alarm his friends


he found them all absent


he learned from the servant of one of them that they were at pethions house and proceeding there found them quietly discussing a decree which they hoped to present and carry next day


he informed them of their danger and besought them to adopt some energetic measure


pe thion arose calm and impassable as usual went to the window opened it looked out stretched out his arm and withdrawing it drenched remarked it rains there will be nothing done this night


by this halfopen window penetrated the last of the vibrations of the clock of notre dame whpn it struck ten


such was what passed in paris during the day and night of the ioth of march


long patrols of national guards preceded by torches and bands of the armed citizens of the sections patroled the city


a sleety rain drizzled down to increase the bad temper of these guardians of the night whose meetings at first resembled hostile preparations previous to an engage ment but on recognition and the exchange of the countersigns they resumed their route in silence and sullenness turning repeatedly round as ii they dreaded an attack in the rear


this very evening when paris was a prey to one of those panics so often renewed although then habitual to her and when it was a ques tion whether the lukewarm revolutionists should not be despatched a woman enveloped in a printed calico mantle her head being concealed by the hood stole along the houses of the street st honor concealing herself in some doorway or behind an angle of the walls every i time a patrol passed remaining immoveable as a statue and holding her breath until the guard disappeared when she again resumed her rapid course until arrested by the same recurring obstacle


thanks to the precautions she had taken she had already passed over with impu nity one halfof the stseet


when at the corner of the street grenelle she tumbled all at once into the middle of a small troop of the volun teers who had dined in the corn exchange and whose patriotism was much exalted on ac account of the toans they had drank to their future victories


the poor woman uttered a cry and attempted to escape by the street du coq


ehl what citizen cried the chief of the volunteers for so natural to man is it to be commanded that these volunteers had already appointed their leaders


eh ha where are you going


the fugitive ran on


fire said the chief it is a man dis guisedan aristocrat escaping


the rattling sound of arms fulling into the band announced to the poor woman the fatal movement which was about to be made although sufficiently unsteady in itself to render their aim uncertain


no i no


cried she pausing and returning towards them


no citizen i am not a man you are deceived


advance then at once and give categori cal replies


where are you going charming fair one of the night


i am going nowhere j i am returning home


ah i you are returning yes


it is rather too late for an honest woman to be going home


i came from a relative who was sick poor little pet said the chief making a gesture which alarmed her j and where is your card


my card i what do you mean citizen


why do you demand that


haye you not read the decree of the com mune no


you have heard it proclaimed then no


my god


what says the decree


in the first plaoe we no longer say god but supreme being


pardon me i was deceived it is an old habit


a very bad onean aristocratic one


i shall endeavour citizen to correct it but you suinv i said that the decree of the commune for bids any one to leave their house after ten oclock without their card of citizenship


have you provided yourself with yours


alas i no


you have left it behind you at your relations


i did not know that it was necessnry to provide one


in that case let us enter the first military post


you can explain yourself nicely to the captain and if he is satisfied he will order you to be escorted home by two men if not he will detain you until he receives ample in formation about you


file off to the left quick march


an explanation of terror was emitted hy the prisoner and the chief of the volunteers then understood that the poor woman much dreaded such a measure


oh ho


baid he i was sure we had some distinguished quarry


come along my little minx


the chief seized her arm and placing it under his own he pulled her along in spite of her cries anil tears towards the post of the palais egalit


they had proceeded as far as the barrier des sergents when all at once a young man enveloped in his mantle turned the corner of the street petits champs at the very moment when the prisoner endeavoured by re peated supplications to procure her liberation


the chief without listening to her brutally dragged her on


the woman sereamed partly from pain partly from fright


the young man observed the struggle heard the cry and springing across the street he stood in front of the little troop


whats the matter


what are you going to do with that woman demanded he from him who seemed the lender


instead of questioning me will you mind your own business


who is this woman citizen


and what do you want with her repeated the young


i man in a more imperative tone


and who are you yourself that questions me thus


the young man threw aside his cloak and showed his glittering epaulette


i am an officer as you see


officerin what


in the civic guard well w hat have we to do w ith that replied one of the troop


what do we know of the officers of the civic guard


what does he say aked another in that drawling ironical manner peculiar to the pa risian populace when they are getting angry


he sajs replied the young man that if the epaulette will not cause the officer to be respected the sabre will cause the epaulette to be so


at the same time he stepped back and throwing aside his cloak a broad heavy in fantry sabre hone in the light then with a rapid movement showing his familiarity with hostile encounters he seized the chief of the volunteers by the collar and turned the point of the sahre to his throat


j


now let us converse like a couple of good friends


but citizensaid the chief endeavouring to get away


i warn you that on the least movement made by you or any of these men i shall run you through the body


during this two men still held the woman


i you asked who i was said the young man you have no right to do so for you do not command a regular patrol however i will tell you


i am maurice lindey i commanded a company of artillery on the th of august


i ami lieutenant in the national guard and secreary of the section of friends and bro thers


will that suffice


ah


citizen lieutenant replied the chief still nenaced with the sword whose point he felt prissing closer and closer upon his throat that is quite another affair if you are really what ym say you must be a good patriot


tfere said the officer i knew we should come ti an understanding after a little conver sation


now answer me in turn why did this woman scream and what were you doing with her


j w were conducting her to the guard house


wh


becuse she had not her civic card with her accirding to the last decree of the com mune


oo you forget that the country is in j danger md that the black flag is flying overs the towthall


truk the flog is flying there and the country isin dangerbecause slaves are marchiiigidgainst france but not because aj woman wilks through the streets of paris


but it doa not signify citizens


there is such a decree aid you are right


had you answered me at first


the explanstion would have been less stormr


now you are at liberty to do part


j i oh ctizen exclaimed the woman who had listenel to the debate with profound xiety seiziig at the same time maurices arm do not ibmdon me to the mercy of these rude and drunkei men


j be it si said maurice take my arm and i will escort you to the guardhouse


j why conduct me there since have injured no one they tate you to the guardhousereplied maurice no because you have done wrong or because ttiy fear you may do so but simply because a conmunal decree forbids any one to go abroad without a civic card which you have not in your possession


but i waa ignorant sir


citizen jou will find at the guardhouse honest fellows ho will appreciate your reaons and of whom you need not he afraid


j sir said the young woman pressing the officers arm it is not insult that i fear it is death


im am taken to the guardhouse i ami lost


j the notent of her voice was so remarkable that it penetrated maurices heart like a shock of electrity


he turned toward the volun teers whi were consulting amongst themselves feeling h imiliated that one man should have held ther i in check


they were eight to one three were armed with muskets the others with pistils and pikes maurice had only his sabre


the woman herself comprehended the inequality and she bowed her head on her breast wijh a deep sigh


as for maurice with a look ofdisdain the sabre still in his hand he stood irrjsolute whether to performhis duty as a man and liberate the woman qr that of citizen aid deliver her up


j all at pnce at the corner of the itreet bons enfants the glitter of mubketbariels was ob served and the measured tread of i patrol wab heard approaching


perceiving an assemblage of peoplj they halted at the distance of ten paces anti the corporal demanded


who goes there


j j a fijiend cried maurice


a friend i advance lorin the person to whom this req dressed gave the order to marchi came uplat the head of eight men what


is it you matrice


said the cor


pral


what n rake i


what jre you doirtg here at such an hour


pest was ad and quicklj tnisy observe that i have only just left the slct pends and brothers


