The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-06-23

good deal improved. was asked If 7
had seen or heard of any one on tho
road. told of my purchasing the ami
NAL at the Camp los Perdidos, and 80
managed to escape and proceed on the
trip. do not suppose that the house,
keepers OF Rio had ever made better
bargain for their brasieros than in the
sacrifice of my stock. The mule was
converted into money the day after.
The purchaser no doubt thought I had
stolen him. returned to my lodgings
at night, resumed my clothing, but
awakened next morning with a burning
fever, which increased until it reached
insanity ITSELF --i-4=- s
con my restoration to reason found
the French Consul at my bedside. My
hotel experience was very much that OF
Gil Blas-my money, clothing and bag
gage had been absorbed by the ex-
penses of my illness. The Consul dis
regarded my remonstrances He had no
funds to pay my board. A vessel bound
for France was in port, and I was sent
on board. From the passengers heard
my own story in detail, except that no
suspicion of a foreigner had been awak-
ened. That was something for the fu-
ture.
81 had indeed nothing at this mo-
ment to remain for; but reserved pur.
pose to return at some future time when
all should have been forgotten, and carry
off le sac en- CUR 2)Iei,a de dione0sts.
1 made the passage to Havre. Soon
after my return to France I decided that
there would be little danger of blighting
the future of little Desire LIE Blanc, by
marrying millionaire, and so she has
been for several years Nine Desire LIE
Roux, with several little boys and girls
ready to inherit my wealth when I
should get it.
." Perhaps the same reason that in
duced the tall Indian to perform a des-
perate service has induced the Govern
ment- to employ me as law officer,
where there are sometimes desperate
men to be arrested. So here [ am.
@sAnd your Indian? Did you never
hear of him?
&c Never, from that day or night
Monsieur said our patron, do
you think you could find again your
TREASURED? Use
!" Z am certain
"tHave you never proposed to re-
turn?'
!" Repeatedly, but no one would
listen. One said, in your fierce cerebral
you have dreamed of that. No one
would encourage the search
'' What think you was the value Of
that sack?'
6" Monsieur, it was the accumulated
plunder Of twenty years, by good Judge
of diamonds. The sack must have
weighed seven pounds, of which there
was of course a very small part of the
precious stone"
"'And you think you could find the
place of deposit again?
"sI am certain
How much would such an expedi-
ton cost?'
"'I could make it for 20, 900 francs.
This would include the support of my
wife and children during my absence,
with the assurance of something to them
if I died on the expedition
Nothing more was said. The next
day the Patron said to me:
You heard the Conte of LIE Roux,
what do you think of it?'
8" 1t was plague"
You do not doubt its truth?'
"No, but the government has long
since traced that peasant and that mule.
1t has shot the peasant and dug the
ground for miles around the charcoal
camp
"'What, to find all those diamonds at
once? There they dig down mountains
for few Je crois ca, moi p
SO But do you think the search would
be worth 80, 900 francs?'
SSCNn ;s ~e l.-.~
vegetation. A man working in the
night, in fear of his life, would not re-
gard the surrounding objects with suf-
ficient care to identify them again. Re-
member that thirty years have elapsed
since the diamonds were hidden
"I think differently said the head of
the house. I know LIE Roux to be q
man of truth. He would not have
otherwise retained his employment so
long. If they were in the United States
the men who have invested their money
in search for the treasure of Capt. Kidd
would form a society for this search.
For me, I have resolved to invest 25, 900
francs in the enterprise. shall entrust
the execution of the enterprise to LIE
Roux. You will have charge of the
money. Prepare to accompany him.
''This decision took me completely by
surprise. It involved quitting Paris,
which was to me then as quitting the
world. it was a b0uleUersenaent totGLe
of all my plans and pleasures. was an
Industrious, accurate and honest clerk,
but then one is not always bending over
the ledger. There was the theater, the
Boulevards, La Bal, the restaurant, the
gay companions, La petite file ouVrtere
a quiez' z'eme Rue La Harpe.
s''Aha, said la Pere Renaud, tJe vous
connais bien, Mons. Paul; Uosts etes
bon garcon, naais o,tssi ua gdrcou biea
gai sur occasion, nest ce pas
s.Upon reflection I determined to dis
suade the patron, if possible, from the
adventure, and if 1 failed in this, to tell
him that for ME to go it was impossible.
''He yielded to my arguments, but L
have since thought it was because he
saw could not be persuaded to go, and
he had no one else so trustworthy.
Years afterward I lived some years in
Spanish America, and thought more IA
vorably of the chances of success, it un-
dertaken in company with the old SOL
dier of Napoleon.
"'And LIE Roux?
Gas the patron had never mentioned
his purposes to him, the subject was
never referred to again. l have, how
ever, often wondered whether, with a
little more enterprise, might not have
succeeded in finding the deposit OF te sac
a c,.ir des diamdnts and fat. Ausst
mes ,entes a Paris. "-NetO Orleans
Picdy,t'ae.
POliteness of the Heart.
"I hope" M. Legouve writes, 81 am