The Red Cloud chief., 1881-12-01

tho people. Now. II YOU r true TO
your principles aud no Jesui, in Dis
guise. you will lend me = hundred
franco"
Saying this the female held gu, her
paw and glanced menacingly at the
editor. Fieiin hesitsted a moment;
then asked her for her address. When
this had been given him he drew ahun
dred-franc note from his purse and
handed il 10 her without a word. The
crazy creature was evidently surprised
al getting her monsy 50 easily. and her
fingers ciutched the paper g-eediiy.
Mind, I-daa't want to know what
you are going 10 do with the moner."
observed Fielin. with prudence. .'You
have asked me for a hundred francs.
and I give them, that's all"
II shall not disgrace your confidence.
citizen" answered Madame follalier.
and she leftthe ogicc with somewhat sus-
picious haste. II she had been going
for a dinner, she could not have stepped
faster.
But she was hardly gone when Fielin
touched . hand-bell aud summoned n
OF his clerks. Take this 70 Martin
he whispered, "and have the roman
watched; she saws she means mischief
to the Finance Minister. gave her a
hundred francs which must go To my
account" The clerk. "A beetle-browed
person, with c%uriou,ly sharp eyes. wink
ed and withdrew.
Now the man Martin, TO whom
Fielin's clerk was going on the above
errand, was not a member Of any Bevo-
%lutionary Mutual Espionage Associa-
ton, but simply a head center among
the secret agents Of the Prefecture de
Police. He served as Intermediary be-
tween the Prefecture and those private
spies or inforiners, who, for different
reasons. could not correspond directly
with that Institution. He was by trade
a publican. and ANYBODY could enter
his shop, whisper To him over his pew
ter counter. or talk to him in his back
parior. without mourning the suspicion
Of holding intercourse with a mouchard.
Martin himself never went To the Pre-
lecture. He communicated with the
chiefs of the political section of the
police either By letter orthrouch a man
who called occasionally at his shop, and
was supposed TO be a commercial travel
er in the wine trade. A very downy
person was NJ. Martin.
The result of the clerks visit to this
gentleman was that Madame Follaiier
Was watched, and. being found one day
lurking near the Finance Ministers
office, was apprehended and clapped
quietly into IN asylum. The miserable
creature shrieked and stormed, de-
pu.pltur o.. lao .,uhiinlu srio1 in .rlar
that she might make q rumpus in the
Assize Court; but she had not the
faintest suspicion that it was Blaise
Fielin who had betrayed her. None
among his many dupes did suspect this
able editor. In due time Fielin him.
self appeared before the Correctional
Court, made a sensational speech TO his
Judges, and was sentenced TO n fine Of
5000 I. aud a years imprisonment. The
punishment seemed heavy, and Ficlin
left the court amidst u sympathizing
throng OF acGuaintances who vowed
that the oppressed of all nations would
never forget the suiferin9she was 4
fully going to endure for their sakes.
In France, political prisoners are not
conducted to prison Immediately after
sentence, as in England; they are al
lowed a few DAYS to make their ar
rangements, and they receive a notice
from the Procurator as to the date when
they must surrender. In the interval
between his sentence and the receipt
of his notice Blaise Fielin conducted his
Iongenr rs usual. avoiding articles
that might draw down on MIN q new
prosecution. but always writing in such
wise rs to bring the desperate OF all
classes and nations 10 Law their grew
ance before him. He received crowds
of visitors who brought him tales of
aifliction and oppression. some of which
he published; and many important
secrets concerning the plans of con-
spirators were cOnfided to his honor.
How could his visitors suspect q man
who was always ready (though poor.
as il was believed) to give aims to
revolutionistS needier than himself, and
who had actually been sentenced to q
harsh fine and Imprisonment for the
good cause? Blaise Fielin was Ell.
rolled in several secret societies, one of
which had for its object the manufact-
ure of explosive shells. and he freely
allowed his newspaper to be used for
CituucStiuC Stouu III ~ pIicE
between rcvolutionistS who were scat
tered abroad, and who could not always
correspond by post. All this time
Martin, the publican, found plenty of
work. He and the commercial traveller
in the wine trade were often closeted
together, and the latter was enabled to
keep the Prefecture de Police amply
supplied with information which came
to HIM from the Office of the Fcngeur.
The day arrived when Blaise Fielin
received his notice to surrender. The
guileleSs Public Prosecutor who sent it
was. like the Judges who had sentenced
the prisoner. fully persuaded that Fielin
was a 6OnG-6de criminal. and they
would have been not too well pleased,
perhaps. il they could have seen how
this gentleman was dealt with by the
authorities. As q preliminary to incar-
ceration Fielin had lot his chambers in
the Rue de Rivoli; he had accepted a
testimonial from some poor. misguided
wretcheS who believed in his honesty,
and who had subscribed to pay his fine
of goo; and he had given n modest
breakfast at which he introduced to his
guests "a po!yglot conclave of fanatics
and simpletons) the new editor OF the
Ten0eur. n man named Vuileux, who
was likewise known to Martin the pub
lican. After this Fielin went to the
Prefecture. escorted by a troop of ad-
miring friends, whose hands he sadly
but cordially shook as he crossed the
threshold of the gloomy building. and
the friends left him, saying to one an
other: "He is n true man. that Fielin."
The same evening. after q private
conversation with one of the chiefs
of the Prefecture, by whom certain
moneys were paid him. Blaize
Fielin, slightly disguised. might have
been seer taking train at the Care du
Nord, en- route for st. Petersburg.
whittier he was being sent on a conf
dental police mission. The delusion
as to his Imprisonment was so well
maintained, however, that many of
Fielin's friends could have sworn for a
certainty that he was in jail. They re-
ceived letters from him bearing the
stamp of the prison of Mazas; and once
a month, when the prisoner was al
lowed to receive visits, they were ad-
mitted to see him through a grating.
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