Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 200, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1876 — Page 3

CHAPTER XIY. MONT VALERIEX.

In the casemates of the Mont Yalerien fortress there. is that subdued murmur and general air of keen expectancy which the Parisians have learned to interpret all too surely.

Another desperate effort is to mticl6 to shake off the daily narrowing circle of iron and tire that isolates the city. Huddied close together, softening the frozen ground by the heat of their bodies, they who are to make—or, at least, support— this final attempt, seem to hope little from

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they can do—or, rather, from all their leaders will allow them to do. For this is the opinion prevalent in the casemates:— Never was liner material spoilt and misused by more incompetent commanders.

On this text the National Guards held forth untiringly. They were proving the treasonous propensities of the Government to their own satisfaction, if not to that of their ofiicers, who listened fearfully to the mutterings of incipient mutiny, when a tall, lean, sunken-eyed citizen-sol-dier, who had made a species of tent of his uniform c:rp'te, and was tilling it with tobacco-smoke, asked, suddenly, ""What has become of Lagarde "Present," said Kugene, suddenly appearing from the low, ramshackle shed that served as a canteen. "Oh, the Captain lias been asking for you." said another di'cnder, whoso voice and features proclaimed his identity with the democrat, Cho^an d. "Let him come nud Imd me," said Kugene. coolly sireichii'g hiir.selt on the groiiiic! in tlie s!. i.i.i'.v of the casemate wall. "And you. Zabrinski, why were you making inquiries as to my whereabouts?" "Only war. to 1 now what was going on down in tuwn. 'i i-'y tell lis notning now, curse theni!" "Well, 1 hey are talking-of an armistice in towi^."

A low curse broke from the men. "Ay, aii'i then, a peace—a capitulation and the Uhlans on the l.ou'eva:ds, and Alsace surrendi-i'.-d! I see il ali:" said Choquard, in a tone of .suppressed rage.

Zabrinski, Choquard, and Eugene fell to whispering gloomily, while others carTied the rumor of

the

but

armistice—it was

a rumor then—to comrades in other angles of

the

fort.

The low-toned conference was interrupted by a voice crying in the dusk, "la Lagarde back?"

Lagarde rose slowly, knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and confronted his Captain—Clement de Uoisrobert. "Ay, moit qittilne, here he is."

De Boisrob.n beckoned, and together they mounted the rude steps that led to the curtain of tLe fortress. "Lagarde," said Clement, abruptly, "I have done, much for you, and 1 expect a slight return now." "One always does for an act of charity," said Kugene, with a sneer,

Clement hesitated, and said frankly, as though he could discover no other way of expressing himself, "You have spoken of documents in your possession that nearly concern the Count de Chayolles' family." "Well*" said Eugene, examining his companion's face curiously and somewhat uneasily. "Well, circumstances, which I do not mean to particularize, render those papers of great importance to me. "What price do you put upon them?"

Eugene started, and glanced more narrowly at I)e Boisrobert. He appeared reassured by the rapid survey, and answered, "They are not for sale, mow Capitaine." "Nonsense everything is for sale."

(*You

have my answer," said Eugene,

beginning to luetic. "Lagarde, I wai you not to trifle with me I must have those papers."

Between two bars of the "Rhin-Alle-mafl" Eugene returned,"Must is a portentous monosyll-'ble, 1 intend to keep them, M. de Boisi-i.bert.'' "That is your last word?"

Clement had resumed his calm decision of attitude. "That is my last word.'"' Eugene echoed adding, contemptuously, "Oh, your scowl is useless! Yve a.re in the sume boat, lou cannot founder me alone.' -Can't 11 Wait!" returned Clement, tranquilly.

At this juncture, one of the ofiicers on duty touched the Captain on the shoulder. "Look there. De Boisrobert our troops are deploying to the right."

Night had closed in upon them while De Boisrobert and Eugene had been talking,

A vague and often-dimmed moon made the bayonets of Ducrot's division glitter fitfully in the darkness. The men looked steadily out on the plain before them. "Those are masses moving down on Suresnes," said one, pointing to the little town at the" foot of Mont Valerien. "The enemy, of course," observed another officer.

A sudden inspiration seemed to come to De Boisrobert. He reflected for a moment. then remarked, quickly and decidedly," "That ought to be ascertained."

He walked away rapidly towards the Commandant's oflices. His companions looked after him, laughing and shrugging their shoulders. "De Boisrobert's naif," said one. "We are trying to surprise Suresnes. and he thinks those are our own men in it already."

The subject of this remark returned almost immediately, lie had found the Commandant—a grocer but. recently invested with military functions—in a state of mental confusion bordering on lunacy, and had easily obtained all the authority he wanted.