veit adjourn to that of the sisters and sweefhe ve understand that very well li


just at the midnight hour i i


the lovers faithful hand opes the ladys bower ii n friend you ai e deceived


i was retufng home when i found this woman strusgiigln tne hands of the volunteers


i ranuian demanded the reason w hy they ar resmlr


ffo


it it is quite like you saidlorin thewtrningr to be volunteers he asked why didmdarrest this woman


ijm have already informed the lieutenant anavcedtne leader of the small troop she hadii me card


pvery pretty crime indeed


jrii are not acquainted then with the deie


rtsmly but there is another which anani ihich


on pindar and parnasse y loves sovereign decree at every hour will pass youthful grace and beauty


a


what do you say to that decree citi zen t is very gallant is it not i f es


but it does not seem to me to be suffi cihti psremptory nor has it figured in the motif newspaper nor are we either in pindr f parnassus finally the citizen may be nilli young graceful nor fair


i bet on the contrary said lorin


let usse


citizen support my opinion show your facenj let us see if you come within the con ditio of the decree


lb sir said the young woman clinging to lurice after having protected me from yournemies save me from your friends i do iraplro you


if ou see that oried the leader of the vo liinttrs


she conceals herself she is in my opium some spy of the aristocracysome of thei night runners


ic sir said the young woman stepping befus maurice and disclosing to his view a couienance smiling with youth and beauty los at me aud say whether i can be what thejiny


aiurice stood confounded and dazzled he had ever seen her equal


the unknown con call lier face again with as rapid a move ments that by which she had exposed it


lorln whispered maurice claim the prister and conduct her to your post


you havithe light as chief of the patrol


uod said the corporal i comprehend hmlivord


then turning towards the un kon he continued come along my fair ope since you will not afford us a proof of youlieing within the compass of the decree you mst follow us


low


follow you said the chief of the vluleers


ertainly we will take her to the town halhhere we mount guard and then we shall inqire more about her xot at all not at all said the leader she isoftand we shall keep her


al citizens citizens i perceive we are goir to quarrel


quarrel or not we dont care about that


wtaro tiue soldiers of the republic and whit you patrol the streets we are about to she our bluod on the frontier


take care you do not shed it before you setmt an event that may befal you if you are noli little more tractable madam said maurice you see what is goig on and you can guess what is about to hapen


in five minutes ten or twelve men ma cut their throats on your account


to be continued


chapter xxviii


kensington


in escaping from the house in the woods in the dull twilight of that au tum evening liddy had met one of the villagers a respectable old man and to him in her wild terror she told the story of the outrage


he pitied her and would have fain had her return to the haltons cottage but the remembrance of her fathers peremptory commands that she should repair to school till she heard from him decided her to go onwards


the old man saw her safe therefore as far as the schoolhouse and then hastened back to the village


here his meeting with liddy was soon told and long before the evening had waned the news had spread wide and fir and reached amongst other places the wheelyvrights cottage


i aint a bit surprised said mrs hal ton distressed though chagrined liddy would have been safe and well enough here if her father had let her stay


but i never saw a man so full of fancies


i suppose he thinks that my john likes the girl which he does thats true though he aint good enough i dare to say for her in normans mind


why she aint unlikely to go further aud


fare worse for one as true as my boy aint to be met with every day


as to those that insulted the child there be little doubt who it was


there is but one man that could insult such a spotless creature like that


ay


nd


its been for that purpose that he came back again


but please god give day again and ill be off to the school and tell margery my mind


these were mrs haltons words to the village gossip who brought the news


when the woman was gone she sat brooding over the fire her thoughts very sad and low to know how her boy would feel this thing when it reached his ear and how in spite of all his love and her own tenderness how little hope there seemed of liddy being ever more than a stranger to him


at a very late hour john returned


he had been kept at the hall he said putting up bedsteads and other things


his mother noticed that he seemed in unusually low spirits though they weic never very bright and cheerful now so as they prepared to go up stairs to their rooms she asked him if he had learnt what had befallen liddy


he said briefly he had and this as he came home and that now he was quite convinced as to the motive which had led to his being detained at the hall


he said no more but he also well knew for what reason mr walter had been dispatched to town


he however said nothing to his mother for he had never broken faith as to what he knew of walter and lidiys secret


in the morning his mother set off to the schoolhouse as soon as she could hut when she arrived there she was re fused admittance on the plea that miss block was engaged and liddy ill


she i essayed again in the afternoon with no success but on her way home she met j the doctor who assured her that the girl was really indisposed though better than in the morning


as to john himself no sooner was


dusk set in than he hastened to the school and loitered about it in the hope of seeing some one to whom he could speak or to be at hand were any attempt made to bear the girl away


he was thus close by when margaret needed him


when the fly arrived at the cottage mrs halton though surprised was very glad and full of her accustomed tender ness


she pressed liddy again and again to her breast and wept when she saw how terror had stricken down the child she was so well when she left me yesterday afternoon she said indeed i never saw her look so lovely


and to think of this and then of that infamous man and more infamous people he employs


well as to that old margery she shall hear my mind before she is many hours older


better say nothing replied margaret for the child will be away in a few hours and for ever beyond the reach of those who have been striving to injure her


so we will put her to bed as rest will be the best medicine


when liddy had sunk into a light sleep margaret went down stairs and talked over this grave business with the haltons


what she saw of these kind and simple people she liked exceedingly


themother thought too much it might be of her son and she set her heart on things for him too high above his grasp still she was very worthy


her son was likewise full of straitforward honesty and good intentions though rough and homely in his way and margaret almost sighed that nature had so constituted normans beautiful child as to make a simple and peaceful life with these people an impossibility


what pleased her like wise as a trait in john halton was his incoruptible fidelity to liddys secret for margaret felt he knew it and did not wish his mother to guess it by his warn ing looks when she was about to explain the cause of her hasty coming at nor mans request


besides this when they talked the circumstances of liddys fright over it was considered by all that norman should be kept in ignorance of it at least for a time as he would be austere enough to cast the blame upon his child and treat her with proportionate harshness


when margaret went up to bed she found liddy awake and much more composed


she wished to refrain from talking but as liddy wanted to know now they were alone what it was that led her father to send her so hurriedly margaret felt necessitated to tell her


this she did as gently as she could but liddys intensest fear was roused


is he angry miss margaret


she asked do tell me


i can never face him if he is


well not so very angry dear as vexed that a little girl like you should have been carrying on a clandestine love affair with a gentleman like mr yerdun


no good can come of such a thing and i quite agree with him


oh please margaret sobbed liddy dont think like father


i cant help loving mr walter nor he me


you do not know how good he is nor how he will have me taught and make a lady of me


o margaret you do not know all this and must not think with father


but i do replied margaret think that a girl of your years should forget all promises of the kind and think of j things more fitting your humble condi tion


i love you very much liddy but i agree with your father that what has been occurring with respect to mr i yerdun is wrong


therefore to break this acquaintance am going with his consent to place you with a friend of mine who will keep a better watch over j you than seems to have been done here


j im sure this is very unkind of you margaret sobbed liddy if you only j knew mr walter you would think so differently


i thought when mother died and when i cried above her grave as i have done many times since that i had still you to tell my troubles to


now i have nobody


yes you have me still dear said margaret very touched and if i thougnt i this gentleman meant well and it would be best for you i would say nothing j against it


