The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, August 28, 1913, Image 3
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Neither our de sire nor our power Is there.”—Cornelia A. P. Comer, In Atlantic. Anecdotal. Menelaus^ was king of ancient Laco nia, and being such, he deemed it only his duty to be as laconic as possible, so. In a manner of speaking, to set the pace for the people. Now, his wife was none other than the beautiful Helen, and, of course, the day came at last when she wanted a new hat. Could she have it? “No,” replied Menelaus. “Just because ‘no’ Is a letter shorter than ‘yes!’ ’’ protested Helen, and burst Into tears, and at the first chance ran away with Paris.—Puck. . ' • Lo, the Poor American! ■ Hagop Barasyjian of Fitchburg.and Menad Estabobrakamaslan of Lowell went fishing yesterday in Lake Charg oggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagu n gamaug, near Worcester, with their cousin, Haijjoman Saralaneroparanian, whom they are visiting for the week end, but you would never have learned it from us If we hadn’t been able to paste 1L—Boston Globe. * ' Real Influence. “Let me write the songs of a na tion,” said the ready made philoso pher, “and I care not' who makes the laws.” * “I won’t go quite so far as that,” replied Senator Sorghum; “but let me write the amendments and I care not • who draws up the hills.” r ^ Like a Pleasant Thought of an old friend— Post Toasties with cream. Sweet, crisp bits of white Indian corn, toasted to an appetizing, golden brown. 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De Sartlnes, tne minister of police, thinks she has some other motive than pleasure in delaying her departure and surrounds her wun spies to discover, if possible, whether sne la dabbling in state plots. De Lussao is a noble of exeeptlona character of that period. Handsome, wun all the elegance of a man of the court, there is still about him something tnar stamps him as a man apart, something the visionary, the enthusiast and the poet, rare in that age of animal lust, ■chining wit and embroidered brutality. He *“ fact, steeped in the philosophy of Rous seau and is trying to put this philosophy into practice through his connection wun a secret society that is plotting the down fall of the state. Before he has gone far enough to incriminate himself he tans in love with the beautiful Austrian, who per suades him hls method of righting the wrongs of humanity is Impracticable, ana ends by promising to go to Vienna with her to live. As he leaves her house a fellow con spirator, his chief. Joins him, says several of their members are arrested, ana en trusts the secret articles of the association to him. He then explains to De Lussao that their only hope is to intimidate the minister of police. This can be accom plished only by obtaining an incriminat ing contract signed by the minister of po lice and in the possession and safe keep ing of De Richelieu, De Lussac’s cousin. With this contract In their possession they can dictate terms to the minister of po lice, obtain the release of the members already imprisoned and be safe them ■Gives. De Lussac goes home, buries the papers he has Just received, writes Madame Lin den that he is attempting one last mission for the society, and also writes an asso ciate telling him where the papers may be found in case of his death. Then he en ters Richelieu's home and almost succeeds In getting the document, hut is surprised and leaves it in a drawer which he has unlocked. Before he can make another attempt he is arrested and taken to the Bastile but not before he has told Madame Linden how nearly he succeeded in get ting the document. She, realizing how desperate her lover's position is, visits Richelieu's home and succeeds where her lover has failed. CHAPTER VD—Continued. Hls fury had expended itself and he was now calm; hls mind cleared, and deep shame overcame him for the mo ment. He recognised with horror that he had been acting like a wild beast drunk with captivity. He sat up on the bed, and scarcely had he done so when a noise came from the corridor outside the cell; the bolts shot back, the door opened, and the jailer appeared. The man looked at De Lussac for a moment. ; ^ "You are better, I see. That Is well for there is a visitor to see you.” De Lussao sprang to hls feet as e man, wearing a dark cloak and a broad brimmed hat, entered the cell. The man’s face was Invisible, for he held a fold of the cloak over It; nothing but the eyes, bright and piercing, could be seen beneath the shadow of the hat brim. For a moment De Lussac, as he glanced at this sinister figure, fancied that this was some emissary of the king or De Sartlnes come to despatch him; only for a moment. The