He called to a lieutenant, and a few moments fifty men were in line on the curtain.

Lagarde, Choquard, and Zabrinski were among the number. "You are to take «your party down to vonder outhouses," said Clement, to the lieutenant, "and ascertain the nature of the movements made by those masses operating on the edge of the village. See to whom they belong." "I thought so," muttered Lagarde, between his teeth.

A ETOUO of officers had collected am* staredinbb.uk astonishment on hearing this order given. Clement stud, briefly, "By order of the Commandant." "It is wanton slaughter,"saidChoquard, in a whisper "We know the troops down there perfectly well. Fifty men! They sweep us awav with one vodej

Stoically, but sulh-nly, the young beutenant pl.Iced himself at the head of the little column, and the word was giveu. "March!

A lively line tire opened to the right as tVie men disappeared. The French were advancing, and. as it had always happened from the 'beginning of the war, the 1 russians had discovered them some nours be-1 fore the intended surpri f/eted.

one of

dible save the distant roll of musketry from the plains to the right, where the battle was raging.

Then suddenly, nearer, at the foot of the' hill, volleys from Chassepots and needle-guns rang through the air. There were quick flashes during some ten nynutes then the firing slackened, dwindled into a dribble of isolated shots. '1 hen all was still.

In a quiirter of an hour, an ordeily reported to De Boisrobert. '•A remnant of the reconnoitung partj has returned, sir."

Clement started nervously then asked, "How many?" "Five." "Send them here."

They appeared, black with smoke and powder, bleeding, and still panting fr°m that rush for life to the shelter of tne alerien guns. Foremost of the small remaining group were Choquard and Zabrinski. "Forty-five dead, nioii Cajritaine^ said the

former,

laconically,—"and the lieuten

ant. The corps in possession of Suresnes is Bavarian, 12th Regiment." "Ileavv loss—heavy loss!" said Clement, assuming a doleful air.

But an expression of profound relief came over him as he scanned the iaces of the survivors.

The soldiers retired. Choquard lingered behind, and handing a torn piece of car-touche-paper to Clement, said, abruptly, "Private Lagarde— shot in tlio breast— asked me to deliver this to M. le Capitaine."

Traced in blood, with a bayonet point, were the words— "Lost your stake on the red. My ono dear friend has the papers, and will give them up to no one."

Clement was furious—cursed himself, the dead man, fate, and that supreme deity of godless gamesters like liimseif—luck. His rage would perhaps have'eooh-d down into something like fear, had he 't-n able to hear the few muttered v.-o: :1s that passed between the men who had just left Lis presence. "This crowns the reckoning," said Choquard. "Spy, cheat, craven, and now assassin!" hissed Zabrinski. "It must be a terrible vengeance now. Our day is dawning. He shall be the first creditor disposed of." "The first?" "The lirst!"

And the boom of artillery, the long rumble of small arms, went on, while this part was concluded.

CHAPTER XV.

A RBA.PPARITro*.

The baffle lias been fought and won.— by which side, the men at Mont Valerien can only surmise. They are not loquacious respecting the event their surmises are not cheerful. Experience has taught them to be modest in such conjectures. So their chief uncertainty 'is as to the direction in which the French have retreated the number of their dead, the captured cannon, etc. That they have retreated— that France lias lost another battle—the National Guards make not a moment's doubt.

The men were sleepingkinthe casemates, wearied of the excitement, careless of the event, only eager to get some hours of warmth and sleep. On the curtain, ten vague figures of sentinels were perceptible at long intervals. Choquard was one of these, and halted opposite the canteen with a persistent immobility that would assuredly have drawn down upon him a severe reprimand from any officer who had chanced to be reconnoitering in that direction.

But few officers chose needlessly to brave the sharp niglit-air, and Choquard stood unseen, peering into the night "Deucedly singular!" said the Democrat again and again to himself, "It must be a tree waving in this confounded easterly wind. No it's too short. A bush, perhaps? No it's moving—I'll swear it's moving1, and coming towards us, too!"

And he waited silently, with eyes fixed upon a small, dark mass, that seemed veritably to be coming nearer to the fort. It appeared to crawl, halting at moments, aa though to rest or reconnoitre—then continued it's onward march, slowly and cautiously. "Hang it!" said Choquard. after a quarter of an hour's watching—"it is unmistakably'a man! There, I saw a white face in the moonlight! I wish Diana would turn up the gas onc« for all one might take a sight at him."

And he called out, in low but ringing tones, "Sergeant of the guard!" "Here!" responded a sleepy voice from the neighborhood of the canteen.