but at present i cannot see this and so we will talk no more at j least tonight or you will be too ill for your journey tomorrow


to be continued


the holy mountain of la salette a pilgiumage of the year


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the right rev


bishop tjllatiiorne chapter ix


the secrets


the beautiful lady confided to each of the children a secret and while the secret was confided to one the other heard nothing but only saw the movement of her lips


the secret was given to maxirnin first and then to melanie


after the apparition had disappeared maxinrin said to melanie why she was a long time speaking to you i only saw her lips move but what did she say


to which uelanio replied she told me something but i will not tell you what she has for bidden me


maximin quickly replied oh


i am well satisfied melanie come she told me something also but i will no more tell you than you will tell me


towards the end of march the bishop of grenoble learnt through the cardinal archbishop of lyons that his holiness had intimated some desire to know these secrets


the prelate directed his secretary the abbe auvcrgne and the abbe lloussclot to instruct the children on their obligations should the pope at a later period give them an ordor to confide their secrets to him


the two ecclesiastics chose different times for seeing the chil dren and each saw the one separately from the other


m auvcrgne went to maximin at the petit seminaire and taking him apart he said to him c maxhnin i am come to speak to you on something important you promise me net to repeat what i am going to say


maximin


yes sir q


do you believe that the church has a right to examine and to judge of all re ligious facts apparitions visions c maximin


yes sir q that she may judge of these facts is she nob under an obligation to in form her self of the circumstances which accompany them


can the church be deceived


no sir


q


the pope the yicar of jesus christ can he be deceived


no sir q


if then the pope asks your secret of you you will tell ifcwill yon not


i am not yet before the pope when i am i will see


how will you see


maximiii


according as he speaks to me and i speak to him


if he commands you to tell your secret will you not tell it to him


if he commands me i will tell it


q have you any knowledge at what time you ought to tell it


maximin


when i am made to tell it it will then be known if i ought to have told it earlier or


later because my secrets they re things that ought to be here the boy stopped short


known added his interrogator


maximin added yes


the same day the abbe auvergne went to oorenc to the convent in which melanie was then placed


sle answered the first questions in much the same way as maxi min had dome


at


the fifth question she was asked if the pope asks your secret of you you will tell it to him will you not


she answered timidly i dont know


sir q


how is it you dont know


would the pope be mistaken then and ask you what he ought not to ask


melanie


the blessed virgin forbade me to tell it


q


how do you know that it is the blessed virgin


the church alone can know and say and we must obey the church


if


it was not the blessed virgin she would nob have risen up into the air


the devil may dp that and natural causes may have a like effect


the church alone can distinguish between truth and error


well then let it be declared that it was


not the blessed virgin


q to know the truth the clnrrch has need to know your secret


you will tell it melanie if the pope commands you will you not


i will tell it to him and only to him


in the rest of the interview the abbe auvergne strove in vain to induce her to tell her secret to some bishop archbishop or prince of the church


melanie re mained inflexible and troubled


she ceased to give any other answer than the words i do not know words which she repeated some twenty times


she re tired in sadness and cried all the time of vespers at which she had soon after to assist


m auvergne sent for her a second time q


well melanie he


aid you have re flected you will tell your secret if the pope commands you


melanie


i do not know sir q


what


will you disobey


the pope


the blessed virgin has for bidden me to tell it


q


the blessed virgin would have us obey the pope


it is not the pope who asks the secret other persons have told him to ask me for it


after several other fruitless attempts melanie retired in great perplexity of con science


on the gth march the abbu pvousselot repaired to the convent of sisters of providence at corenc


the superioress re marked to him that she knew for what he had come


and how do you know asked the abb


since her interview with the abbe auverguo replied the superioress me lanic has been in great distress


the com panion of her chamber heard her speak in dreams repeatedly they want my secret


t must tell ray secret to the pope or be severed from the church


this was her own conclusion for the abbe auvergne had said nothing about separation from the church or about excommunica tion


more than forty times continued the superioress she repeated the words separated from the church


are you satisfied with melanie asked the abbe


yes replied the superioress we are all well satisfied with her


she is the edifi cation of all her companions and even of the community


she breathes but for the moment to take the habit


but her intention is to go to a missionary country that she may consecrate herself to the instruction of little pagan girls


the abbe then saw melanie and said to her my child since sunday you have doubtless been in trouble you are uncer tain whether by revealing your secret to the pope you will displease the blessed virgin who has forbidden you to tell it


well i have come to eulighren you and to free you from your perplexity


know then my child that we do not displease the blessed virgin by obeying the church to which we must submit all revelations all apparitions and all visions


thus have the saints done it is jesus christ who estab lished the pope his vicar on earth the blessed virgin knows this well


she is not dissatisfied when we obey him who is the representative ol her son on earth she will only be so if we disobey him


thus then melanie if the pope asks you for your secret will you tell ib to him


melavie


yes sir q will you tell him willingly


melanie


yes sir q


and will you tell it to him without fear of offending the blessed virgin


if then the pope commands you to tell your secret to any one whom he ap pointe to receive it and to convey it to him will you tell it to that person whom he appoints to come to you for it


no sir i will tell it to the pope only and when he commands it


q


and if the pope gives this command how will you manage that your secret may reach him


i will tell it to himself or


i will write it in a sealed letter


i


and to whom will you give this sealed letter that it may reach


the pope melavie


to the bishop


q will you entrust it to no one else


i will give it to the bishop or to you


will you not give it to the chaplain of the convent


melavie


no sir q


will you


not let it go to the pope through the cardinal archbishop of lyons


nor


through any othoi bishop or priest


melanie


and why


because at lyons they do not believe much in la salotte and there i do not want them to unseal my letter


q


but when the pope knows your secret will it distress you if he publishes it


no sir that concerns him it will be his affair


here jmanie bent down her head and with a smile stie asked but if this secret regar ds h im self


tn this case replied the abbe the pope will tell it or not as he sees fit


thus then my child you arc fully resolved to tell your secret to the pope


mchmif


yes sir if he commands it but if he leaves me free i will not tell it


tim abbe piousselot next went to the petit reminai re


he asked the superiors if they wore well satisfied with maximin


we are well satisfied with him replied the superior only he is backward in his class because he has not studied the rudi ments but hfi will succeed for he has memory and intelligence


and as to his conduct was the next question


he is light replied the superior and a little heedless


but i believe he has a good foundation of faith which he shows especi ally in the church and when he goes to the sacraments


the abbe then saw maximin apart and found him in the same dispositions which he had manifested to the abbe auvergne


in conclusion he re proached him with the levity of his conduct and told him that if he went on so he would give occasion for people to think that he had not really seen the blessed virgin and the fact of la palette would fall to the ground


hpon which maximin under standing the abbe to allude to certain recent events which had occurred at ars repeated a remark that he had made three weeks before to one of the canons


la salcttc he said is new like a flower that in winter they cover toiih dirt and dung hut winch in the summer springs up the more beautiful the tempest which arose against la salette by reason of the affair at ars had the effect of bringing the command vhieh required the children to reveal their secrets to our holy father the pope


and it was through the intermediation of the cardinal archbishop of lynns that this formal de mand was first intimated


seeing that the children were su determined not to deliver their secret open as the cardinal had in timated a wish they should and that they were as firmly resolved to give it to no one but the pope the bishop of grenoble ap pointed certain witnesses respectable lay men as well as clergymen to be present whilst tviaximin and melauio wrote each their secrets


they were introduced into the same room and were seated at separate tables


maximin put his head into his hands in an attitude of reflection and then wrote his letter rapidly so rapidly that his writing was suspected to be too bad and illegible to go before the holy father and he was requested to write his letter over again and more carefully


so far only is positively known of it that it is written in seven paragraphs each of which is num bered and that it begins with these words most bohj father on the lth of sep tember a lady appeared to vie


they say it is the blessed virgin you will judge whether it teas by what fallows


whilst avriting maximin asked how the word pon lijfwsis spelled


i is said that melanie betrayed much emotion while she wrote her letter but was in no way embarrassed and wrote rapidly


it will be recollected that whilst maximin


received his secret in french she


received hers in her native patois


she suddenly stopped and asked the meaning of the word infallibility


after it had been explained she said ah i did riot know it


she also asked the orfclif


graphy and meaning of the word anti christ


the secret of melanie is of con siderably greater length than that of maxi min


they each sealed their letters them selves in the presence of witnesses and they were then sealed with the seal of the bishop of grenoble


but soon after melanie re collected that she had put two events to gether without specifying that the one had a separate date from the other and she hastened to the episcopal palace to make the correction


she refused ho woyei


to tell any one what that date avas for she remarked it was part of the secret in september of the same year


her inti mate friend wile


brulais had the following conversation with melanie in an interview at corenc


q


my dear friend are you tranquil in tyur mind since you have given up your secret


melanie


yes i am very tranquil


q do you not regret the giving


up of this secret which the blessed virgin forbade you to tell


melanic


no i do not regret having told it to the pope


but i shall be asked how you could have revealed your secret to the pope after having heretofore said that the blessed virgin forbade you to tell it to any person since the pope is a person


i did not then know what the pope was what rights be had in the chuich and that we are bound to obey him q i suppose my dear melanie that the bishop of nantes when he hears of what i shall have to tell him will ask me if you bad seen the blessed virgin once more be fore you determined to reveal your secret to the pope


what shall i answer his lord ship


here melanie was silent she cast down her eyes and a remarkable smile came over her features


the assistant superioress who was present came to her aid and said


my dear friend give an answer to


mademoiselle which she can repeat to the bishop of nantes who perhaps would wish to know the truth


tell us if the blessed virgin arjoeared to you anew to determine you to reveal your secret


there was the same silence and the same expression of modesty and piety


q


will you at least tell me my good melauie if yon knew that you could reveal your secret


to the pope when you made that revelation


mdanie


yes madam i knew wh en th e present writer unaware at the time that the question had been put before atked melanie if she had ever seen the blessed virgin siuoe the apparition she answered cannot tell that to you


at the same time she very strongly compressed her lips


maximin after giving his secret felt re lieved


ha


now


he said in atone of selfcongratulation i am freed


from trouble


i have no longer a secret i am likj other people


they need no longer come and ask me anything


they can so and put questions to the pope he will tell it if he thinks well


at a later period he was asked how he could have told his secret to the pope when he had so often declared that he could tell it to no person


to this he replied


did not then know the powers of the pope nor that he is not like another person


but i now see that as the pope asks the question i ought to tell it


from the bits of information that have fallen as well as from the observations made on the general conduct of the children with reference to their secrets it is generally at


this day understood that in the words of m gerin written after he had conveyed those secrets to rome maximins secret an nounces mercy and rehabilitation of things whilst melanies announces great chastise ments


this explains much of what is ob served in the general bearing of the two young people


maximins free and disen


gaged air and melanies more sad and penetential spirit


when melanie entered religion she wished to be called the victim of jesus


but as it was represented to her that the sacred name of victim belonged to certain religious of severe enclosed orders and could not be given to her she took the name of mary of the cross


when she once saw a representation of our lords sufferings it reminded her in a distressing way of her secret


the bishop of grenoble deputed i rousselot one of his vicarsgeneral and m gerin the cure of his cathedral to convey the secrets to borne


both these ecclesi astics have written letters describing the circumstances of their embassy


when they were presented to his holiness he took the sealed letters from their hands opened them and began to read that of maximin


here he observed is all the candour and simplicity of a child


then that he might read the letters more easily his holiness went up to a window and vptiutiu lilt


suuttui


am i obliged he remarked to keep these things secret


holy father replied m gerin you can do everything you have the keys of all things


as he read the letter of melanie his lips became strongly compressed and his face seemed moved with considerable emo tion


these are scourges he said with tohicji france is threatened but she is not alone culpable


germany italy all europe is cidpahle and merits chastisement


i have less to fear from open impiety than from indifference and human respect


it is not without reason that the chiirch is called militant and here pointing to his breast you hehold its captain


i must read these letters said his holiness more at leisure


on the following day they had an audience withcardinalfornari at which his eminence said to the two envoys i am terrified with these prodigies we have everything that is needed in otir reli gion for the conversion of sinners and whew heaven employs such means the evil must be very great


cardinal lambruschini also remarked to them i have long known the fact of la sa lette and as a bishop i believe it and as a bishop i have preached it in my diocese and i have observed that my discourse produced a great impression


be sides added his eminence i know the secret of the children


the pope has com municated it to me


on their return his holiness sent a beau tiful present to the bishop of grenoble and his blessing to the two children


and intimation was conveyed that the bishop might do as he judged best as to la pa lette after his return from rome m germ said to melanie i know not what you have written to the pope but he appeared much affected by it on which so remark able a smile arose on her lips that it struck all who beheld it


it scarcely seems to have been flattering continued m gerin


flattering


she exclaimed


yes flattering do you know what that word means rejoined m gerin


ah yes she replied know it means to give pleasure but it ought to iiive pleasure to a pope


a pope ought to love to suffer


it is melanies impression that when the apparition disappeared the last looks of the blessed virgin were mournfully cast to wards rome


the king of prussia recently obtained a com plete collection of all the publicatious concerning the mormons in the united states and england


the mormons considered this measure as likely to be favourable to the propogation of their reli gion in prussia and in consequence they deter mined on sending to berlin a deputations to compliment his majesty


the deputation arrived a few days ago by the railway from stettin but no sooner had the persons composing it quitted the carriages tban a detachment of soldiers who were waiting at the station marched them off to the director of policce


that functionary subjected them to a lengthened interrogatory after which they received orders to leave belin in twentyfour hours


the next morning they left the capital


maurice chesterfield


y a tale op


the quarter deck


chapter iv


shared each others gladness and wept each others tears


one evening maurice and mr beaumont were seated together in an arbour in the garden at the back of the latters house and conversing together


i tell you what itis maurice said beaumont it is co use disguising it there is some mystery about you and you may as well tell it to me


why i think if what people say is true i may return the same observation


beaumont looked very black at


this and said my mystery if it is a mystery is indeed a very sorrowful one but is yours so too mors so than yours can be


then well disclose to each other our se erets and you shall begin


maurice then for the second time made a confidant of his secret but this time it was not received as macscully received it


beaumont looked at him with pity not unmixed with displeasure when lie learnt that his desire to repay the debt arose from the burthen of an obligatisntoa msothat be hated and mot from a ncble feeling of reconciliation


he pointed out to him that caymau had done no more than bis duty in punishing him and charley and that the latter falling overboard was no fault of the first lieutenants


he remarked for a long time too long to be pleasantto maurice on the extreme cowardice of shooting at him in the dark and most willingly believed that he must have been nearly mad to have stooped to so low so coldblooded a revenge


he urged maurice when he sent met withoayrtian to do his utmost towards pi reconciliation and to repay him the debt with gratitude for his kindness and not from a haughty desire to be free from obligation


these remarks might have made some effect os maurice but we are afraid they did not


beaumont next told him his own story which was as brief as it was sad


be had been a widower and had ah only child a little son which one day mysteriously disappeared it had preyed on itis mind for a long time and now he had hardly recovered it but somehow he had a conviction that charles beaumont was yet alie and he felt great anx iety as to the life


he was leading


maurices thoughts reverted tolittle charley morris but he thought it would indeed be useless to arouse the poor mans feelings without any possibility


of satisfying them


gentle reader mr fotanpan had grown quite old among his pots and pans


he was now quite gteyheaded


he had for some time past left the management of his busines entirely in maurices hands and it was evident he was fast going to a land where neither saucepans nor gridirons are required


under such circumstances maurice who had long been at tlie head of the establishment felt anxious to do his best now that all the responsibility of the business fell on him


he was at one time disgusted with the life and was almost giving it up but upon thinking on his determination he persevered and now he felt that it was his duty to give it his utmost attention


one day he was reading the jamacia flareup and leaning on the counter when he came to this passage the frigate ariel clencby is also expected here shortly with despatches


the d she is said maurice aloud theyll want a whole heap of saucepans and things he soliloquised


i perfectly remember what a fellow that black cook was to throw them overboard when near land that he might have new ones and get a commission on them


and then i cant leave the shop for poor potanpan is very ill today and before long will be worseob lord


the very idea of the black cook buying saucepans of him quite unnerved poor maurice and he made up his mind hed run away sooner


just then beaumont came in and he asked his advice


why my dear fellow if im in the shop at the time ill say i know you and have known you from a child and that you were never on board a manofwar in your life and theyll only think you atkyastonishing likeness


all you have to do is to persist in it and if he will have it that your dames chesterfield why call him an impudent fellow


this was far from satisfactory to poor maurice but he saw it was all he could do in the case


but however he was not doomed to pass through the ordeal he so much dreaded


one morning mr beaumont was at liis breakfast when the shopboy from the hardware mart arrived with a note from maurice acquainting mr beaumont that mr potanpan had died in the night and requesting his advice and assistance


he immediately set out arrived and maurice and he had a long consultation


potanpan had no relation in jamacia and on opening the will he had left all his little property to maurice


the next jamacia flareup had an advertisement touching all debts due to and by peter potanpan hardware merchant jinkinsstreet jamacia and the vessel bound for london direct the sea devil crowther master had a passage taken in her for mr edward maurice


previous however to mb departure he wrote a long letter to beaumont telling him the whole history of charley morris who he said he could see and inquire about when the ariel arrived


this letter he sent on shore the last thing as the sea devil sailed


the wind was adverse and they were tacking and so getting slowly out to sea when a beautiful frigate hove in sight coming into the port


aehe rapnhyireared suspicions that it was no other than the expected vessel in which maurice once had been senior midshipman were confirmed and he was just going below as she was about to pass them when captain crowther began t converse with him about the frigate and he felt that it would be queer to go below when every one seemed so interested in the noble vessel as she bounded on


there was one figure on the quarterdeck besides the man at the wheel and maurice immediately saw that it was neither clencfcy nor the first lieutenant


as she passed


them in the same beautiful way he recognised the yoong officer as a lieutenant but though much taller than when he knew him there was no doubt of the identity of little charley morris


it was not till after they had spoke each other that he saw the recognition was mutual for the lieutenant waved his hand to him and he could see the mixture of surprise and delight on his face as he shouted good bye maurice


chesterfield returned his salute and then descended his cabin in great distress


here was little charley morris had been rising in the service and promoted to a lieutenant while he had been an outcast keeping a shop


the sea devil made a long passage and maurice was getting lowspirited and discontented when she reached home


all danger of any interference cn account of the little affair on board the ariel was now out of the question and maurice immediately he lande reass umed liis own name


he had some difficulty in finding lieutenant caymans resdence but after many fruitless inquiries he put a letter in the post addressed to his sister and next day received one with their address and informing him that alfred had been long unheard of the last news of him being what the ariel brought previous to their sailing to jamaica viz that he had been taken prisoner and that if be were alive now he would be in some french prison


the next day maurice called on miss cayman and found her in great distress and poverty


he was glad to find be could be of use for immediately he heard the news of his former friends disappearance all malevolence vanished in a moment


he merely stated that he owed lieutenant alfred cayman so much money principal and interest and discharged it without asking for a receipt


miss cayman was surprised at such unexpected relief and he took his leave with a lighter heart than be had ever felt since he left the ariel


he had now fulfilled the resolution he had made on board her when under confinement but in how much nobler a spirit had he fulfilled it than he had anticipated doing


he bad determined to repay it to free himself from a debt a heavy debt of obligation to a man he hated but he had now the ten timesgreater delight of rendering a service to thesister of the man he no longer hated but loved


yes


all his friendship all his love for alfred had returned when he heard he was a prisoner and he wanted but an interview with him to ask his forgivenessnot for the act of violence itself but for the years of bitter enmity and evil thoughts against him which had followed


the sum of money he had payed was twice as much ashe had borrowed of cayman but even this chesterfield looked upon as nothing and he felt he could never be at rest till he was againthe friend of alfred


to be continued


marie antoinette


or the chevalier of the red house


continuedfrom our last


chapter xxxvii


the patriot theodore went out but he did not lea e the neighbourhood of the house


he watched the turnkeys motions through the dim panes of glass lest he might enter into communication with some of tho republican agents of police


that police wasthe best organised force that has over


existed because one half of society under the re public wero spies upon the other half


these soies however did not acton account of tho res pect and honour they bore the republic so much as to secure their own heads on their shoulders


the patriots fears were however never realised


a little before nine the turnkey arose chucked the ostess under he chin and lett the house


the patriot rejoined him on the qiiai do la coricierl gerie and both entered the prison together


father richard decided that sumu ovomng to aooopt the turnkey mardoohe as gracchuss sub stitute


two hours previous to the settlement of this important affair another scene was being enacted in a different part of the same prison which although without apparont interest posses sed an equal importance as fur as regards tho principal characters of this history


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the head clerk of the prison tired out with his days labour was about to fold up his registers and depart when a man conducted by citizen richard presenting himself at his desk citizen clerk said the latter here is your colleague in the office of the minister at war who has been sent by the citizen minister to extract i certain military entries


