Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1876 — Page 3

CHAPTER XIV.

MOST TAXEBtST.

In the casemate* of the Mont Valerien fortress there is that subdued murmur and gemeral air of keen expectancy which the Parisians have learned to interpret all too surAy.

Another desperate effort I# to be made to shake off the daily narrowing circle of Iron and fire that isolates the city. Huddied close together, softening the frozen ground by the heat of thoir bodies, they who are to make—or, at least, support— this linal attempt, seem to hope little from all 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 finer material Bpoilt 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 officers, who listened fearfully to the unit to rings of incipient mutiny, when a tall, lean, sunken-eyed citizen-sol-dier, who had made a species of tent of his uniform c:ip't«, arid was filling it with tobacco-smoke, uskorf, suddenly, '"What haa-Jbccomc of Lagardei" "Present," said I'.ugene, suddenly appearing from t.he low, ramshackle shod that served aw a. moii'di. "Oh, the Captain iir.n been asking for you," said iuiolln deiVt.dMr, who.se voice and feature:* preei-.inted his identity with the democrat, ("In'jn "Let him

COI:I»

gene, cooliy Ktr-i

MAy,

ri'.r on the

ground in the si, •!,*.'of l.'io cuseniale wall. "And

V.I::,

Zabrinrfki, v. hy v. -ro

you making iii.ji.i. ii':i as to my whereabouts?" "Only wMii'r'! S k".,w what was ging on down in r.',n. Tiicy tell us nothing now, emtio them! "Wf II, tHey are talking of an in town."

A low curst' 1'ri!e from tlie men.

and then, a }"•."'?—a capitulation)

and the l.hla:is on Ihe lioillt'Viu ds, and Alsace siirreitd"!• 1! 1 i-oe it :.!!!" Sfiid Choquard, in a f«ne of siinprewMMl rage.

Zabrinski, Ciioi|Uai".l, iiiii! Kugene tell to whispering gloomily, wiiile others carried the rumor of the armistice—it. was but a rumor then— to comrades in other angles of he fori.

The low-toned conference was interrupted by a voice crying in the dusk, "Is Lagarde hack'/"

Lagurde ruse slowly, knocked the ashos out of his pipe, mid confronted hid Captain—Cleim ,i! I.i.isrobert. "Ay, woii ('/*, liens he is."

Do Lols.'^lr i-! Ix-eknned, and lo ret.her they mounted the n!.io .-tops that led to the curtain of m- [or!m

•'Lagarde," said Clement, abruptly, "I

liave done much foi slight return now." "One always does for an net of charity," said Eugene, with a sneer,

Clement hesitated, and said frankly, as though he could discover no oMior way of expressing himself, "Von hav ».ken of documents in your ]io-so-

ion

that nearly

concern the Conn I de Chayolles' latnily." "Well?" said Kugene, 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 prico do you put upon them?"

Eugene started, and glanced more narrowly at. De iJoisrobert. llo appeared I reassured by the rapid survey, and answered, "They are not for sale, nam Capitaine." "Nonsense everything is for sale." "Yo'i have avswer," said Kuger.e, •beginnim:'

to tie.

A vague and

"Lagarde, 1 warn you not to trifle with me 1 must have those papers." Between two bars of tin* "Rhin-Allo-mand" Lugo no returned, "Muxt is a portentous inoiiosy 1!Me, 1 intend to keep them, M. do Lui.MO.iort." "That is your last word.'"

Clement had resumed his calm decision

often-dimmed

moon made

the bayonets of Ducrot's division glitter fitfully in the darkness. T'..o men looked steadily out on tho plain before them. "Those are masses moving down on Suresnes," said ono, pointing

to tho littlo

town at the foot of Mont Valerien. "The enemy, .of course,"-observed another officer.

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

He walked away rapidly toward* tho Commandant's oltices. Ills companions looked after him, laughing uiul shrugging their shoulders. "Do Boisrobel t's na[f," 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. He had found the Commandant—a grocer but recently invested with military functions—in a state of mental confusion bordering oil lunacy, and had easily obtained all the authority he wanted.

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

°°d

Z"b"°5V'

-xi I Choquard, in a whisper. "We know the troops down I

there

perfectly well, hiftymen! They'll" sweep us away with one volley! Stoically, but sullenly, the young lieutenant placed himself at the head of the little column, and the word was given. "March!"

