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TIIK l-KNAL COOK.
"Of a danger from which even you will shrink,
brave as you are' said the young man, in a voice
of emotion, that forcibly struck hU father.
".Agricola," said the soldier roughly and se
verely, "that remark is cowardly, you are insult
ing." "Father"
"Cowardlyl" resumed the soldier, angrily; "be
cause it is cowardice to wish to frighten a man
from his duty insulting! because you think me
capable of being so frightened."
"Oh, M. Dagobertl" exclaimed the sewing girl,
"you do not understand Agricola."
"I understand him too well," answered the
soldier, harshly.
Painfully affected by the severity of his father,
but firm in his resolution, which sprang from
love and respect, Agricola rosumod, whilst his
heart beat violently: "Forgive me, if I disobey
you. father; but were you to hate me for it, I must
tell you to what you expoHO yourself by scaling at
night the walls of a convent
"My son! do you dare?" cried Dagobert, bis
countenance inflamed with rage
"Acricolal" exclaimed Francos, in tears. "My
husband!"
"M. Dagobort, listen to Agricola!" exclaimed
Mother Bunch. "It is only in your interest that
he ppeaks."
"Not one word more!" replied the soldier.stamp-
ing his foot with angor.
"I tell you, father," exclaimed the smith, grow
ing fearfully pale as he spoke, "that jrou risk be
ing sent to the galleys!"
"Unhappy boy!" cried Dagobert, seizing his
son by the arm; "could you not keep that from
me rather than expose me to become a traitor and
a coward?" And the soldier shuddered as he re
peated: "The galleys!" and bending down bis
bead, romained mute, pensive, withered, as it
wero, by those blasting words.
"Yes, to enter an inhabited place by night, in
Buch a manner, is what the law calls burglary
and punishes with the galleys," cried Agricola, at
once grieved and rejoicing at bis father's depres
sion of mind "yes, father, the galloys, if you are
taken in the act; aud there are ten chances to one
that vou would bo so. Mother Bunch has told
v I
you, the convent is guarded. This morning, bad
you attempted to carry off the two young ladies
in broad daylight, you would have been arrested,
but, at least, the attempt would have been an
open one, with a character of honest audacity
about it, that hereafter might have procured your
acquittal. But to enter by night, and by scaling
the walls I tell you tho galleys would be the con
sequence. Now, father, decide. Whatever you
do. I will do also for you shall not bo alone.
Say but the word, and I will forge the book for
you I have here hammer and pincers and in an
hour we will set out."
A profound silence followed these words a si
lence that was only interrupted by the stiflod
sobs of Frances, who muttered to herself in des
pair: "Alas! this is the consequence of listeniug
to Abbe Dubois!"
It was in vain that Mother Bunch tried to con
sole Frances. She was herself alarmed, for the
soMier was capable of braving even infamy, ami
Agricola had determined to" share the perils of
bis father.
In spite of bis energetic and resolute character
Dagobert remained for some time in a kind of
stupor. According to bis military habits, be had
looked at his nocturnal enterprise as a rvs de
guerre, authorized by bis good cause, and by the
inexorable fatality of bis position; but the words
of his son brought him back to the fearful reality,
and left him the choice of a terrible alternative
either to betray the confidence of Marshal Si
mon, and set at naught the last wishes of the
mother of the orphans or else to expose him
self, and above all bis eon, to lasting disgrace
without even the certainty of delivering the or
phans after all.
Drying her eyes, bathed in tears, Frances ex
claimed as if by a sudden inspiration. "Dear me!
I have just thought of it. There is perhaps
way of getting these dear children from the con
vent without violence."
"How so, mother?" said Agricola, hastily.
"It is Abbe Dubois, who bad them conveyed
thither; but Gabriel supposes he probably acted
by the advice of M. Rodin."
"And if that were so, mother, it would be vain
to apply to M. Rodin. We should get nothing
from him."
"Not from him but perhaps from that power
ful abbe, who is Gabriels' superior, and has
always patronized him since bis first entrance
into the seminary."
"What abbe, mother?"
"Abbe d'Aigrigny."
"True, mother; before being a priest, he was a
sold er be may be more accessible than others
and yet '
"D'Aigrigny!" cried Dagobert, with an express
ion of ha'e and horror. "There is, then, mixed
up with these treasons, a man who was a soldier
before being a priest, aud whose name is l) Aig-rigny?"
