The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-14
A RESTITUTION.

~SuA No'oAAnobs tuoc6 tuo SApGcoB-REUVlu,
be 10 understood. with his pasa-and goes
TO feel the pulse of public opinion in his
own little city.
Comfortably installed in tho corner of
the coach. Monsieur Grandcadet unfolds
an immense evening journal. a very
thoughtful. ministerial journal, set forth
IN q prose as heavy and luaubrious AZ Wiz
tue herself, and whose very Typography has
. Rravs and purisanical air. Tbs Pan
ann episode-insipniAcant, a. we
we'll know. and exaggerated 20 malevo-
lently by the enemies OF the republic
is disdainfully relegated to tho third page,
and all that relates to it is set up In email
type and is almost ~illegible. Per contra
the columns of the austere organ are bur
dened with foreign politics. with articles Of
palpisating intcl est. which begin in these
terms: "ThinRs are going to the bad In
Venezuela" or, "Can it be that the days of
the Tricoupis ministry are numbered ?'
To keep himself in countenance before
the gentleman with the white mustachss of
a retired colonel. who sits opposite him and
quietly reads La Coearde. Monsieur Grand.
cadet does not take his eyes of the official
sheet. but appears to feel a passionate in
tersst in the Hellenic crisis and in tho lat
est DISPATCHES from Caracas: In reality,
howeve-. M. Grandcadet has been greatly
shaken by late events. and a dark inquie-
tude lives in his soul.
His name has not yet been uttered. Good.
He has written or put his name to nothing.
Capital. But who can answer for it as the
ming him will not DO brought to light
one OF these fine days? For In fne, he, like
his comrnde, the honorable man, has
received his gratuity,. and has not
thought he was doing any harm.
for yourself. He had no opinion Of his
own in regard to the last call for funds; no
was hesitating. A man of considerable
impoi lance. a tioh banker. whom he fire.
quently. met In political circles. with
'elations-nlmost a friend-opened his
eyes. showed him how appropriate
what shall %say?-how patriotic it
was to vote in favor Of utteranoe.
This man, who knows the polite
proses to him-oh! in terms of the utmost
delicacy-to associate him with tho fnan.
cinl operations which are SO naturally pre-
pairing in connection with this huge affair,
and assures to him-even pays him in ad-
enormous one. bless you! but q wrotohed
t'ihe Of $4,000 francs. You need not speak
a word in protest. You would have ac-
cepted yourself, just as did M. Grandcadet.
know what you are going to say: "And
What sbou. the subsoribsrs?" Lst Us rea-
they would have said nothing at
all, because they would make an
e1csllsnt investment. They were gamblers
and that is all there 10 about it. Would
you know my way of looking at it? They
are OF no consequence whatever, the sub
scribers. Had Grandoadet any means of
predicting that the famous canal would
never be opened? Why, already. several
times be had realized profts--trihea-in
affairs Of the same kind, which had more
Well then. frankly. with his hand on his
conscience. he rsproached himself for moth
Ing. And shall We tell the whole truth? He
had no faith whatever in this explosion Of
public anger. 1t was entirely f%actitious. II
was easy to recognize behind all this ready
made indignation, a conspiracy Of the old
parties, the hand of tho count of Paris and
of the BoulanRists. The president of the
counsel had told them so to their face.
An! unfortunately he: Gsandcsdet.
republic: At the peril Of his life, if ,ou
please! You would scarcely have believed
him capable Of 1t. with his round raunoh,
his WHISPERS In the shape Of a harc's foot,
and his mien OF a rakish notary posing in
readiness to pierce a hole through the
his nose! Yes, had It been absolutely
necessary, he would have offered himself to
be slain on a harricade. and would have
cried. like the heroic Baudin: Come and
see how a man eau die-for 5000 frnncs!"
And yet. in spite of all this clear reason
Ing. the honorable deputy from Deux Gar
rones was not happy.
:! might as we'll try to rest q little" he
said to himself.
He pulled his travelling cap we'll down
over Ms bald pate, dew his rug about bis
legs. stretched himself out on tho seat and
soon was sleeping profoundly.
But then he had n nightmare. Was he
oppressed by remorse? For my own part /
should be roadier to believe that he had
done wrong to cat jagged hare, in dining
at the buffet OF the railway station. Hs
should have been more cautious, The hare
was not a success with him.
His dreams were absurd.
He saw himself first. returning TO his own
house. opening his st,onR-box, perceivino
that he had been robbed, and that in plnos
OF the big green morocco pockotbook in
which he kept all his papers, there vsa
nothing but IN old wooden stocking Also.
lutely empty. Next. he was suddenly trans.
Iorted to tho chamber of deputies, but he
which was hardly lighted by the faint twi.
light. All the desks wero shut, all the doc q
were closed. There was no trace Of q hu-
man being loft. except an enormous high
ing on the Presidents desk. Grnndcadet
was looking stupidity at il. when the mon.
strous head covering exploded ana began
TO POUR forth IN innumerable quantity OF
little squares of white paper. and on them
NIL the unfortunate deputy. endowed Of a
sudden with a supernatural power of vision,
was able to read the name of his rival in
the last election. But nll ut once
tho hat shut down on itself like
a limp. empty bng; tho ceiling
sank. tho walls drew together, and
Grundcndst, Mt tho highest pitch OF sur
Prise and horror. found himself before the
court OF assizcs. between two peuda, mes.
and recognized under tho red -sleeved ,obes
md gold laced toques of tho president and
the two Hssessors. his porter. his hair
dresser, and his housekeeper from Paris, all
three ruined In the Panama afTuir. And
the president stood up and read In a cav.
ernous voice IN extraordinary sentence
which condemned the Sieur Grandcndet, an
ex. deputy. TO aid the EiGcl tower nj his
own expense within six months, and sfte--
ward TO DO impaled on tho lightning rod Of
that edifice.
This was too friRhtful. Tho member OF
parliament nWoke with n stnrt. II vns