The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-06-13

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and thus the school of Albert the Great
escaped the flames.
On the following day Leo Meillet AMI the
tsicers began to feel themselves III dln
the Fort of Bicetre. The army was a
"A. near. They resolved 10 evacuat. e
fort and fall back upon Paris, whers nam l.
Gus barricades, well provided with artillery,
made resistance possible, and where the
steep aud narrow streets, the labyrinthine
windings and twisting Of courts and alleys,
in the old quarter Of the city made fight
and cOncealment easy.
Carriages, carts, wagons, were hurriedly
requisitioned on every hand, and then came
a flight so eager that the prisoners in their
easement were forgotten.
"Thank God!' cried CASTOR, with a wild
throbblng at his heart, forgetting, for the
moment, that he was an intidel. THE Yer
sail!ais will be here in time to save u.s."
And the good Dominicans, the men who
had turned their house into an ambulance
during the siege and the Commune, and who
had nursed the wounded Federals without
a question as to their beliefor theirimpiety,
began to offer up their thanksgiving, and
murmur psalms of triumph aud rejoicing
those versicles which Jewish captives OF
old had sung by the waters of Babylon.
Alas for those pious hearts uplifted in
gratitude to the great Deliveror. not thus,
hot by Versailles, was their deliyerance to
come. They were to pass to paradise by a
rougher road. Their joy had been prema-
ture, for they had reckoned without Seri-
zier.
And yet thisS erizier was one of the mas.
tcr-fcnds in the Partisan pandemonium. A
carrier by trade, he had been in early man.
hood the tyrant and the terror of a great
curriers' factory at Belleville, and in the
revolution of '4s he had been leader of the
mob which hanged the proprietor of the
factory at his own door. He had been con-
denlned for some political offence during
the Empire, and had taken refuge in Bel
GUM. He reappeared in Paris soon after
the 4th of September, and played an impor-
tant part In the siege.
After March 18th he became secretary to
Leo Meillet, and later chief of the 18th
legion. He commanded twelve battaEions,
which fought we'll at Issy, at Chatillon, and
at the Hautes-Bruyeres. Amongst these
battalions there was one which he favored
above all the others, the 10l-t, his own par
ticular battalion, composed of his friends
md companions.
A man of fiery temperament, q great talk
or, a deep drinker, a workman without in.
t'iSbts iNNihS tlVOla it'iNs SNtoiNtN
the public assistance, Scr,zier exercised a
| strong influence upon the ignorant and
brutal beings who surrounded him. He was
feared and obeyed by all the 18Th arrondis.
sement, which tremhled before him. His
hatred against the priests was a passion
that almost touched IN lunacy. He had
profaned the churches by his foul orgies,
and 1t was only the entry of the troops from
Versailles which stopped him from selling
sanity relics and sacramental plate by auc-
ton. Assassin and incendiary. it was his
hand which fired the famous manufactory
of Gobelins tapestry.
He was a man of medium height, square.
shouldered, eyes shifty and restless, fore
head low, lips thick and heavy, receding
chin, the head of a bulldog. His voice was
harsh and hoarSe, his breath exhaled CO Znac.
When he was angry that rough voice broke
ont in c~ursings aud fury, more like the
bowling Of a savage dog than the accents of
humanity.
Serizier had his own particular prison as
well as hiss own particular battalion. A
house in the Avenue d'Itaiie had been trans
formed into a gaol; and here this man kept
those victims who We're known as his pris.
oners. AT the final day he clearedhis prison
by a massacre.
Serizier had not forgotten the Dominicans
and t.eir companions. At his bidding a
detachment Of soldiers came in search of
them, and they vera marched into Paris b
The Barrierc Fontainebleau, amidst hootings
and insults and curses from the crowd, a
little company of twenty hostages, five of
whom wore the flowing black and white
robes of the order.
No hep from the French army. All yes
terday they had been he'd at bay by the
Federal artillery at Montrouge, and were
on y able to cross the ravincs of La Bievrc
on the morning of The 25th.
The prisoners were hurried along, almost
at a run, to the gaol in the Avenue d'ltalie.
Embarrassed by the volmninous folds Of
their robes they did not always walk fast
enough, whereupon the soldiers struck them
with the butt-end of their guns, calling ont,
Quick, magrie!' in mockery of their black
and white raiment; and so to the prison,
which was already full to the brim, con-
tanning ninety-seven prisoners arrested in
that district, and detained at Citoyen Seri-
zier'S good pleasure. Bobccie, the gaoler,
fatigued by having to write such q list of
names, had gone out to refresh himself with
a drink. While he was away the Commune
ards came to the prison TO ask the Domini-
cans to help in making the barricades; but
the deputy-gaOler having some respect for
the religious character sent fourteen Ma
tlonal Guards, imprisoned for some military
irregularity, instead of the priests. Bobeche,
returning Immediately after, was furious
with his suborl nate, and accused him of
shedding the blood of patriots in order TO
spare the monks. He had a detachment of
the 10ist battalion at his heels and he order
ed those tonsured scoundrels to be brought
out.
Bertrand, the subordinate, yielded after
some opposition, and opened the door of the
gaol.
Come, magpies,' cried Bobeche, ''off
with you to the harricade!'
The Dominicans came ont into the avenue,
where they saw the detachment of the l01st,
with Serizier at their head. This time they
believed that all was over; but they were
deceived, for their agony was to las; q little
longer.
Father Cotrault, the puIyeyor, stopped on
the threshold Of the prison.
w will go no further" he said: 1--WE are
men of peace. Our religion forbids us to
shed blood: We cannot fight. and we will
not go to the barricade; bat even. under fire
we will search for your wounded, and sue
cor them.'
litS compromise WOuiu not nave Deen aC-
Copied by Seiizier, but The Communist sol
dicrs were wavering, they were crying out
that it would soon be impossible to hold the
harricade against the hail of bullets from
the Versaillais.
Enough said Serizier TO Father Cot
rault; promise to look after our wounded"
Yes, we promise" answered the monk
"and you know it is what we have always
done"
Serizier made n sign to Bobeche, and the
prisoners were bundled back into the gaol.
But they no longer deceived themselves
with false hopes. They new the respite was
but brief. They prayed together, and made
confession to each other. They might have
been spared, perhaps; but the news brought
to Serizier was exasperating and alarming.
Some men flying from the QUARTER Latin
to fight again in the Avenue d'Ita'ie told
how the Pantheon, the great citadel of the
instruction, had been taken by the Yer.
saillais before there had been time to fire
the mino which would have shattered dome
and walls, arches and columns, in one vast
heap of ruin. They told how Milliere, tile
chief of the insurgents in this quarter, had