unknown without lowering hls cloak, said, speaking to the jailer: "Leave us and close the door without locking It. Take your post at the end of the corridor and wait for mo there.” -l iiv jauci n out uut «tuu viuoou tuo door; (the cloak fell from the face of the unknown, and De Lussac found himself fronting his kinsman, the Due de Richelieu. T,Well, rrtonsieur," said the due, taking oft his hat and flinging it on the table while he let the cloak slip from his shoulders, "this is a nice pq sltlon in which you have placed your self!" De Lussac could not speak for a moment. He stood with his hand grasping the back of the chair, while the due, placing the cloak on the table beside the hat, continued: “A conspirator against the state, a De Lussac, a cousin of mine, and a robber. Cordieu, monsieur, I dread to Inquire further into your doings for fear of what I may find." The sight of the due and these words were like wine to De Lussac. His intellect, mode clear by his past fury, was now like the atmosphere purged by a storm. Fortunately for himself, he had eaten nothing that day but a morsel of bread; in i second thoughts passed through his mind that in ordinary circumstances would have taken a minute in their flight. He recognized that fate had at last given him his chance, and htt took it. “Monsieur,” said he, "if you will take your seat on the side of that bed, I will take this chart-; then we can converse the more easily. To what do you refer?” “To what do I refer?" replied the marechal, taking his seat on the side of the bed. “1 refer to your conduct, monsieur." "You called me a robber.” “And I call you it again. You came to my house. I onered you hospital ity; you opened my bureau; you or the woman you know of abstracted a private paper—” “Stay, monsieur. Do you refer to Madame Linden?” “X do." "How is she implicated in this mat ter?” "How? She called upon me last night; that is how. She took advan tage of my absence from the room— I don’t know how. At all events, the thing is gone. Between you, you have done this act. Don’t speak. X did not come here to argue, but to dictate. That document must be returned." “And if it is not returned?” “Then, monsieur, you are a prisoner for life. Oh, I know you say to your self. ’I am the Comte de Lussac. 1 have powerful friends: they will free me.' Well, I can only reply, documents have been discovered in your house ol such a nature that, should we use them against you—well, you are hope lessly lost.” "Documents! What documents?" The marechal laughed. "You shall see them with your own ey/es.” He placed his hand in his pocket and produced a small bundle of papers. De Lussac Instantly recognized the papers of the Society of the Midi. He started In his chair and his face flushed despite himself. "Well,” said De Richelieu, exhibiting the bundle, “what do you say to that? Look; examine them. Are they gen uine? What d you say to that?” “Monsieur," said De Lussac. taking the papers In his hand and glancing at them, “I have only one thing to say— it seems I have been robbed Just as you have been robbed, and before God I would sooner be robbed of docu ments like these than of a document like that, in which an infamous king and an Infamous minister conspire to rob the people of their food. By a miraculous chance these documents have returned to me. Monsieur, can not you see the hand of God In that? You cannot? Then feel It!” In a moment De Richelieu was on his back upon the bed, with De Lussac on top of him. The attack was so sudden and un expected that the marechal had no time to cry out before the comte's thumb, pressing on his thyroid car tilage, made outcry impossible. “Monsieur,” said De Lussac, “I do not wish to kill you,- but should It be needful I will do so.” With his free hand he began to un loose De Richelieu’s scarf so as to gag him with it. Then he saw that It was unnecessary. The marechal had lost consciousness; he looked as though he were dying. He felt horrified, but he had no time to palter with his feelings. He picked the precious packet of docu ments from the floor and thrust it Into his pocket, put on the marchola’s belt and sword, put on the hat, put on the cloak, opened the cell door, raised the cloak to his face and left the cell, closing the door behind him. The Jailer was leaning against the wall at the end of the corridor. Seeing the man in the cloak, he came forward and locked and barred the cell door. He saw no difference between the man he had let into the cell and the man who had come out; there was only a short inch of difference be tween the two. He turned the key in the lock and slid the bolts. As he di<J this a faint and stifled cry came from the cell. De Lussac’s heart scarcely changed its rhythm; he was beyond