A lively lino fire opened to the right as the men disappeared. 1 he reneh were advancing, and. as it had always happened from the beginning of the war, the Prus. sians had discovered them some hours before the intended surprise could be ef-

fliMe save the distant roll «f musketry from the plains to the rigfowhtre the battle wu raging.

Tfwyn suddenly, nearer, at thv row of the Hfll, volleyB from Chawepoto and needle-'gxms rang through the air. There were epikk flashes during some ten inflate then the firing slackened, dwindled into a dribble of isolated shots. Then aH was still.

In a quarter of an hour, an orderly reported to De Boisrobert. "A remnant of the reconnoitring party 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 from that rush for life to the shelter of the Valerien guns. Foremost of the small remaining group were Choquard and Zabrinski. "Forty-five dead, mm Capit.ainr." said tho

former,

ant. The

ami iind me," snid Eu-

corps

in possession

Suresnes

is Bavarian, 1:1th Regiment." "Heavy loss—heavy loss!" said Clement, assuming a doleful air.

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

The sokiiers retired. Choquard lingered behind, and handing a torn piece of carI touehe-paper to Clement, said, abruptly, "Private Lagarde—shot in tlio breast— I asked me to deliver this to M. le Capitaine." I Traced in blood, with a bayonet point, were the words— "Lost your stake on the red. My ono dear friend has tho papers, and wil-1 give them up to no ono."

Clement was furious—cursed himself, the dead man, fate, and that supreme deity of godless gamesters like himself—luck,

armistice His rage would perhaps have cooled down into something like fear, had he boon able to hear the few muttered v.-urds that passed between the men who had just left his presence. "This crowns the reckoning," said Choquard. "Spy, cheat, craven, and now assassin!" hissed Zabrinski.

"It

must be a terrible vengeance now. Our lay is dawning, lie shall be tho tint creditor disposed of." "The first?" "Tho first!"

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

CHAPTKR XV.

A BHAPPARITION.

The battle has been fought and won—

wliich

you, and 1 expect a

side, the men at Mont Valerien

(.an on]y

surmise. They are not loqua-

clous respecting the event their surmises are not cheerful. Experience has taught them to be modest in such conjectures. So their child' uncertainty ia as to tho direction in which the French have retreated the number of their dead, the captured cannon, etc. That, they have retreated— that Franco has lost another battle—the National Guards make not a moment's doubt. I The men were sleeping in the casemates, wearied of the excitement, careless of tho event, only eager to get some hours of warmth and sleep. On the curtain, ten vague figures of sentinels wero 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 oflicer who had chanced to be reconnoitering in that direction.

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

of attitude. "That is mvlast word/" Kugene echoed adding, cotih-iiintuonsly, "Oh, your scowl is useless! We are in the .-ame boat. You I cannot founder me alone." ••Can't 1/ Wait!" ieturned Clement, tranquilly.

And ho waited silently, with eyes fixed upon a small, dark mass, that seemed verI itably to be coming nearer to the fort. It

At this juncture, one of the oflicers on duty touched the Captain on the shoulder. "Look there. I)e Boisrobert our troops are deploying to the right."

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

appeared to crawl, halting at moments, as though to reBt or reconnoitre—then o«ntinned it's onward march, slowly and cauI tiow-ly. "Hang it!" said Choquard, after a quarI ter of an hour's watching—"it is unmistakably a man! There, I saw a white face in tho moonlight! I wish Diana would turn up the gas once 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 and within hailing distance, too."

The figure was now close to the grassgrown slope of the curtain. "Qiu vivef" cried Choquard, shouldering his breech-loader. "La Franca/" answered a faint, hesitating voice—"5th 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 tho scene. "Challenge again," eaid he.

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

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

1 bad ri.ta fa lb. fltful moon-

'TSS' you.- ,.»rty doun to %K c,j.d. "Wher, i. an .nU-ancl I render outhouses," said Clement, to the can't escalade this wall lieutenant, "and ascertain the nature of —jt

A group of oflicers had collected and "More liker a ghost, Captain!" stared blank astonishment on hearing I At these

c™d

the movements made by those masses «py. Choquard! hire!—you, tne directly, operating on tho edge of the village. See "Pardon, mm Capitame! suppose his anti„,v holnr.r" gwer waa right?" "I thought so," muttered Lagarde, be- "Confound^ your suppositions! Fire, I

heard.

