Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-13

tUt NNiIfl NNtueil Nu NNN VI lut htllle
benches abutiing on tho arcadcs Adam
Lux pnuEod ut her side.
"For PHYS sake ho ontroated, "toll
me who you are. have known you for
long time, but your name-what Is
yonr nameY
She started and looked mp.
"You have known me for long time,
oitoycnl' she echoed gravoly. ~ do not
understand You"
II am tho deputy from Maycnce, he
said, trying TO speak calmly. at was
at Mayenco that you twice appeared TO
mo. For days and weeks my sleeping
and waking dreams have been full Of
you. recognized yuu the instant that
saw you It was just before you on.
tered the cutters shop"
a slight alarm dawned in her eyes.
Her hand went up 20 her silk hchu, un-
der which she had hidden the knife
Did she think him madmang
Zone should not dream Ia these peril
Gus days, citoyen," she said sterniy;
"thcro is little profit in dreams. Ho who
loves liberty must act"
~ perceive that you are an aristocrat
you belong TO tho mobiles; but your
name--your namoy he insisted.
She smiled sadly
Pardon, cannot tell IL now, oitoyon,
but before many hours It viii DO In
every mouth" She arose from tho
bench. He put out n hand to dotain her.
"Stayi s,ayr he cntrcatcd. "Do not
leave mol love you ardcntly. Strange,
incomprohcnsible as this passion may
seem TO you. It will either save or de-
stroy me. claim yonl Whoever you
are. know that you belong to INC, or
why wero you revealed 10 mo IN tho
spirit before my eyes could look on your
living, breathing beautyg II you goliko
this, leaving me no Glow 20 your whore.
abouts, may never SEQ you ngnin."
Grayoly, coldly she answered; "Do
not talk to mo OF love, citoyon; cannot
comprehend you'll belong only TO
Frnncol Before tho revolution was a
Republican. You will surely SEQ mo
again. and thon," with strange aud
solemn expression, "you will under
stand everything. Now, ci,oyen. adicu."
"Promise," he urged wildly, "thnt u
shall be so-that shall zee you again"
"l promise" she answered, and moved
rapidly away.
Another day dawned aud dwiudlcd.
II was the 18Th Of July, the anniversary
ovoof the fall Of the Bastillc. The heat
was intense and tho streets Of Paris
swarmed with people. Adam Lux left
the convention at twilight. Marat the
horrible was III; ho had not appeared ia
the chamber that day. Engrosscd with
his mysterious love rather than the uf-
fairs OF tho public, Adam Lux dinod at
n cafe with other deputies.
In the midst Of thoir meal, Harriet,
the commandant Of the national guards,
appeared in the door Of the cafe.
Look TO yourselves, deputiosi' he
shouted. "Marat is deadl He has Just
been assassinatcd, aud by the hand Of u
young girl"
The deputies with ono accord rushed
into the street. A terrific mob was surg
ing by, filling the air with cries and I'M
precautions. Lux found himself swept
away with II 60 tho Ruo DIES Cordeliers,
where Marat lived II WIS n small. iii.
lapidated house aud about It's door that
raging, roaring multitude surged like
sea. Yes, tho leader Of La Montague
had been stabbed TO death by tho hand
OF woman. Adam Lux, pressing up to
the threshold, looked and saw the muir
deross coming down the stair, her arms
piuioned, bayonots surrounding her, tho
hamboaux Of the gendarmes glaring upon
her face, which had in It the subluity
. Il
maiden.
alt is the face Of an angel" said n
woman near Adam Lux. "Who Is sheT'
Another voice answered, IAN uristo-
crat who has journeycd from Caeu TO do
this deed-Charlotto Corday."
A squad OF fusilocrs rushed up and
cleared passage for the prisoner.
poor pooplel' munmurod Charlotte
Corday looking with plying eyes upon
the bowling mob. "you wish my death,
when you owe mo an altar for freeing
| you from monster
1t was o'clock of July morning
when up tho dark, docpstair in the base
mont wall Of the Pllais dc Justice the
gondarmos conducted Charlotte Corday
TO her trial before the revolutionary
| tribunal.
She took hor place on the bench Of the
prisoners-tho mnlediotious Of the people
died away in murmur8 OK admiration
Never before had murder worn such ~
aspect. Her beauty was marvellous; he
iirmnoss and intropidity amazed even
her judges.
"Details are needless" she said calmly
"it was | who killed Maratl"
"What did you think 70 effect by IT.
"Rostoro peace to my country. tool
his lifo TO save France
"Why ala you hate himy'
"For his crimes"
"Do you, then, think that you hay
Gssassinated all the Mnrats;"
"Since he is dead others will tremble.
Adam Lux was seated near the pris
onor. His eyes never left her fac,
When the president Of the tribunn
passed sentence of death the Mayenc
deputy leaped from his chair and "a
tended his arms In passionate protest.
"No, nor ho cried wildly; "for III
love Of heaven, nor
1t was tho only voice raised agains
her fato and she recognized the man VIII
had conceived for her such a strange an
mystic passion; no WAS faithful in thi
terrible hour-he dared TO speak IN til
face OF hor judged. Sho turned an
thanked him with an eloquent look. a
though u sword had pierced his hear
Adam Lux roolod aud went down In