The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-23
CHAPTER VII.
AT THE SHRINE.

Aftcr lew nOurs more JOurneylng
the party reached their destination. For
Marie it was a time of blessed peace, for
the kind words of the sergeant had
brought her such relief that wearied
nature asserted her power, and she slept.
So weary was she that she lay as one
dead, and even bad dreams came not to
her. The road had got somewhat
smoother as they drew nearer to the val
ley, so that she was less jolted than had
been the experience hitherto on the jour-
ney.
When they arrived at the gendar-
merle, the sergeant would not have Marie
awakened. "Let her sleep, poor soul,
while she can," he said. So couple Of
men lifted without ayakening her and
placed her in room, where the SER
geants wife had her laid on bed as
good as was to be had. The door was
locked, and she was left alone to sleep
until the morning, when she was to be
taken before the magistrate.
When she awoke, after long sleep,
the sergeant's wife gave her a comfort
able meal, and in many little ways such
as kind women know helped to ease her
distress.
In the morning she was taken before
the magistrate and charged with the
theft of the money. OF course the SER
geant had to tell the story of the escape Of
the other prisoner. Those in the court
room were much interested in the recital,
and when his description was given one of
the gendarmes who had newly como to
the station said:
"That must be the very man who es-
capped from tho galleys at Marseilles
after killing two Of the guards"
He was Immediately interrogated as
TO tho antecedents Of the murderer, and
Marie had to listen while the whole cat
alogue of her husbands iniquity was un-
folded. With growing horror she learned
that he had been many times in prison,
from which he had by some trick or sub
terfuge escaped on each occasion; that
he was a criminal Of the deepest dye
-remorseless, pitiless, cruel; that his
want of gratitude to those who had
helped him in his times of trouble had
alienated' even those who had clung to
him the longest; that he had been ac-
cused of several murders and suspected
Of many more, but that his cunning had
been such that he had been able to prove
on nearly every occasion that the guilt
had rested with some Of his dupes; that
he had never hesitated to betray his fell
lows and accomplices when it had
served his purpose. In the opinion of
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criminal in the whole roll Of crime.
Finally he had been convicted on a
charge of murder and condemned to
the galleys for life. He had been in the
gang at Marseilles for only short time
when he had escaped by an effort of des-
perate courage, having in the doing so
murdered two Of the guards under cir
cumstances of peculiar atrocity.
When the recital had come to an end,
the magistrate said that so far as tho
charge of tho theft was concerned no
would have been content to let it lie over
until later time had there not been di.
rect evidence Of the woman having taken
the money and its being discovered in
her possession. AS from the fact Of her
husband being such q desperate charac-
ter il would have been presumably as o
tool in his hands that she had committed
the theft. As, however, he had escaped
with her assistance, IL would be ncces-
sary that she should be held in custody
for both cnarges--that Of the crime with
which she was charged and the addi-
tional one Of conniving with and aiding
in the escape Of an arrested forcat. AT
the SAINT tim, ,ssaid the magistrate. ION