Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-03-26

the citadel. and they rushed in and de-
Iivered the youth. more dead than alive,
and took the culprits into custody.
That same evening. Lecoq and his sou
waited on NJ. de la Reynie, to whom the
former made respectful bow. saying,
please your excelency, have the hon
owe two hundred lives"
"How so?'
"Because to hin is due the capture of
the band of ssssssins who decimsted
the youth of Paris" replied the proud
father.
Somewhat later ia the evening NJ, de
la Reynie went to Versailles, where he
was complimented by his majesty on this
brilliant achievement. Nor did the lieu
tenant of police neglect this occasion Of
recommending Lecoq aud his son to his
majesty, who bestowed upon them solid
marks Of royal munifcence.
Lady Guildford's associates were soon
condemned and executed; but her lady
ship. not being considered an ordinary
criminal, had been placed in the Bastile
to await his majesty's pleasure. So in>
tense was th: degree OF curiosity this ad-
ventures, as the chief and handspring o:
the band Of assassins. had awakened in
the mind Of Louis XIVth and his court,
that an inquest was set on foot, with a
view to raise the veil that shrouded her
origin and former life. For nobody
doubted but what the title Of Lady
GuiIdford was mere assumption. and
that the old crone's story was an art
fully concocted romance.
Lady Guildlord had vegetated but
few days 10 one of the dungeons of the
BAstile, where she was strictly watched.
vainIy rumiuating on some means OF es.
Gaping the doom that inevitably awaited
her, when one evening the governor en-.
tered her CELL followed by a military es
cort. and attended by an individual dres-
sed in black, whom she at once recogni
sed as a police officer. The wretched
woman. whose long familiarity with
scenes of bIoodshed had not rendered her
proof against the natural instinct of self
preservation, was now ready TO faint that
her last hour was come. She was, how
ever, led off by the man in black. and af.
ter crossing the drawbridge, was helped
into coach by her silent companion,
who took his seat beside her. The car.
riage then crossed through Paris. went
along the quays, reached the Champs
Elysees, and left town in the direction of
Chaillot, and rolled along the high road
to Versailles.
Whittier was she going? What could
be the meaning OF such a journey in the
middle of the night in company with this
silent companion in sable clothes These
were SO many enigmas she vainly strove
to solve. However, at the end of cou-
pie Of hours after leaving the Bastile. the
adventures, who expected she was being
led to execution, or at best, TO some pris-
on where Sue would be shut up for life,
was pleasantly surprised. when the car
riage stopped, at being handed out by a
gentlemen usher, who showed her up a
grand staircase, and led her through a
suite OF sumptuous apartments, till they
reached door richly ornamented with
gilt mouldings, which was Immediately
thrown open to admit her. She now en-
tered a splendid sitting room, where
burnt cheerful fire in vast chimney
and which was furnished with degree
of luxury, that precluded the possibility
OF its belonging to a stale prison.
Lady Guildford thought she must be
dreaming. Scarcely had the gentleman
usher bid her take seat by the 6reside,
when in walked three personages. dres'
sed very simply,-two of them were dis
guised as mouks,-but evidently belong
ing to the court; indeed, at the first
glance, she RI cognized in one of the N the
Chevalier de Lorraine, in another the
Marquis D'Efi4t, and in the third. mon.
sieur, the kings own brother. How and
Why she was introduced into the pres.
ence OF prince OF the blood royal, must
now be briefly explained.
The romantic adventures of young
Wide awake bad been related one even
ing by the king to private circle at
Madame de Aiontespan's, when some one
inquired what could be the motives OF
the blood thirsty heroine to allure SO
many young men to destruction His
majesty replied that all that had hitherto
been elected from the strictest researches
amounted to these lew facts: tha: her
Iadyship (if such indeed she might be
STYLED was affiliated to a band of snug
glrrs, who undertook to furnish German
scientific men with the heads requisite for
the study Of mysterious science. that
was just struggling into notice, beyond
t"e Rhine. The bodies were disposed Of
to medical students for the purpose oi
dissection. The unhappy victims to this
hideous trafic-to which the malefactors.
OF course. added the robbery Of any val.
liable articles found on the bodies-were
j decoyed into this modern Tower of Nesle
by the officious advances OF the old
duenna, and the allurements of Lady
Guildrord. Once within the meshes o.
this dangerous syren. they we're irretriev-
ably lost; her Establishments were the
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