A few muffled steps were heard, and the sergeant's guard appeared on the curtain. "Sergeant, that is a human figure approaching—eh?" **Of course it is ana within nailing diatance, too."

The figure was now close to the grassgrown slope of the curtain. "Qui vive?" cried Choquard, shouldering his breech-loader. "La Franca!" answered a faint, hesitating voice—"oth Chasseurs d'Afrique." "The deuce! They're in Metz," said the sergeant. "But don't, fire. Let him come up. I'll report the matter."

In a few moments, Clement de Boisrobert, roused by the sergeant, was upon the scene. "Challenge again," said he.

The figure was now within a few yards of the slope. "Qui vive, I say?" *'Franca—5thChasseurs d'Afrique."

Clement's face paled horribly. He leaned for support on the sergeant's shoulders. "Ah!"' he muttered "it is Francisque's voice."

The officers smiled. The stranger was almost in tatters. The embroidery was torn from his coat the buttons were alsent. Where the cavalry jacket opened, a coarse trooper's shirt, begrimed and torn, was visible. "How came you here?" "I have been sick. I have only just succeeded in passing through the enemy's lines." "Sick—where?" "At Versailles."

The commandant's face darkened and Clement said, angrily, "The rascal i3 laughing at us! String him up, commandant!" "I wish I could but a court-martial must sit first. You are mad, or drunk he added, turning to the stranger "Versailles has been in Prussian hands for the last ten weeks!" "I know it." "Curse his insolence!" said the commandant. "There! take the fellow away. The court will make short work of him!" "A jirisoner, sir! I am a French officer. My name is Carayon and I repeat.it, I hold a commission in the 5th Chasseurs d'Afrique!" "Carayon? He's not insane enough to come within our lines. And if you were he, your chances would be anything but improved. It's safer to be a Prussian spy than a French runaway!" "Runaway!"

And Francisque—for it was he—put his hand to his side, and made a stride toward the gror.n of officers. lie was pulled away by the guard and the commandant said, abruptly. "Make the rascal's hands and feet fast, and take him to the guard-house. He must be transferred to the cells to-morrow."

Francisque endeavored to protest again but violent hands were laid on him, and he was hustled down the steps to the casemates.

Only Choquard whispered to him as he passed, ''Courage! you'll have a witness for you." "We have got one of their most audacious spies," said the commandant, lighting a cigar. "Ay a shot in that fellow's head will be worth a small victory or two," returned Clement de Boisrobert.

CHAPTER XVI.

TlIK SAFE 01' THE THREE BLIND ME:i. A fev days after the events narrated in the foregoing chapter, the bleak corner house where Reine had 'taken shelter was subjected to a very close and patient scrutiny during an entire melancholy and misty afternoon.

The watcher presented the same outward peculiar characteristics as that dubious workman whom we have seen drink a chojnne with Eugene, near the Place de la Bastile. The same small, sus-piciously-white hands, the same educated moustache, the same air of elegance imparted to that most ungraceful of national garments—the blouse in short, the same individual—M. Clement de Boisrobert— seeking profitable privacy under the livery and in the haunts of labor. He was not a clumsy spy. He slouched his cap very slightly lie wore no wig, and left his complexion in its normal condition of delicacy and whiteness. He studied the corner house carelessly, with the aimless air of a street rowdy. But, nevertheless, the people who passed in and out of that house were examined and appraised with the perspicacious promptitude of an experienced detective, pawnbroker, or auctioneer.

Thus it. was that, when a workman, attired after the same fashion as himself, issued from the parte cocJiere, and made toward aside street, Clement recognised him in an instant, and followed quickly on his footsteps. He had not intended to make himself known, merely wishing to discover the strangers address but the latter, hearing footfalls,in his rear, stopped short suddenly, and turned round.

There was no help for it. Recognition was inevitable. "Indeed, Mervale! Is that you?" exclaimed Clement, rather disconcerted, but hastily resigning himself to the contretemps. "Who is it knows my name?" said Mervale, coming close. Then, recognizing Clement, he addud, "Do Boisrobert! What's the meaning of this masquerade?" "I might answer, Norman fashion, by the same question. But here's my reason. I was requested by a comrade, shot in the last affair, to find out his relatives, living in this quarter, and save thein, if possible, from the consequences of some imprudence committed by the man inadvertently. The populace is terribly excited, you know, and this quarter isn't safe for an officer or a gentleman. I fancied I should be able to fulfil my mission more easily if I played the workman for once. And now, old fellow, unbosom yourself in your turn." "It is rather a difficult process," returned Mervale. "Your French skepticism will consider my adventures more comic than a vaudeville. I am in love, De Boisrobert!" "Is that all?" said Clement, lighting a cigar. ••AH! That's enough as a beginning, surely!" "Oh! it's only a beginning. Go on, then." '•I was sick of all your opera-going, horse-racing, scandal-talking, card-play-ing fellows. I wanted to be near the young lady, which I could not have been in my character of a wealthy Englishman. Moreover, I thought I might as well see how all these poor fellows lived during the siege—take notes, sketch a little, and all ihat kind of thing. So I adopted the blouse and pipe of the Proletariat. And, hang it! I find it just as amusing as the Jockey Club!" "I dare say—paying diurnal visits in that direction," said Clement, coughing, and pointing to the house Mervale had

