Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-07
CHAPTER VI.

Months followed without bringing much change in the situation. In spite of himself, it happened that Julia and Henriette, his wife, met frequently, at one house or the other. Lucien was as far as ever from re- alizing the truth. and Henriette never sus- pccted it. Every time Julia and Roger met, when they could not speak, her eyes suppli- cated him, but he remained infexible.
 Lucien's health remained very delicate, and had it not been for few fortunate specula- tions he made under the direction of broker named Luversan he might have been in real need. - --....s-s --.
 The war had been we'll nigh fatal also to Rogers business, and it was with great di{h- cllty that he could meet his obligations and keep his business going until the summer of 1872, when our story opens.
 It was just at this juncture and under these circumstances that Larouette claimed the payment of the money which so distressed Roger to pay. ... .-
 When Larouette had come into possession of his uncle's fortune, one afternoon young man of 25 years or thereabouts-large dark complexioned, with wide shoulders-presented himself at the lawyers house and asked to see Mime. De Noirville He was the broker with whom Lucien had lad relations in his recent speculations. Julia knew him by sight, having met him before in her husbands room. And one day, while he was waiting to be re- ceived by M. De Noirville, he stood with his back turned as she entered the room. She thought it was Roger Laroque who was standing there, and sprang forward, saying:
 "Roger, one word"
 Ee turned, and she gave cry of surprise. It was Luversan. The same carriage of the head, tho same height ard build, same beard uud hair, but there CT l'd the resemblance. 1ne eyes were naru, Eks nose larger, with narrow nostrils, the f>rehead lower and the eyebrows bushier.
 Who was this man? Clever, sharp, with out scruples, he began his career as employe in commercial house. They saw him about the Louvre year. Then came the war and he had disappeared. He had drifted from one army to the other, spying for French and Germans alike, for whoever paid him best, having one object in view-to get rich and to launch himself into a grand business as soon as peace was declared.
 During the days preceding the battle of Culmiers, Rogers, then officer of the commis sary, was following a road near the forest of Marchenoir, having been sent out with small accommodating party, numbering about thirty men, commanded by lieutenant. Apeasant ran toward them and told them that guard of Prussian infantry, composed of some twenty men, had just installed themselves at g farm about two miles further on, and were annoying the people. The lieutenant placed full confidence in this man, but Roger felt that he was not sincere, and watching his chance managed to get beside him, and, hold ing a cooked revolver in his hand, said
 "If find you have deceived me will blow your brains out.
 The peasant, great broad shouldered, dark complexioned nan, said nothing, but looked at Roger as if he knew him. They reached the farm and surrounded it. After making slight show of resistance the Prus- sians laid down their arms and the French were so sure of their victory that they were thrown off their guard, when, like sudden burst of flame, the cellars, the stables and barns poured forth 200 men, who surrounded the French in an instant. Roger, furious, looked for the peasant who had led them into this tap In the confusion he had escaped, but Rogers keen eyes found him out and he sent a pistol ball into the traitors left shoulder, which, however, did no serious in- jury Still it served to arouse 8 feeling of 1 revengefnl rage, but Roger, after firing that shot, managed to escape into the dense forest of Marchenoir, and he at last reached his command
 | Three days later the German army, beaten, 
 had abandoned Orleans, and among the stragglers who gathered around the French army Roger saw the very man who had be- trayed his comrades. He was dressed diff ferently, had shaved off his mustache and imperial, but all to no purpose, and Roger at once seized upon him, and, in spite of every effort to escape, captured him and handed him over to the authorities. He was searched, and a large sum of German and French Il c1ol though he made the most strenuous efforts to prove his innocence he was tried and con- demned to be shot at daybreak. ,,
 His money was confscated and he placed under guard, but when morning came he was gone. He had somehow surprised the guard and strangled him, and, dressed in the dead mans hat and coat, made his escape, leaving tbese words on scrap of paper pinned to the wall: