Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-14
CHAPTER ".
TIE GENDAENyES.

bS SAt ant AAlN OtGANIs 1NOOC4 " SiAANNNl an opportunity to dig up the hidden money. so also Beaumont, and each with an entirely different motive. while poor Marie. with increasing dread. wanted to be rid of the money at any cost. for she feared that Robert might at any mo- ment find it in her pocket, from which she had not dared to remove it lest he should discover her in the act. Added to all this pain was the anguish of con- ing motherhood and the fear that the very strain which sine was now undergo ing might impcril the life of her unborn child
 GoeinE that she was not sleeping. Rob ert ill lis impatience flung himself noi- siiy about, anl by the sound Lc thus made in his impatient anger deterred lhe old man from VcnTuring forth to seek the safety of his money.
 When the little household assembled for breakfast, Mme. Beaumont could not understand why the two men We're so cross and tired or why Marie. with flushed cheeks and eyes dim with wake fulnesS. was vet of such exceeding gavety. The poor girl trying. as many poor woman has done before her time. to con Ceal IL" anguish of her heart under mask of chCerfuluesS. At such time the eyes of men and women are often hap pily blind. and the Yoor hunted soul had a little rest under the shelter of their iE- uCrancc. Only the eyes of God and his angels never fail to look through the mask and sec the f1uttering soul beneath.
 All that day the same state of things continued. Not one of these interested would relax from their Cudeavor. To- ward the evening the farmer. getting desperate. took his spade and casually announced his intention of doing q little work i'll the field stretching mp the hill side. This was beyond the copse where the money had been hidden. 50 Robert, jumping 10 his feet with alacrirv, pro posed in hearty tone to aid LilH in the work.
 Again po0r Nme Beaumont was mvs- tifcd at the sudden wrath displayed by her husband as he told his son-in-law that Le wanted 10 assistance She mild ly irtericred and s&id:
 But. my dear. would it not be well to let Robert assist you in the work? You have had q hard week of ii, and you are not so young as you were"
 To which he made reply. "A hard week of it, and hard year of it too. Robert is Eot too ready to aid in the work, and l am not y"'ngcr than ever was. Robert can s-uv where Ec Is or go to the wire shop as us,:al. That seems 10 be more his home now than my house is"
 But if the old laan thought 10 down face Robert cIacHiro when Els mind was bent on q thing he was much mistaken. One of tho lCSsn:. which a man learns at the %2ll,ys iS h h, Callous. and especial ly when he has a purpose 10 serve. So Robert, in the most Senial WAY, tried to turn the whole matter inio . joke and sail
 Well. ,,clly, If you will not let me help you, 1 suppose you must let nc and sir by IS" lie s,2id this. knowing th2r if Marie wc-o present. he would not attempt 10 disturb the money which would thus remain ia peace until his own turn came to deal with it By this time he knew perfectly well that the old man intended to change the hiding place
 So Poor Marie had to go with the two men. for neither y0ntured 10 forbid her. lest their own motive should be sus- lSNbSNi' t---NA tN t'SicS IN AA-C Nt4 SlOk where the grief of the discovery had come to her.
 As might be expected. the time was unpleasant for them all. Beaumont was sullen and would o.,ly answer in mono syllables when spoken To. Marie was miserable beyond expression. and 1t was only by q continuous ctEcrt that she kept from bursting into tears. for now one ,,.,,,, . 1,I. !. n N-Y- crt, Gs If to revenge what he considered her unconscious thwarting of his pur- pose. treatcl her in q manner which he knew woull give her pain. He would make Un!1inl remarks and ask unpleas- ant questions. and when she would try to hido her pain with n s-l.ila he would , catch hold of her roughly and with q boisteTous vehe,ncnce of speech. Indeed ho actually once or twice caused her much pain, q thing that one like her should not have had to bear and mora especially ct such hands.
 The sun was setting when the two men, as if by a tacit consent. gave up their purpose for the time, and they all went back 10 the house silently and with sul. len looks on their faces. while poor Marie. with the prospect of such another night of agony before her, would have gladly sunk on the earth 10 have risen no more.
 All that night she lay awake and heard the clock mark of the weary hours that | crept by at such snaiIs pace. Again 1 Robert was cXasperated by her wakeful- : ness, and by his noisy movements kept old Beaumont from his plan of changing the hiding place of his money. l In the morning she was almost in a fever. for she f5l. that her strength was failing. and she feared that she would not be able to hold out long enough to save the exposure which she dreaded. i She knew that if something strange did not happen some dreadful trouble might 1 come upon them all before nightfall, { and that such might come to them at any moment whether anything unexpected happened or not.
 A strange thing did happen. but it did 1 not bring any relief to the poor woman's 1 stricken heart.
 1 Scarcely was breakfast over when one 1 of the neighbors ran in quite breathless and called out
 Quick! Go down to the shop. There is such news. Nothing like it has ever been known in''-
 What is it:" cried out Beaumont while Robert Macaire said not a word, but sat still with q white face. Marie's heart seemed to cease beating. Every. thing seemed to upset her now. . "Pierre Lamar did not go for a soldier after all. The gendarmes were coming over the mountain path, and they saw something queer lying in the ravine un der the precipice. So they went dowr the side of the mountain farther on and went back up the ravine until they found it. There was the skeleton of poor Pierre ] They knew 1t by his passport. which was