The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-28

She now stood within a few feet of
the platform and swept il with her
eyes, but her brother was not there.
The cry was now raised:
Here cones another batchr'
Her heart fiuttered violently, and she
felt "a faintness come oyer her as she
heard the tramp of the doomed men ap-
preaching.
Her brother walked proudly and fear
lessly forward and assembled the very
steps which led to the block.
Up to this moment the strength of
poor Marie had failed her, and she was
unable to put her resolve into execution.
But now a sisters love swelled up in
her breast, and she recovered her
strength.
She spraDg forward, bursting through
the line of guards, and ran up the steps.
Grasping her brother by the hand, she
cried: 3
"What does this meant? It is only the
aristGcrats that are to diel"
Away. woman!' exclaimed one of
the executioners.
mo- I will not away until You tell
me why my brother is here and thus
bound"
Your, ~brother?' was the echo.
Eyes, this is my brother.
"Well, who are your"
81 am Marie; don't you know me?"
"The beggar grip" :
"Aye."
"But this is not your brother?"
SIT is. Ask him-ask him."
Young Antonio dc Nantes had turned
a scornful gaze upon the maiden, but a
light passed across his face, and he muir
INJURED:
"Oh, my sisterI''
'Is this your brother?'' asked Robes
pierre of the supposed beggar. advanc-
ing near her.
"It is"
"But his name is down differently. "
'"Then you are mistaken. He is my
brother. Ask him."
docs Marie speak the truth?'' asked
Robespierre.
"She does, " was the brothers reply.
"And You are not De Manifest"
81 tell you / am her brother"
why did you not tell us this be.
fore?''
IT attempted to speak, but was 81:
fenced"
"But You might have declared your.
self"
"You would not have believed me-.
"But your dress?'
"It belonged to an aristocrat, per
haps to him for whom / was taken"
.Robespierre advanced close to young
Nantes and gazed earnestly into his
face. Then he approached Marie and
looked steadily in her eyes for a short
time.
1t was a moment of trial for the poor
girl. She trembled in spite of all hen
efforts to be calm. She almost felt that
she was lost, when the human fiend,
whose word was law, turn ID and said:
Release the man."
The chains were instantly removed,
and Antonio de Nantes walked down
from the scaffold, followed by his sis
ter. while the shouts Of those around
rent the air, for they supposed it was q
commoner who had thus been saved.
The young man worked his way
through the crowd as rapidly as posi-
BILE, leading Marie.
They had scarcely escaped it before
the poor girl tainted from the intensity
Of her feelings.
The brother scarcely knew what to do,
but a hand was laid upon his arm, and
a voice said:
Bring her to my room again. She
will be safe there"
The brother conveyed her to the
apartment Of the pauper and asked of
her:
Have You seen the woman before?'
Eyes, / know all about ii, " returned
the pauper. "She borrowed my clothes
to a v her lover. She has done il, and
I am glad"
Before the noble sister returned to
consciousness the brother had learned
all.
When she did so, they both sought
secure quarters after rewarding the
beggar girl, as had been promised.
do you think Robespierre was really
deceived?'' asked Marie de Nantes.
Il think not, |" returned the brother.
Then why did he order your re-
lease?''
HE saw your plan; he admired your
courage. Could a fiend have done less?,'
Perhaps this was the case. But IL
70 it was a deed of mercy and the only
n that man eyer did.
Antonio de Nantes was not again ar
rested and lived happily with that sis
ter who had SO nobly imperiled her own
life to save him BY representing the
beggar girl of Paris.-Pleasant Hours.
Didn't Believe n.
Hs-De Freshe Is laid up with nerv-