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day, and finally found his efforts crowned wit
success. The child vet got well.

Doctor returned, taking with him the little gir
= who had been almost mracu,ousy saved iron
r death. When he reached the door some inci
c were Just bringing out two co..i,is to be paclt
on the hearse which stood in the street 'rh,
Doctor and his protcgc uscenied the stairs
{ entered the parior und proceeded to qnothu
room. without seeing anybody or hearing all,
NOISE. y deathly silence peryaded thc house
Eat Esther IL the greatest I! ;in l;:.neu oHc.
a door and led the wa tJ tie rooin where sh,
and her twelve sisters had slept together. The
, Goor was open, but four beds alone occupied
the room, and two OF these were enytv. Or
The others lay two Of the fair haired twins. arl
by their side stood Mad. Dumergue luokinr %
! them as if stuplied. Esther with an undefncC
dread Of something frighttul rushed up to hel
mother and tire" her arms around her. Du
as soon as Madame Domsrrue saw her. sht
threw Eur from her, thea selzel her again and
would have torn her to pieces ifthc Doctor had
not snatched her from her grasp. As it was, the
poor child face was all scratched ana BLOODY
ami she tainted almost immcdIllely.
"Why do you bring her here % cried Mad
anne Domergue, "She is the cause o.. all NV
mttortuue. I here lies the only two have
left. Take the little demon away or will kill
her in spite Of youw
Almost frozen with horror, the doctor an
swcred not word, but bore the lnsenslble and
bleeding child from the room, out Of the house.
=. ar1 r'-t-L iIer IN carriage which he saw pas
sing and stopped. lie ordered the coacnnln
to drive to an obscure little street where lived
III the most humble manner, the Drs. venerable
mother. She received the unhappy chid, gave
her all necessary rc..e., and Installed her IN
small room near her own.
1t was as Madame Domergue had said in
three weeks ten .. her llull2ed daughters had
fallen victims to the terrible dlsease, ana the
day after the Doctors SECOND visit the other
two died, and were buried Ike their sl-'e.s. 4
few day more and the mother herself followed,
and =" hen the Doctor hearing Of it, returned,
he found that house, once so noisy with vounr
voices and 50 tull oi the joy and pride of Il
! large family, silent as tlc tomb, occupied only
! by a prematurely old mln, left alone in the
world and PROSTATE "Li hS grief. \ few
months afterwards, Mr.. Domergue died in hope
less insanity.
! Esther, brought up under the motherly care
Of Madame Soulie, budded into womanhood as
lovely young creature as could possibly be
seen. When in her eighteenth year she be-
came the wife Vi the Dr.. VIII, was low begin
nlng 10 be known in the world, and she made
her appearance IN t..e saloons of Paris and
was .yr yc..is ,he mos: admired wo,nln OF the
time. she became the mother Of five children
four sons aai one daughter whom she
brought up and CGu-itcd to be an honor to her
sell and ornaments ~ me society in winch they
.NCI. Dr. SOu.!c became in time one ot the
physicians OF the court Of LoU.s NNI, and
when the political troubles began to Urcui out
he, unfortunately, wrote pamphlet in favor %.
the court. ana thus became u marked man. In
the fail oi lEr, al three o'clock one morning,
the people ;Olclbly entered Dr. Soulle's house,
dragged him and his two eldest sons from their
beds, and IN spite OF the prayers and entreaties
Of the poor wife and mother, carried them off
1t was nearly week before Madame Soulle
could hear any news Of her loved ones, and
then-they had already been dead four DAYS
the gulllotine had done its work for them
Madame Soullc claspel her three remaining
children IN her arms, two boys of seventeen |
and eighteen, and 4 girl Of fifteen years Of ace
But as she stroined them to her in the agony of
her grle, fresh trouble was preparing ior her |
Her sons vowed within themselves to revenge |
the Aurdcr Of their father and brothers. it .
would take too long to narrate all the clrcum
stances which followed: but these two young .
men placed themselves at the head Of Il CON
piracy against the government. and one year
precisely from the day on winch she had learn
boys, Madame Soulie received shor: note, as
follows:
Coyc,rtGrp,p T}nrsdov nam
Mo,l,er dear motbrr-Iva haya conSTiroJ
AGAINST the covernment-we have been hatr,v.
ci and arc to die tomnrrow Rear II hravoi,,
no,l,.r we die for onr father and orr bra,ho,,
w.
N"i Ia io"'
What wordS can describe the despair Of that
poor mother! Al hrst she prayed God to take
ner HE or 2r reason. But array OF hope dawn
ed upon her. 'ole might, perhaps save her
boys the tribunal which had condemned them
could not be deaf to mothers prayer--a mo-
hers despair. But alas Madame Sou!e little
>new the men upon whose compassion she
counted. In vain she suppcaied, IN vain she
prayed they ended by refusing 70 listen to her
my longer. She did all that possibly could be
lone to save her boys from death; she even
lfter the example of Madame Chalals, tried to
'nbe the executioncrs. But they accepted her I
money and then betrayed her. Finding all her .
lorts useless, she tried to resign herself, and {
determined, as she could not obtain her sons
ives, at least to get permission to aid them to :
lie. This was with great difficulty granted ,
Ter but nj last she received IT, and "A cOuDle of