»Tt is wanton slaughter," said Choquard, The figure leaped madly towards the wall, 1 springing up at its steep slope, grazing arms and knees, catching at tufts of glass

«,.T^irectlv

words,

this order given. Clement said, briefly, but the sentinel obeyed at last. A shot "Bv order of the Commandant." was

Clement rushed forward,

tnd nettles. Clement seized 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 outstretched, the butt-ends of muskets tendered and by this means

j#ctej the stranger climired over the parapet, and Clement returned to the canteen, with a stood before the olficers. „rim smile on his lips. A dangerous ally Clement turned away, pulled his kepi was disposed of. He should himself con-1 over his forehead, and raised the collar of duct a party to pick up the dead—and on his long military surtout. one of those corpses the precious docu- "Who are you, sir?" said the commandments would bo found! antjsternly.

During half &a tour uothiPg was au- •'Captain, 5th Chasseurs d'Afrique.

The officers smiled. The stranger was almost in tatters. The embroidery waa torn from his coat the buttons were absent. Where the cavalry Jacket opened, a coarse trooper's shirt, begrimed and torn, was visible. "How came you here?" •1 have been sick. I bare only just succeeded in passing through the enemy's lines." "Sick—where?"

toAt

laconically,—"and the lieuten

Versailles."

The commandant's face darkened and Clement said, angrily, "The rascal is 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 oE him!" "A prisoner, sir! I am a French oflicer. My name ia 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 Fraia-isque—for it was he—put his hand to his side, and made astride toward the group of oflicers.

He was puliod away by the guard and the commandant said, abruptly. "Make the rascal's hands and feet fast, and tako him to the guard-house. He must 1)8 transferred to the colls to-morrow."

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

Only Choquard whispered to "nim as he passod, "Courage! you'll have a witness for you." "We have got one of their most audacious spies," said tlio 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.

TI1E OAFK 01? THIS TIIIIKK BLIND MEX

A fev day* after the events narrated in tho foregoing chapter, the bleak comer house where Heine had taken shelter was subjected to a very close and patient scrutiny during an entire melancholy and inisty afternoon.

Tho watcher presented the same outward peculiar characteristics as that dubious workman whom we have soen drink a chcqrine with Eugene, near tho Place de la Bastile. The same small, sus-piciously-white hands, tho same educated moustache, the same air of eleganco_ imparled to that most ungraceful of national garments—the blouse in short, the samo individual—M. Clement de Boisrobert—• seeking profitable privacy under tho livery and in tho haunts of labor. He waa not a clumsy spy. He slouched his cap very slightly he woro no wig, and left his complexion in its normal condition of delicacy and whiteness, lie studied tho corner house carelessly, with the aim lest) air of a street rowdy. But, nevertheless, the paoplo 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 tlio same fashion as himself, issued from the povle rochnre, and made toward a side 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 tho stranger's address but tho latter, hearing foot'falls,in

his

rear, stopped

short suddenly, and turned round. There was no help for it. Recognition was inevitable. "Indeed, Morvale! Is that you?" c~daimed Clement, rather disconcerted, but hastily resigning himself to the contretemps. "Who is it Knows my name?" said Mervftle, coining close. Then, recognizing Clement, he added, "Do Boisrobert! What's the meaning of this masquerade?" "I might answer, Norman fashion, by the samo question. But here's iny reason. I was requested by a comrade, shot in tho last alfair, to find out his relatives, living in this quarter, and save them, 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 BoisroberW" "Is that all?" said Clement, lighting a cigar. "All! 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 that kind of thing. So I adopted the blouse and pipe of the Proletariat. And, hang it! I find it just as amusing as tho Jockey Club!" "I dare say—paying diurnal visits in that direction," said Clement, coughing, and pointing to the house Mervale had just left. "For I suppose that's the shrine —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. Let us turn into this cafe here, and I'll tell you some things that wid make thp 'divinity' appear adorable, even in your jaundiced Parisian sight."