The figure had risen in the fitful moonlight, and cried, "Where is an entrance? I can't escalade this wall!" «It is—it is!" cried Clement, madly. "A epy, Choquard! Fire!—you, tire directly!" just left. "For I suppose that's the shrine

"Pardon, mm Capita'uie! suppose his an swer was right?" "Confound your suppositions! Fire, I say! A spy!" "More like a ghost, Captain!"

At these words, Clement rushed forward but the sentinel obeyed at last. A shot was heard.

The figure leaped madly towards the wall, springing up at its steep slope, grazing arms and knees, catching at tufts of grass and nettles.

Clement seised a rifle, and fired. There was a glimmer of light in the casemate and, followed by one or two officers, the commandant appeared upon the curtain. "What is this, Captain de Boisrobert?" "I know not, sir. A spy or a deserter!"

Clement stood apart, wiping his forehead nervously. Arms were ou'stretched, the butt-ends

could be ef- of muskets tendered and by thi3 means the stranger climl-vi over the parapet, and stood before the oi icers.

Clement returned io the canteen, with a stood «»rim "mile on his lips. A dangerous ally Cieun-ut turned away, pulled his kepi was* di-po*.'d of. 1 i' should himself con- over his forehead, and raised the collar of duct a party to ph-k up the dead—and on i, long military surtout.

those, corpses the precious docu- "Who are you, sn?" said the commandments would be found! ant sternly. Durin'-h ilf an hour nothing wA'SS-au- "Captain, 5th Chasseurs d'Afrique."'

—a mighty dilapidated one—where the divinity dwells, and makes shirts, probably."

Mervale winced,' and said, half-plead-ingly. "Don't laugh, there's a good fellow. Lot "us turn into this cafe here, and I'll tell you su:nti things that will make the 'divinity' appear adorable, even in your jaundiced Parisian sight."

Thev entered the coje of the "Three Blind Men." It is famous in the quarter. Not a Bohemian has jessed through Paris without leavir in ilie and cid I'd so'iir 1 Ooii

.g tra.-.o ox hap'

uThe

his ass ago on its walls, ough sketches, caricatures,

.. .tins not a workman of "deli.iio but has quaffed its 1hin \i :!i" rate of two sous a glass, must be the greit charm of .1? I. .: for, io jutig(» from powe no:hing

.Vht.uiib-"*? of. tables, anisic •i ':!V! 0

poor girl's last friend had aban

doned her when we met," said Mervale "an old Jew, who disappeared on the eve of the siege. She says he went into the provinces on private business. A haremscarum scapegrace of a brother turned upfrom time to time, but I never saw him.. Well, you have had enough of my loverhapsodies about another person, so I'll simply say the girl bewitched me. She is not a mere grisetfe, be assured. I found her a lady in the truest, purest sense of the abused term—patient, proud—and educated far more highly than the majority of your waltzing marquises and viscountesses." "You never told your love, eh?" "No: 'I fear my l'ato too much, as my desert is small,' as our English rhyme says. I am afraid she is not quite heartwhole. But whatever passion there may have been in her past life, I am certai.i that on her side, at least, it was pure and innocent. And she has expiated it, as though it were a crime, by hourly and deep suffering.'" "What ii t:ne did you say she bears?" "I mentioned no name," returned Mervale, unsuspiciously. "But there's no cause for concealment. It is Lagarde— Reine Lagard'1.*' "That's\i id!" exclaimed Clement, drawing some papers from his pocket. "That is the name of the poor fellow I mentioned to you—the man who was shot at Mont Yalerien." "What do yon mean "You say she had a. brother—was he in the Garde Nalionaif' "Ay and at Mont Yalerien."

Mervale had started to his feet. "What is to be done?" he said, excitedly* "The police are very busy now an outbreak is apprehended. The house may be searched at any moment." •'I must, go and warn her." "Better," said Clement "she trusts you. Get her to give you the papers bring them to me I'll deliver them. Don't mention me, of course. A man with a de to his name, and commanding Lagarde's company, would seem to her a very doubtful ally. Besides, I would be court-mar-tialed and shot, perhaps, if my name transpired. But, hang it! we can't let the poor girl fall into the pit her brother's carelessness has dug!" "Thanks—thanks!" said Mervale,wringing his friend's hand.