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ah i citizen said the clerk you como too latei have packed up my baggage


dear colleague you will pardon me answered the new comer we haye so much to do that our duty can only be performed by snatching it irom our hours of reposeby toiling whilst others aro eating or sleeping if it is so do your duty my dear colleague but make haste for as you say it is supper time and i am hungry


have you brought with you your authority to aot


there it is said the ministers clerk showing a porfolio which his companion although in haste examined with the most scrupulous attention


oh i that is all right said citizen richard for have already inspected it


no matter said the clerk continuing his examination


the clerk of tho war office patiently awaited the result hko a man who expected the stiictest formality


all right said the clerk of the prison you may begin when you like


have you many ex tracts to make


a hundred at least


then you have several days work before you residesdear colleague lum aboutto establish hero a sort of small establishment if you will per mit it


what am i to understand by that


asked the clerk of the prison


i will explain that to you when conducting you to supper with me tonight


you said you were hungry


and i do not retract the observation


well you will see my wife who is an excel lent cook and yon will become acquainted with me whom you will find to be a very good sort of fellow


my faith yes you seem so but my dear col league


i oh


accept the invitation without ceremony


i shall purchase somo oysters in the square du chatelot a fowl at our poulterers and two or three other little dishes that is vory seductive m dear colleague said the clerk dazzled by this preparation to which a clerk in his position was not accustomed especially when his republican salary was con sidered


so you accept the invitation


with pleasure


in that case i n ill defer my work until to morrow


let ns finish for this evening


let us go


come along then said the military clerk


wait a moment


just allow me to inform the guards who are on duty beside the austiian that i am going


why announce it to them that they may know i have gone oui


so tht being aware that no one is here every noiso will be suspected


ah very good


my faith it is an excellent precaution


you understand that dont you


perfectly como along


the clerk of the conciergerie in fact knocked at the door which the gendarmes opened saying who is there


methe clerk


you know i am going


good evening gilbert


good evening citizen clerk and the door was then closed


the clerk examined every proceeding with the utmost attontion and when the door of the queens prison remained for a mement opened he glanced rapidly to the very bottom of the first compartment


he saw the gendarme duchesne seated at table and felt consequently assured that the queen had only two attendants to guard her


as the two clerks left the conciergerie two other men were about to enter


these two were the citizen gracchus and his cousin mardoche


the latter as well as the military clerk as if influenced by a similar idea on seeing each other pulled the one his bonnet and the other his broad brimmed hat over his eyes


who are these men asked the military clerk


i only know ono of them


he is the turnkey gracchus


ah i said the other with affected indifference so turnkeys do leave the prison


they have their day sir


the investigation was urged no further


the two new friends walked to poritan change


at the corner of the square du chlltelt the military clerk according to the programme announced purchased twelve dozen oysters


they then proceeded along the quai de grve


the dwelling of the military clerk was ex ceedingly simple


citizen durand inhabited three little rooms on the square do grove in a house which had no porter at the chief entrance eauh inhabitaht possessed a key and it was agreed that wbbn any one was out without it so many knocks should bo given as might correspond with the landing thoy inhabited


the citizen durand had his key in his pocket he therefore did not require to knock


having ascended two pair of stairs durand pulled out a second key and entered the apartments


the clerk of the conciergerie found his friends wife very much to his taste


in fact she was u charming woman hose countenance was height ened and rendered deeply interesting in conse quence of an expression of profound sadness


it may be remarked that an expression of sad ness gives immense attractive power to pretty women


sadness without exception makes all men amorous even clerks


the two ftiends cupped with great gusto


madame durand formed a great exception as fur as appetite was concerned


many questions were exchanged between the clei ks


the military clerk asked his colleague with a curiosity rather remarkable in those dramatic days what were the customs in the palace the days of trial and means employed to guard it


the clerkenchanted with the attention he ex cited answered with kindness and spoke of the manners of the gaolers of those of fouquier tinville and finally of citizen samson the prin cipal actor in those tragedies which were every day exhibited on the place de la revolution


then turning to his host ho asked several questions concerning his duties c ob said durand i am not so fully in structed as you are being a personage of much less importanco seeing that am merely secretary to one of the chief clerks


mine is an obscure office but i perform all the duties to the great be ithe profit to the small be the labpur


it is the rule in all departments even republican


heaven and earthtmay ono day change but these things will never alter


well will assist you in your duties citizen said thechief clerk of the conciergerie charmed with he excellent wine andabove all with the fair eyes of madamo durand


ohl thank you said the latter all change of customs persons oi localities are however in convenient to a poor clerk like


meand


i am more i anxious to see my labour in the conciergerie ended than to have it extended bybecoming con fused


however each evening i may i presume bring with mo madame durand iwho is very lonely here


i can see no inconvenience in that said the clerk enchanted with the agreeable distraction promised him


she will extract the scrollsand dictate to me continueddurand besidesfrom time to time after our duties are over if you have not found this nights supper too bad you can come and part alto of a similar one


yosyes but not too often notoobfteh said the clerk thoughtfully fbvtasurybu shall be scolded if i return home laterthttnuiul to the street petitmuse


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well well all shall bo arranged said durand


is it not soi my dear


madamo durand always very pale and sad raised her eyes upon her husband and answered be it as you wish


eleven oclock struck


it was time to retire


the clerk of the conciergerie arose and took leave of his new friends expressing to them the pleasure which he felt in making an acquaintance with thom and their supper


the citizen durand reconduoted his guest to the staircase then returning to his chamber he said come genevive go to bed


tho young woman without making any reply took up a lamp and entered a chamber on the right durand or rattier dxmer watched hor re tiring remained pensive a moment and then hi brow was saddenod


he in turn retired to his i chamber which lay on the loft opposite to that of i genevive


i to be continued


chapter vt


i it is now many months since accounts were j first circulated about sydney of a certain gal


lant officer settled in south australia who having discovered copper and kept his know ledge to himself purchased at the upset price of a pound an acre the section containing the hidden treasure and then forthwith practically published himself to the world as the owner in fee of a princely propert netting a year thus acquired with his knowingly invested eighty pounds


this was so like the brilliant modes of realizing competencies prevailing in the arabian nights entertainmentsso similar to the style of business of the eastern gentle man who acquired all his ready cut and polished brilliants of the first water by throwing into the inaccessible diamond valley those rounds of beef which the birds brought up again to the gentleman with the diamonds sticking theretothat it was no wonder south austra lian imaginations were touched


the province had but lately before this copper discovery been struggling under a depression and dis tress as general and severe as that which af flicted new south wales in the gloomy years of and


there were perhaps very few south australian settlers or traders who were then safe and solventmany were seeking re lief of the insolvent lawand therefore the first discovery that they had actually been filing and were still filing their schedules with unbounded treasures lying in lodes beneath their feet waiting only to be dug for was na turally an exciting one


like the poor and starving painter in the story who daydreamed himself into forgetfulness of bis real poverty by lying in bed and contemplating pictures of the brazilian gold mines suspended on his garret wallsthe south australian in almost an equal degree surrendered themselves to the pleasures of imagination


solitary and excited gentlemen with hammers and bags might have been seen and heard it is said disturbing the deep silence of south australian mountains and valleys as like lunatic roadmakers they hammered their anxious way over the face of the country for indications


in a very short time as might naturally be expected many new and unquestionably good bits of metalli ferous land were discovered and then the mining mania fairly commenced


we shall certainly not soon forget the surprise we felt some months ago when we first saw a south australian gentleman at a dinner party in sydney pull out of his pockets and produce to the company what to our uninstructed mind seemed to be a considerable portion of some macadamized road until the colour satisfied us that tiey wera no vulgar stones the gentleman was carrying about his person with a patience exceeding that of parlors


ignorant thal we weve


thtso mineral lum


vero iris groy ore his blue carbonate lils malachite


how would


he nave despised us could he have guassed our ignorance


j a region in which the copper indications were among the richest was one which now constitutes the valuable properties of the south australian mining company commonly called the burra burra and the princess royal mining company


by the australian lands actour readers are awarethe purchaser j of a special survey of acres is entitled i to buy that quantity of the government at the