emotion. If the Jailer at tempted to open the door he would kill the man with the sword beside him; he would try to reach the carriage which he knew must be In waiting; failing in that, he would fight his way, sword In hand, as far as possible to ward freedom. The Jailer paused for a moment with the keys in his hand, then he led the way from the cell along the corridor. They had reached the heavy door leading to the staircase when muffled cries and the sound of some one beat ing on a door came after them. “There he goes,” said the turnkey. “He’s In hiB tantrums again. He’ll be breaking his furniture next They gen erally do. Allow me. Monseigneur." He opened the door leading to the stairs. De Lussac passed through, the man closed and locked the door and then led the way downward. As De Lussac followed, his heart, till now calm, became furiously alive; each downward step was an agony. What formalities were there still to be gone thVough? Would he have to enter the governor’s room? Would the guards at the main door ask to see the permit that doubtless De Richelieu had shown them? He knew that De Richelieu must have arrived in a carriage and that the carriage would be In wait ing. Wouln De Richelieu's coachman fall to recognize him? Had De Rich elieu brought one of his dogs with him? Had he by any chance brought a com panion? They reached the corridor below and the Jailer began to unlock the great door leading to the corridor on which was situated the chamber of audience. The door opened slowly on Its well oiled hinges, and when they had passed through It closed with a sucking sound, as though La B&stlle were catching her breath back with a sob at the escape of this victim. But they were not free of her yet. • As they approached the chamber of audience a bar suddenly shot out, blocking their way. It was the pike of the Swiss on guard at the door of the room. The Jailer, producing a pa per from hts belt, handed It to the man, who read It, raised his pike and allowed them to pass on. Another ponderous door was opened; they passed through, and there at the end of the corridor De Lussac saw the sunlight shining through the open malh door, and at the steps a carriage drawn ud and evidently waiting for De Rich elieu. The guards at the main door had still to be passed. There were half a dozen of them, some lounging on a bench inside the doorway, some on the steps; but as the mysterious figure of the man In the cloak drew near these gentlemen exhlibted a studied Indif ference, turning and talking to one an other. They did not even raise their eyes as De Lussac passed them, and the guards on the steps faced about, giving him their backs. There were two carriages drawn up, one at the steps—a splendid vehicle blazoned on Its panels with a coat of arms, and another very plain, without sign of armorial bearings, drawn up behind the first. It was now that De Lussac's knowl edge of heraldry saved him from mak ing a terrible blunder, for the carriage at the steps bore the arms of Mon sieur de Launay, the governor, who’ had evidently Just arrived. He turned to the plain vehicle and entered it, and the coachman on the box, who evidently suspected nothing, touched his horses with the whip and they started. The man had asked for no directions; It was evident that his Instructions had been laid down for him, and De Lussac leaned back on the cushions, almost suffocated by his success and the near ness of freedom. Suddenly .the carriage stopped. It was the Inner gateway, and the harsh voices of the guards could be heard In terrogating the coachman. Then a face appeared at ths window. It was the corporal ,of the guard. He peeped In, saluted the* cloaked figure and with drew. The carriage drove on, only to stop again at the drawbridge. Again came the voices of the guards and tfie voice of the coachman replying to them. He was evidently showing them Ills permit. They passed on, and now came the deep rumble of the wheels on the drawbridge, the grumble of La Bas tile at the escape of her victim. Now they were in the Rue Saint An olne, free at last—for the moment. De Lussac knew that at any minute he jailer might revisit his cell, find he trick that had been played on him, ind then a cannon from the battle nents would give tongue to the pursuit, Guards, Swiss soldiers the agents of De Sartlnes, all would be on his track, •ansacking Paris, turning out every socket of the city where man might tide. It was Imperative to leave the car riage and try to reach some place 3f safety. The carriage was evi dently .taking him to De Richelieu’s house, a place he dared not go. He had only one louts in his pocket; his face was known to 1,000 men; he could not walk the streets with the cloak held to his eyes; he