They entered the cafe of the "Three Blind Men." It is famous in the quarter. Not a Bohemian has passed through Paris without leaving trace of his passage on Its walls, in the shape of rough sketches, caricatures, and quatrains not a workman of •'decided" opinion but has quaffed its thin sour beer at the rate of two sous a glass. Conversation must be tho jpeat charm of the osiubiishnii-nt for, to judgo from appoiir.iuccs, it would owe nothing of its o. l-jb' '.'y lo cleanliness of tables, artistic I ,•.»••(,! v» j.f mie! and ctilings, or ci./I' VII iUt'rt. ..j !, i:\v-ed bj hi--lieC'O", .| it hid

H-R'.J 'T*iriiin~

or ,-u'wiTh" Fuincidcjuii Uurafcf the reasons she had to "atrust BtfLsvobert.

*The poor girl1*# last friend had ituft* doned her when met," said Mervale "an old Jew, who disappeared on the eve of the siege. She says be went into the provinces on private business. A haremscarum scapegrace of a brother turned up from time to time, but I never saw him. Well, you have h&d enough of my loveWell, you have

enough of my love-

say

Mervale had started to his feet. "What is to bo done?" lie said, ty"The police are very busy now an outbreak is apprehended, Tho house may be searcher! 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 Lagardq's company, would seem to her a very doubtful ally. Besides, I would bo court-mar-tialed and shot, perhaps, if my name transpired. But, liang it! wo can't let the poor girl fall into tho 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 cqfe. Ik ily increasing the Huffy piles of lint in the basket at her side. "Back already?" she said, startled, and foreseeing anew misfortune. "Dear Madenioisello Reine," said Mervale. softly, "I bring bad news. Don't tremble so it may not be true.'"

found

Tell me monsieur—toil me!" and sho Aif'$ XwltsSOlIl 1* stamped her foot impatiently. "I can bear

anything befter than this lingering breaking of evil fidin^s!" "Your brother is missing," said Mervale, still endeavoring to lesson the shock, "He has not been found—you are sure?" she said, caU-uing her ln-a-atli in brokou sob-5. "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 tlie other night."

He succeeded in a few momenta in allaying her first poignant fears and then proceeded to the attainment, of tho 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 wero to have them." "I was to have them!" murmured Mervale, astonished. "Yes here they are."

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 acciaent than fail in his mission of salvation, he promptly concealed his astonishment, and placed the small parcel ia 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 muttered on the staircase. "I suppose he trusted in the Anglo-Saxon proverbial readiness to help a political victim. It can only be that."

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she had a brother—was he ,in

the Garde National?" "Ay and at Mont Valerien." Clement assumed an earnest expression and tone. "My dear Mervale, the poor child is in terrible danger. Sho holds^ papers belonging to her brother their possession may cost her her liberty—perhaps her life. 1 know not the nature of the documents. But the brother prayed me, with tears in his eyes, to recover and burn them, if I could not pass them on to a comrade in whom he seemed to place implicit faith. I suspect, nay, I fool certain, they are the minutes of some revolutionary meeting—the plans of some Communistic plot!"

"It.is about Eugene, my brother, I know!

hereby given that the tax da-

J^OTICBJishereby

S given that the tax du

rhaDBodies about another person, so I'll 1 Ucate for the year 1875 Is now in my MarHprf 1 under ^yeareof »irl hflwitehed m« She is hands, Witt that am now ready to receive ilUUTieil aenJ stamp Simply say the girl bewitched me. Hne is

lbe

not a mere gnsette, be assured. I found table 8liow» the rate of taxation on each Br.H.U. fAUK, 6 K. Washington St., ir her a lady in the truest, purest sense of iuu of taxable property: anapollH, Ind. 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 fate 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 certaia that on her side, at least, it was pure and innocent. And she has expiated it, as though it wero a crime, by hourly and deep suffering.'" "What name did you say she bears?" "I mentioned no name," returned Mervale, unsuspiciously. "But there's no cause for ccneoahuont. It is Lagarde— Reine Lagarde." "That's odd!"' exclaimed Clement, drawing some papers from his pocket. ''That is the name of tha poor fellow 1 mentioned to you-'-the man who was shot at Mont Valerien." "What do you moan "You

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December 15, 1875.

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