"Yes, father; the Marquis d'Aigrigny before
the Restoration, in the service of Russia but, in
1 8 1 f, the Bourbons gave him a regiment."
"It is he!" said Dagobert, in hollow voice.
'Always the same! like an evil spirit to the
mother, father, children."
"What do you mean, father?"
"The Marquis d'Aigrigny!" replied Dagobert.
"Do you know what is this man? Before he was
priest, he was tho murderer of Kose and
Blanche's mother, because she despised his love.
Before he was a priest, he fought against his
country, and twice met General Simoa face to
face in war. Yes; while the General was a pns
oner at Leipsic, covered with wounds at Waterloo,
the turncoat maniuis triumphed with the Russ
ians and English! Under the Bourbons this
same renegade, loaded with honors, found him
self once more face to face with the persecuted
soldier of the empire. Between them, this time,
tlr wn a mortal duel the marouis was
wounded General Simon was proscribed, con
demned, driven into exile. The re egade, you
say, has become a priest. Well! I am n w cer
tain that it is be who carried off Rose and Blanche
in order to wreak on them his hatred of their
father and mother. It is the infamous D'Aigrig
ny, who holds them in his power. It is no longer
the fortune of these children tliat I have to de
fend; it is their life do you hear what I say?
their very life!"
"What, father! do you think this man capable
without much risk eh, father?" added he, with
significant glance at Dagobert. "Once more.be
comforted, dear mother. I will answer for every
thing. We will deliver Marshal Simon's daugh
ters, and Mdlle de Cardovilletoo. Sister give me
the hammer and pincers, there in the press."
The sempstress, drying her tears, did as desired
while Agricola, by the help of bellows, revived
the fire in which the tongs were beating.
"A traitor to his country, who finishes by be
coming a mock priest, is capable of anything.
tell you that, perhaps at this moment, he may be
killing those poor children by a slow fire!" ex
claimed the soldier in a voice of agony. "To
separate them from one another was to begin to
kill them. Yes!" added Dagobert with an exas
peration impossible to describe; "the daughters
of Marshal Simon are in the power of the Mar
quis d'Aigrigny and his band, and I hesitate to
attempt their rescue, for fear of the galleys! The
galleys!" added he, with a convulsive burst of
laughter; "what do I care for the galleys? tan
they send a corpse there? If this last attempt
fail, shall I not have the right to blow my brains
out? Tut the iron in the fire, my boy quick
time presses and strike while the iron is hot!'
"But your son goes with you!" exclaimed Fran
ces, with a cry of maternal despair. Tben rising
she throw herself at the foet of Dagobert, aud said
"If you are arrested, he will be arrested also."
"To escape the galleys, he will do as I do.
have two pistols."
"And without you without him," cried the
unhappy mother, extending her hands in supph
cation, "what will become of me?
"You are right, I was too selfish," said Dagobert
"I will go alone."
"You shall not go alone, father," replied Agri
cola.
"But your mother?"
"Mother Bunch sees whit is passing; she wi
cm to Mr. Hardv. mv master, and tell him all
e .
He is the most generous of men, and my mother
will have food and shelter for the rest of her
days."
Aud I am the cause of all!" cried Frances,
wringing her hands in despair. ' Punish me, oh,
heaven! for it is my fault. I gave up those child
ren. I shall be punished by the death of my
child!"
"Agricola, you shall not go with me I forbid
it!" said Dagobert, clasping his son closely to' his
breast.
"What! when I have pointed out the danger,
am I to be the first to shrink from it? you cannot
think thus lowly of me, father! Have I not also
some one to deliver? The good, the generous
Mdlle de Cardoville, who tried to save me from a
prison is a captive in her turn! I will follow you
father. It is my right, my duty, my determina
tion."
So saying, Agricola, put into the heated stove
the tongs that were intended to form the hook
"Alas! may heaven have pity upon us!" cried his
poor mother, sobbing as she still knelt, whilst the
soldier seemed a prey to the most violent internal
struggle.
"Do not cry so, dear mother; y ou will break
my heart," said Agricola, as he raised her with
the semptress' help. "Be comforted! I have ex
aggerated the danger of my father. By acting
prudently, we two may succeed in our enterprise.
"Here are your tool, agricola," said the hunch
back, in a deeply agitated voice, as she presented
them with trembling bands to the smith, who,
with the aid of the pincers, soon drew from the
fire the white-hot tones, and. with vigorous blowa
w 9 9 -
of the hammer, formed them into a hook, taking
the stove for his anvil."
(To be continued.)
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