upset price of an acre without competition j and therefore these invaluable acres j in consequence of the considerable masses of i copper ore which had been discovered at the j northern extremity of the landwere put up i by the people of adelaide as a special survey j it appears however that the towns people j were rather short to employ the usual ex pression and a great effort was required to be made


no one nor two nor six nor a dozen persons could at the time muster to


pay for this special survey and the south aus j tralians trembled as they thought of the prize now dangling almost within their grasp even tually falling into the hands of some of the rich sydney folk who might be informed of its value and secure it


what could not be done by one or by a few must be done by many and therefore a grand combination of gentie and simple or to use the adelaide terms of the nobs and the snobs made imperatively necessary by the urgency of the case was formed for the purpose of satisfying the inexorable government whose only terms were cash before delivery of the deed of conveyance


the land was put upthe land was bought the deposit was paid


the residue must be lodged in the public treasury within a month


there were cautious colonists to be got over who albeit conscious of a taste for copper still shrunk from becoming men of metal in joinl stock companies and under joint liabilities


some were lukewarm about forming a company others were decidedly averse from it


mean time the little month was running on and was drawing to a close but still the was not collected


at length the very day arrive on which by a certain hour the money was tc be paid and still excited and half frantic men were flying about the streets of adelaide witu cash boxes clearing out the citizens for thc mighty effort and at last it is said only a few minutes before the expiration of the time withii which the money was to be paid the whole sum was made up and lodged in the treasury


anc thus the most valuable copper district in th known world was secured to the people of th colony within which the property lay


here after south australian historians will sup pose record the mighty achievement in terms of solemnity befitting the occasion


even mj informant grew animated like a man describing a battle as he approached the crisis of the easl boxes and seemed to fight the battle oei again as he in imagination triumphantly paid in a second time that allimportani to the treasury


the union however which had been abso lutely necessary at first was one which coul not last much longer than the pressing exigency which had called it into existence


element naturally antagonistic could only be made t mix by the application of extreme force am like oil and water which has been shaken int temporary union the nobs and snobs began t draw away from each other almost from th time of the purchase


they soon came to difference of opinions and wishes and like sen sible men conscious that the shortest way wa the best they agreed to separate and amicabl settle their disputes by equitably dividing th property between them by lot


fortune fa vowed the snobsadditional proof of he blindness no doubt in the eyes of the affiictei nobsby awarding to them the northern em of the surveythe acres which now be long to the south australian mining company and one portion of which is the celebrate


burra burra mine spoken of by cornish cap tains of mines as one of the wonders of th world


the nobs were thus left in possession of the southern end of the propertyand although on account of the great dearness of mining labour it has not yet been effectively worked it is ge nerally supposed by competent judges from the rich indications cropping out along the whole of the survey to be not less valuable than the northern half


the direction of the principal lode as shown by the working of the burra burra has a course of north by about west


in the first year of the working of the burra burra mine so energetically did its proprietors go to work in tearing open the bowels of the earth tons of copper ore were extracted and as the quantity increased and the quality steadily improved as they got deeper the shares originally each rose rapidly in price and a few months ago touched


they have since declined to and by the last advices were selling at for cash and on credit for and the seller holding the scrip until the payment of the money


accounts sales have already been received in the colony of the first shipments of the burra burra ores which have realised at swansea from s to s per ton


as these earlier shipments however were nearly all surface ores sent home without being cleaned classified or prepared in any way for exportation the above return was higher than was expected among experienced miners


much of the latter ore raised many tons ot which lay on the wharf for shipment both


when i ar rived and when i departed besides an entire shipload just ready to leave for swansea was about the richest which had yet been brought down from the mine


red oxides grey ore blue and green carbonates and malachite lay at the port in immense heaps of many tons each specimens of which i brought away with me to sydney


nothing but the great distance of the burra burra mine from adelaide miles and the failure of my attempts to enlist a companion for what without one is a very long tedious and by reason of the flatness of the country an uninteresting journey prevented me from visit ing this remarkable spot which upon the unanimous testimony of all who had seen it is a perfect marvel in its way


it seems that about two miles of galleries are already con structed in the excavations of the mine and that in every direction large numbers of opera tive miners are daily engaged therein quarry ing to use their own word rather than mining away the walis of the lodes so extensively and abundantly are the ores distributed in every direction


hundreds of labourers drays and bullocks are employed in connexion with the works and already a considerable village has sprung up in the immediate neighbourhood of the mine besides an inn which it is said a burra burra director has lately started at his own venture and therefore as miners are a thirsty class of people a magistrate with all the et caeteras of coercive discipline will soon as i was informed by a gentleman lately re turned from the mine be required to keep this new community in peace and order


the road from the mine to the port is almost a dead level so that the cost of the carriage of thc ores for that distance does not exceed a ton


the number of bullocks killed however at this distressing work is still very great and it is said that if the country were generally mountainous a common mine by reason of thc cost of transit of the ores would scarcely bs profitable at all with this conclusion my own limited observations made on a visit to the i adelaide and glen osmond minescompelled rae to concur


sydney morning herald j


the adventures of tom newberry


from the sydney revels by c a corbyn


chapter i


one day i had quitted a fine vessel bound for sydney my application having been refused when a noble looking sailorlike personage who was hastening on board took particular notice of me


i in turn had a faint remembrance of his features


at length he addressed me and upon my mentioning my name and parentage he at once made himself known to me


he had been a young officer in the sherbourne


when a little boy i sailed in that vessel from calcutta to england


he was commander of the vessel which i had just quitted and he welcomed me on board


after a fine and agreeable voyage i arrived here in sydney and when my friend the captain once more set sail for england he provided me with means to support myself as he said for my services as clerk in helping to keep his journal so that neither he nor i doubted that ere i had run through the money i should be in the road to fortune


my heart panted and my eyes watered with unfeigned gratitude when i bade farewell to the captain and to my other shipmates and the pretty vessel set sail down tho harbour of port jackson


the first thing requisite on my landing in sydney was to procure suitable lodgings until i should either proceed to the gold diggings or procure employment and for information on this point i appealed to the waterman who was sculling me in his wherry from the vessel to the strand


he was a hardy wiry old fellow with a deep mahogany complexion and a face seamed like a sailors biscuit and i found him wonder fully communicative so much so that he told me all he knew and a little over


if its lodgings you want im thc chap as can plant you upon outandouters said hawl well for such i understood from the letters in the boat was his name


dont go by no means to put up at a lush crib for them landlords and landladysll think youre a robbing on em cept yer allers as drunk as a fiddler


and dont go to none on em ere half spectable cribs vere em calls it board and residence thems the worsest places for prog in the town


but ill take yer to a firstrate place in kentstreet altho its nothing much to look at its a rattling place for grub and bub


its keep by an old ooman named ocallagan wot keeps cows and pigs goats chickens and other domestic reptiles


ill take yer and introduce you to the old ooman yerl find her rough and ready


but tell me said i which is the best gold field for me to go to or respectable situations are plentiful in sydney


why as to that replied hawlwell the turons done at least for all but the knowing ones and as to tambiroory i cant recommend it


then the other diggings on this side are pretty well hockipied and youre too bran new a chum to do much good at em


as for ballyrat and them other places on tother side yer very likely never to be herd on no morr if yer goes to them


fact hevery things dull jist now at the diggings everywhere at one theyve got too much water and at another too little tho these ere our correspondents keeps the pot boiling a writing long twisters to the papers which ood make a johnny raw spect that the roads were lined with gold such articles about good hindikations here and quartsose there but them fellers writes by the line