And in a moment he was out of the cafe. He found Reine, as he had left her, busily increasing the fluffy piles of lint in the basket at her side. "Back already?" she said, startled, and foreseeing anew misfortune. "Dear Mademoiselle Reine," said Mervale, softly, "I bring bad news. Don't tremble so it may not be true." "It is about Eugene, my brother, I know! Tell me monsieur—tell me!" and she stamped her foot impatient ly. "I can bear anything better than this lingering breaking of evil tidings!" "Your brother is missing," said Mervale, still endeavoring to lesson the shock, "lie has not been found—you are sure?" she said, catching her breath in broken Sobs. "No, no: there's nothing certain, save that he did not answer to his name at the roll-call, after the last engagement. Probably a prisoner. The Prussians made hundreds the other night."

He succeeded in a few moments in allaying her first poignant fears and then proceeded to the attainment, of the chief object in view. "If your brother is not a prisoner, he may appear at any moment. But I am told by a comrade of his that should anything happen to him, he desired you to be relieved of some private papers confided to your care "Yes, yes I know," interrupted Reine. "You were to have them." "I was to have them!" murmured Mervale, astonished. "Yes here they aye."

And she placed the packet in his hand He was confused by her ready confidence in him but, reflecting that he had better owe his success to an inexplicable accident than fail in his mission of salvation, he promptly concealed his astonishment, and placed the small parcel in his pocket. "Eugene said he knew you would use it wisely and honestly," Reine said, as the Englisman bade her good-bye. "Wisely and honestly!" he mnttered on the staircase. "I suppose he trusted in the Anglo-Saxon proverbial readiness to help a political victim. It cau only bo that."

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Clement assumed a:i earnest expression and tone. "My dear Mervale, the poor child is in terrible danger. She holds papers belonging to her brother their possession may cost her her liberty—perhaps her life. I know not the nature of the documents. But the brother prayed me, with tears in his eyes, to recover and burn them, if 1 could not pass them on to a comrade in whom he seemed to place implicit faith. I suspect, nay, I feel certain, they are the minutes of some revolutionary meeting—the plans of some Commun'stic plot!"

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STA»E AND C0UKTY

NOTICEforhereby

is Riven that the tax du-

Ucate the year 1875 is now in my hands, and thai. I am now ready to receive the taxes charged thereon. The lolloping tab shows the rate of taxation on each S'(i" of taxable property

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Taxes are due on the loth of December and taxpayers may pay the mil am«unt of suchtaxes on or before the third Monday in April, or may, at their option, pay one-half thereof 011 or before the first Monday in Noven her following. Provided, however, that all road taxes chargfd shall he paid prior to the* third Monday in April, as pre-S'-riberi by law and provided, lurther, that in all cases wlieie as much as one-half of the amount of t»x charged agair-st a tax* payer shall not be paid on or oetore the third Monday in April ihe whole amount charged shall become due and returned delinquent, and be collected ns 1 rovided by law. Deiii-quent lands are advertised on or about ilia lirst Moi. day January, and are

Id 011 the second Monday of February of each year. The Treasurer is responsible for the taxes he cou^d have collected, r.heiefore taxpayers ought to mei:. ber that their taxes must be paid ev^ry year.

No county order will be paid to any person owing delinquent tax. As the Boad Tax is all due with ihe first installment, Road Receipts must be presented on or before the third Monday in April, or they will not, be received. B'or the collection of which I may be found »t. my office in Terre Hautf, as directed by Jaw. Pay your taxes pioinptiy and av^id costs.

JAMKS M. NANKEY, Treasurer Vigo County.

December 15,1S75

GRAND

Real Estate Distribution!

AT ATCHIXSOX, IiS.. Kar. 28, '76. 2,G61 Pie-es of Property valued at 3770,800! Capital Sti.ck, 81,000,000. Shares, $5

Knch,

Kansas Land and Emigrant .Association,

(An organization composed of capitalists and bu iness men, citizens of Kansas, incorported by tne authority of the State, lor the purpose of encourafiing emigration,) will distribute to its are holders, on March 39,1S76,2,664 Pieces of Property, consisting of ELEGANT BRICK and

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$50.00 TO $75,000.00 EACH.

Ever Share, wherever or by whomsoever held, will be equal 1/ represented In the distribution, ana be entitled to any one piece awarded to the same.

JOHN M. PRICE,

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