Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-11-04

then asked her Tor her address. When
this had been given him he drew hun
dred-frauc note from his purse and
handed IL to her without word. The
crazy creature was evidently surprise d
at getting her money so easily, and her
fingers clutched the paper groedily.
"Mind, don't want to know what
you are going to do with the money!"
observed FieIin, with prudence. "You
have asked me for n hundred francs,
and give them, that's ALL"
IL shall no, disgrace your confidence,
citizen" answered Madame Follalier,
and she left the Office with somewhat sus-
picious haste. II she had been going
for dinner, sio could not have stopped
faster.
But she was hardly gone when Fielin
touched hand-bell and summoned one
of his clerks. Take this to Martin, {"
he whispered, "and have the woman
watched; she saws she means mischief
to the Finance Minister. gave her n
hundred francs which must go TO my
account" The clerk, n bectle-b -browed
person, with curiously sharp eyes, wink
ed and Withdrew. tfA.
Now the man Martin, to whom
Fielin's clerk was going on the above
errand, was not member of any Revo-
lutonary Mutual Espionage Associa-
tion, but simply head center among
the secret agents of the Prefecture dc
Police. He served as intermediary be-
tween the Prefecture and those private
spies or informers, who, for different
reasons, could not correspond directly
with that institution. He was by trade
n publican, and anybody could enter
his shop, whisper to him over lis pew
ter counter, or talk to him in his back
parlor, without incurriDg the suspicion
of holding intercourse with q mouchard.
Martin himself never went to the Pre-
lecture, He communicated with the
chiefs of the political section of the
police either by letter or through man
who called occasionally at his shop, and
was supposed TO be commercial travel
er in the wine trade. A very downy
person was M. Martin.
The result of the clerks visit to this
gentleman was that Madame Follalier
was watched, and, being found one day
lurking near the Finance ministers $
office, was apprehended and clapped
quietly into an asylum. The miserable
creature shrieked and stormed. de-
manding to be publicly tried in order
that she might make 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 sensational speech to his
Judges, and was sentenced to fine of
5000 f. and years imprisonment. The
punishment seemed heavy, and Fielin
left the court amidst n sympathizing
throng of acquaintances who vowed
that the oppressed of all nations would
never forget the suflerines he was man
fully going to endure for their sakes.
In France, political prisoners are not
conducted to prison Immediately after
sentence, rs in England; they are al
lowed few days to make their ar
rangements. and they receive 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
Pengeur as usual, avoiding articles
that might draw down on him new
prosecution, but always writing in such
wise rs to bring the desperate OF all
classes and nations to lay their griev-
ance before him. He received crowds
of visitors who brought him tales of
aIlliction and oppression, some of which
he published; and many important
secrets concerning the plans of con-
spirators were coniided to his honor.
How could his visitors suspect q man
who was always ready (though poor.
as it was believed) to give aims to
revolutionists needier than himself, and
who had actually been sentenced to a
harsh fine and imprisonment for the
good causep Blaise Fielin was en-
rolled in several secret societies, one of
which had for its object the manulact-
ure OF explosive shells, and he freely
allowed his newspaper to be used for
ctandestine correspondence in cypher
between revolutionists who We're scat.
tered abroad, and who could not always
correspond by post. All this time
Martin, the publican, found plenty ol
work. He and the commercial traveller
in the wine trade were often closeted
together, and the latter was enabled tu
keep the Prefecture de Police amply
supplied with information which came
to HIM from the Office of the Vengear.
The day arrived when Blaise Fielin
received his notice to surrender. The
guileless Public Prosecutor who sent il
was, like the judges who had sentenced
the prisoner, fully pt 'uaded that Fielir
was a bona-fde criii NAL, and they
would have been not &c well pleased
perhaps, if they could have seen how
this gentleman was dealt with by the
authorities. AS preliminary to incar
ccration Fielin had let his chambers in
the Rue de Rivoli; he had accepted {
testimonial from some poor, misguided
wretches who believed in his honesty,
and who had subscribed to pay his fine
of f20O; and he had given q modest
breakfast at which he introduced to hi
guests Ga polyglot conclave OF fanatic;
and simpletons) the new editor OF thu
pengeur. man named Vuileux, wht
was likewise known to Martin the pub
lican. After this Fielin went to tn,
Prefecture, escorted by troop of ad
miring friends, whose hands he sadl,
but cordially shook as he crossed tn,
threshold of the gloomy building, ant
the friends left him, saying to one an
other: g He is true man, that Fielin.
The same evening, after privat
conversation with one of the chief
of the Prefecture, by whom certain
moneys were paid him, Blaiz
Fielin, slightly disguised, might hav
been seen taking train at the Care d
Nord, en- route for st. Petersburg
whittier he was being sent on n conf
dental police mission. The delusiol
MS to his Imprisonment was so we
maintained, however, that many c
Fielin's friends could have sworn for
certainty that he was in jail. They re
ceived letters from him bearing tn
stamp of the prison of Mazas; and one
a month, when the prisoner was a
lowed to receive visits, they were ad
mitted TO see him through grating
Fielin even complained that his incal
ceration was being rendered UNUSUAL
rigorous. He was not allowed TO writ
for his newspaper, he said; he was su
fering from bronchitis, and yet tn
doctor would not put him in the iniirn
airy. These assertions naturally tende
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