now as for siti vations theres plenty in sydney thats to say spose you can cook a dinner or vait at table or drive an oss or if yer likes hunger and ease theyll give yer five bob a day to crack stones for the corporation


but i takes it that you couldnt cook a doughboy nor do nothing menial but youre a sort of a swell cove wot ud do for colonial sekerterry or guvner general or torneys clerk or such like games and a lucky feller yerl be if yer ketches any on them


ere bil lets


theres more swells out of luck than jews and they be plentiful in sydney


von thing ill put yer fly to yerl not do no good without plenty brass or check or whatever yer likes to calt it


allers speak up well for yerself and youll stand a chance in sydney


but here us is at the cirkeeler wharf


do yer know vy they calls it the cirkeeler wharf


vy cos its nearly straight


come my lad ill pilot yer to mother callagans and ven yer gets a good billet come and let us know


and ill put yer fly to summat for i knows a little i assure yer


and vy shouldnt i ven


ive been knocked about in this colony since i wos a kid and as had been knocked about and no gammon


with my little bundle under my arm i ac companied the good natured waterman who took me to what he culled a circumbendibus to shew me the principal streets


the magnificent gold and jewel shops in georgestreet astonished me as no doubt they do all new comers and impressed me with an idea of the solid nature of the wealth that a country of which this was the metropolis contained


my guide next led me through the principal portion of pittstreet with its splendid display of silks satins and drapery of every description with the numerous young shopmen habited as the articles in their shops were ticketed in the first style of fashion


the streets presented at that time of evening by gaslight a very gay and animated appearance and i contrasted the equality on the score of good clothing and spirited appearance of all the people who passed me in the streets with the marked distinction between the very poor and the very rich to be met at every step in london


my guide took me down parkstreet into a dark gloomy looking street which he called druittstreet where our attention was soon at tracted to a severe struggle which was going on between two men to the infinite delight of a large mob of children who cheered them on with cries of give it him dont be grabbed paddy hit him where yer father stuck the pig and many similar jokes


we discovered that one of the combatants was a policeman who was vainly attempting to take his adversary to the neighbouring station house


as soon as we came near the policeman by a desperate effort released himself from the grasp of the man and called on us in the queens name for aid


at this moment an inspector of police arrived


who the divil ore you


in quired the inspector of the battered policeman whose hat was flattened the tails torn off his coat and himself plastered with mud from top to toe


my names denny hogan replied the novice and its taking dish rashkil sure enough i was


wats the charge asked the inspector


salt with hintent replied the sub to do may sum gravious bothilly arm


its a walken i was anent that bagabones house when over comes a thumping big sthone and hits me on the hat and mashiates it


ha


ha says i sure


and ill have yer presently


over comes another mortial big baste of a sthone and skelps me on the head itself


i sees dish villin by the fence and seizes him by the scruff of the neck


was it you dat flung the shtone says hi troth it was not says he


come hout of dat


says hi how can hi cum hout hon hit ven im not into hit


says he


disperse


says hi how can one man disperse


so vid dat i scul drags him to get him in the watchhouse and he sculdrags me to get away


well


and so youve been fighting the man for that


replied the inspector while some thavish divils have cracked old simpkins jist round the corner and sacked two hundred and fifty pounds besides jewellery


of all the un interesting double distilled contaminated demd obnoxious specimens of superlative humbug dat ever came from the bogs to wield the shillelagh in sydney youre the double milled infinitive as sure as my names jerry higgins


get away yer big baste denny hogan and go on yer bate


leaving jerry higgins and his sub we turned the corner into kentstreet and were in a few minutes at the house of mother ocallagan as she was usually termed


the outside of the edifice first attracted my astonishment being one of those old buildings which were hastily put up in old times when the future importance of the city was scarcely as much as imagined


it was stuck on a mass of rocks creating the belief that the street had been formerly about twenty feet higher than at present


so insecure did it look in the uncertain gaslight as to oc casion the unpleasant impression that any two or three powerful men mischievously inclined could prize the entire building off its perch by means of a lever into the street beneath


the gro tesque appearance of the building was increased by several modern additions which had been found necessary on account of the increasing population and the increased popularity of mother ocallagan as a board and lodging house keeper


on each front window was posted half a sheet of foolscap inscribed with the following notice bord han loggin here for singil ginthilmin han their wives han childer if so be theyve got hany by judith o callagan


the front door was open and my conductor without ceremony led me in shouting out holloa mother come here if ye arnt dead


the worthy hostess soon presented herself


she was a hale powerful looking dame of about five and forty with a perpetual grin on her features as if some time previous she had laughed so excessively that her mouth never afterwards resumed its regular shape


arrah hawlwell said she its right glad i am to see yer ill send for a ball of whatever yer like


here


mary han fetch a bottle and get a pint of brandy


come here for the money


a rough hibernian brogue which of course emanated from mary anne who was in an adjoin ing bedroom answered husht yer clatter and wate a wile till i puts ou my mantedela reine


och did ye hever hear the like


shouted mrs ocallaghan its coming to something with these sarvant gals in sydney


divil a shoe nor a shstockin did mary han ever see sight of afore she cummed here but now


woo


look at her


this was said just as mrs ocallagans maid of all work squeezed her extensive silk surroundi bus protruded all around by her hooped and starched under garments


an illshaped black mass like a coal sack split down the middle and termed a manteldelareine covered her upper person being secured in the front by an enormous cameo brooch which in cases of necessity would have served the purpose of a frying pan


her head was surrounded by a fire coloured silk bon net trimmed outside with a profusion of green ribbons and by two things resembling congreve rockets in explosion


inside it was ornamented by imitation broad beans in blossom cherries asparagus and other floral fruit and vegetable adornments


this elegant young creature was armed with a large sized amber coloured parasol which she handled with the grace attributed to a bear when being instructed in the manual exercise with a musket


her nose was at once the most prominent and the most pre tentious feature of her face being a sort superior to turnedup and generally distinguished as cocked


her lips were protuberant particularly the lower one displaying two rows of formidable teeth which would be reckoned handsome if per taining to a pony


having received the bottle and the price of the brandy mary anne was again disconcerted


by jabers exclaimed she i cant find my retikal


and my podmunhay is in it


dye think im going without my retikul


not i by jabers


at length the reticule was found the brandy was produced and after the boatman had canted half of it into his gullet he prepared to depart


and now mother he remarked mind and give this young gentleman introducing me the height of good treatment


hes a particular friend of mine


weve been pals together in old times in many a capital freak so use him kindly for my sake


dame ocallagan having invoked st peter st patrick and numerous other saints to bear witness to her promise of treating me as if i was her own blessed born son hawlwell shook me heartily by the hand and took his leave


i felt grateful for the kind interest which he had so generously displayed in my behalf although i certainly wished he had not drawn so extensively on imagination with regard to the palship and roystering affair


mary anne took a light and showed me to my dormitory and i was soon in the armsnot of mary annebut of morpheus


to be concluded in our next


the mysteries of sydney not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


chapter iv


the coquette


the play interspersed with similar piecemeal conversation proceeded and though slasher had a ready response to every observation ad dressed either directly or indirectly to him by the parties engaged his keen eye and dexterous hand were alive to the slightest variation in the game which as indicated by the constant addi tion to the mass of crumpled notes collected be tween his jewelled fingers continued to befriend him


vernons excitement it was painful to wit ness