had no definite plan to guide him. Never was man In a more perplexing situation, yet he’ did not despair, and the thing that gave him confidence was the sword at his side. "If the worst comes to the worst, I can only die,” said he. "When I leave this carriage I must first seek Mon sieur Hlanc in the Rue Petit Versailles, and give him these papers to keep. Then—then whi re shall I go? To whom shall I turn?" He thought of Sophie Linden. Should he seek refuge at her house? Never! She was already attainted by him. De Richelieu had said that the Porcheron contract had been stolen, but De Lus sac could scarcely believe that it was her work. Were he traced to her house and taken there, she would suffer as well as he. He put the subject from his mind and addressed himself to the problem of how he was to leave the carriage with out attracting the attention of the dri ver. They were still In the Rue Saint An toine, driving swiftly westward. They, had passed the Rue de Ratals on the right and were drawing near the church of Petit Saint Antoine when several drays, laden with wood from the wood yards of the Rue de la Plan chette, blocked the way and caused the carriage to slow. Instantly and and like a discharging volcano the coachman of De Richelieu began storming at the carters, and cuttltig at them with his whip as though they were dogs. The whole social condition of France, lay In that little episode, and the salvation, for the moment, of De Lussac, who, opening the carriage door and slipping out, closed the door gently and made for the Rue de Four ci, which they had just passed on the ’eft. The empty carriage drove on. CHAPTER VIII THE PORTE ST. BERNARD To Imagine that old jungle of a Par is in which De Lussac found himself now, on foot, without friends, pursued, or soon to be pursued by the police, and all but penniless, one must look at the Paris of tho present day and con trast what is with what has vanished. To the southward beyond the bastile the Faubourg St. Antoine stretched toward Le Trone in great space of gar dens and fields. Here one found the houses of religious orders: the Filles de la Croix, the Enfants Trouves, Notre Dame de Bon Secours, Ste. Mar guerite and half a dozen others; the great glass manufactory of the Rue de Revllly; Revllly Itself, with its gardens and vast grounds. > Casting one’s eyes to the southwest, one saw windmills twirling their arms at Petit Gentllly, the Faubourg St. Jacques, with its great Bpaces destitute of houses, broken only by the Val do Grace, the observatory and Saint Ma glolre, the Faubourg St. Michel, fields and trees and windmills and country roads. • Westward Paris ended, as far as the crush of houses is concerned, a little southward of the Place Vendome. Where the Faubourg St. Honore is now alive with traffic and business, then there was nothing but gardens, plots of land, tree lined roads and the mansions of the nobility. Some of the most splendid houses in Paris were to be found here: the Hotel Contad, the Hotel Goebrlan, the Hotels de Charost, Montbazon, D’Aguesseau, and D'Evre ux; the Hotel de Ruras, Immense in its parallelogram of walled gardens, and the Hotel de Chevilly in its tri angular grounds at the foot of the Rue St. Honore. Northward tho heights of Mont martre Bhowed trees; the Faubourg St. Martin, trees and the roofs of tho Hospital St. Louis; the Faubourg du Temple, Courtllle, Pincourt—trees, waste spaces, gardens, wrlndmills. (Continued next week.) Actual Results Recorded. The orations of temperance workers are often excited by seal or wrath; the in ternal returns of the government are cold and Impartial records of facts and of cash turned into the treasury. The record for the past flscal year arouses wonder. The people paid in taxes upon strong drink for the past 12-month the sum ef $222, 788,000. The people consumed 143,220,000 gallons of whisky and brandy, which brought a revenue ef $167,642,000, and 06,246,000 barrels of beer and ale, which brought a revenue of $66,246,000. The aggregate of these two sums is often referred to as the nation’s drink bill, but It is, in fact, only the in ternal revenue tax on the enormous drink bill. The Increase of the tax alone during the past year was nearly $7,600,000 for dis tilled spirits and nearly $3,000,000 for fer mented liquors, or a total Increase in ex cise alone of more than $10,000,000 within a 12-month. This amazing increase conies on top of cumulative increases year by year, and for people who think it is to bo noted that the growth of the liquor habit has been co-incident with a spirited pro hibition and local option campaign that has covered a large part of the territory of the continental United States. 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