The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-12-07

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CHAPTER I-Robert Macare. mystic
| of. and finally weds the prettiest and richest
| daughter of the town. Marie Beaumont, who
is loved BY poor villager, Pierre Lamar.
but is murdered by Macaire, who. in the dead
of night, pushes him over precipice.
| CHAPTER III-Old man Beaumont hides
| watching him, and Marie watching both. Marie
prevents her husband from committing a
crime BY M herself taking Beaumont's gold.
| Lamar's murder, and Beaumont discovers his
CHAPTER V-The gendarnes inquiry on
! the missing gold Marie's confession of rob-
berry and her attempt to screen her husband.
CHAPTER VI-Marie and Macare both ar
| rested. Macaire escapes while being taken
CHAPTER VII-Marie is brought before
! the magistrate and her case continued She
| hears of her husband being an old criminal.
| to be born in prison. she makes her escape.
| The child is born, placed by the roadside as a
waif, and picked up by ahorseman.
| CHAPTER VlllnAfter 70 years Mares
child grows up as the son of NJ. DumOnt. the
wealthy proprietor of Les Bons Amis. Charles,
the son, falls in loye with Clementine Germe-
nil. Ond wins nor.
CHAPTER IX-Preparations are made for
| the wedding of Charles and Clementine. The
| secret of Charles birth revealed.
| CHAPTER X-Macaire and Strops appear
| on the scene under assumed names. The we'd
ding. Charles and Clementine find poor wo-
| man.
CHAPTER XI The failure of notary to
| bring papers stops the wedding temporarily.
| Germenil tells of his 120O0 franc present to
Clementine. and Remond and Bertrand over
| hear the story.
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| CHAPTER XIIT-Remond cleverly steals
the keyt NJ. Germenl's room.
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CONTINUED.
| CIementine had been with difficulty
restored to consciousness after the terri
BILE shock she had received at the sight
of her fathers body and knew nothing
as yet of the scene which had taken place
in the sale or the strange discovery of
Charles parentage. He was now sitting
with her, endeavoring to soothe her grief.
while she little suspected that his own
was so much more bitter. She had lost
father. it is true, and by a terrible
death, but he had died respected and be-
loved by all, while he-he had found a
l AAOUACAs ~ ID tIuC, Out UuucT WHdL ClT-
cumstances? He did not for moment
believe her guilty of the terrible charge
brought against her. But unless it could
be positively disproved, how could he ask
Clementine to become his wife while such
stigma was on his mother'sname? Too
many people had heard what had passed
to allow of its remaining a secret.
The poor young mans thoughts were
very sad indeed as he sat holding his
fiancees hand.
| Charles had begged so hard of Roger
not to treat his mother with the same
rigor as had been shown to Macaire and
Strop, but to allow her to remain in the
house: that the brigadier, who under his
official crust was soft hearted enough,
had consented to this arrangement,
though, as he said, he was exceeding his
duty and might get into trouble by it.
do not fear. siri' said Marie. II
have no wish to go now that l have
found my son. Besides" she added, Il
am innocent of this crime. and God. who
knows it, will prove it.
Her first anxiety when she recovered
consciousness was whether in her sur
prise she had disclosed the fact that
Macaire was her husband and Charles
father, and it was great relief to her to
perceive that he had not the least sus-
picion of such a thing, nor had Nj. Du-
mont. who had no idea that she had a
claim to any other name than that of
Beaumont. He had heard the missing
woman whom he supposed to be the
mother of the little waif spoken of by
that name, as among the country folks
married women were as often called by
their maiden names as by their hus-
bands, and he concluded that the
worthless fellow" the ''coquin" he had
heard mentioned. bore the name of Beau
mont.
Macaire had had no time to speak, and
no one would have listened to him had he
attempted to do so. And poor Marie
hoped that she might be able to spare
her son such terrible blow as this
knowledge would be. She determined.
however, to tell all to M. Dumont, who
she considered had right to know, and
who she felt sure would help her to keep
this great disgrace from falling on the
boy he loved and had so long treated az
his son.
Seated in the room where only few
hours before the joyous party had as
sembled to sign the wedding contract,
she told him all-all that we know al
ready of her early history up to the time
when he found the child where she had
placed it. at the foot of the shrine. She
told him. too, her sad after history. full
of misery and suffering.
She had watched him take the child
and had listened till the last echo Of h.
horses hoofs had died away. Then she
had set out again and with much to;i
and suffering had dragged herself back
to the house which she had left. 81,
had accomplished her object. The child
| was saved from the stigma Of being born