Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1860-01-04


some revelations respecting movements
in La Vendce, always the stronghold Of
the Bourbon party, and the conclusion
Was rapidly jumped at, that Picaud was
an agent for the west and couth, that
bis trade WAS only pretence, and that
he really was gentleman Of Lunguedoc.
The result was that Picaud was secretly
arrested and removed with 50 mitch mys-
terry. that except BY tOupian and his
friends, his fate was unknown.
This II viii be remembered, was in
1907. Years rolled on, and in 1914,
the star If Napoleon ceased 10 be in the
ascendant. The imperial government
fell, and there was general clearance
Of State prlsUncrs. From the Castle Of
Fcnestrellc there tottered forth a man
yet young--as Time counts but bow
ed by care, grief, captivity, and despair.
He seemed to have lived half a century
in seven years, aud when he looked in-
to a mirror, in petty inn in the village
Of Fenestrelle, could not recognize him
self.
IN prison this man had merely ans
wered to a numbcr--for names were lost
in that hard thraldom. lie had latter.
ly been assigned as a domestic to an.
other prisoner, Milanese ecclesiastic,
the fable Faria, Of the novel,) who,
indignant at his relatives not having ta-
ken any steps to obtainh bis liberation,
literally died Of a broken heart on the
4th of January, 1914, leaving will, by
which he bequeathed his vast fortune to
his attendant-Athe Francois Picaud, Of
shs EcEner part.af snis s.rry, though be
was mentioned, ~ iegatee, BY gie nane
of Joseph LncheF The bAyasst sliica
'sas securely invested ii IHah0drs. am.
sterdam and London, amounted to sew
en- million frrnces, and there were also
three millions more In coined money of
various nations. as well as a concealed
treasure oflmmense value, in diamonds.
Luchcr's release from prison took place
three months after the death Of the Iial-
ian testator. It was not until ten
months later that he returned to Paris,
eight years after he was removed from
t to prison, and, though he looked con-
siderably older, was now only thirty
Iour years OF age.
Taking up his residence, as stfahger'
md with a changed name and aspect, in
Quarter Saint Opportun& hucher
learned what had occurred in
bis absence. 1t amounted to this: that
iu February, 1907, there had disappear
cred one Francois Picaud, q young
iradesmans, who was about marrying a
girl that no one was able
10 discover whittier be had gone that
his intended, Marguerite de- Yigoroux
the Mercedes of Dumas romance J
for her lost lover for twd Years
and then married the coGee-housc keep.
or, Lonpin, and that this mar, enriched
BY bet wealth. now possessed one of the
best-appoinieiand Most frequented catcS
in Paris The names of IOupiah'S two
friends had been forgotten in eight
years, but some one remarked that a
,ertain Antoine Allut. who had been in.
innate with Loupian at the time of ri
,aud's disappearance was acquainted With
hem. Allut had retired to Nismes, bis
Next day pustchaise,
preceded by courticr who, paid like
prince, few rather than rolled along the
'Oad To Lyons. Thence, alOnside the
Rhoie. by the Marscilles road, which it
quilted at the bridge Of St. Esprit, -
There an Italian abbe alightsd for the
irst time from the commencenien Of the
Quincy.
Reaching Nismes, the Able Baldiui,
is tic Was called ltHC Able Dusoni Of
he rcmance,l soon placed himself III
personal communication With Allut. and,
old him that in prison at Naples, 10
ISi1, he bad become acquainted with
,ne Francois Picaud, who died pardon
ing those who had caused his misfortunes
lnd had left diamond worth $4,000
irancs, the bequest Of a rich Englishman
who he (thc Abbe) vas to present 10
whoever could relats Che circumstances
il bis being denounced in 1907, espe-
sally believing that Antoine Allnt
could relate the circumstances ofhis be-
ing denounced in 1907 especially bs.
Loving that Antoine AllOt could give
ihS information. What followed Is pre-.
Oisoly what Dumas has rented q Cad.