The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-02-06

~ - IN VI 1890
of music reserved for certain cate
gOTies of the natives.
Rhodie vas at once director and sec
rotary, professor of harmony, fugue,
counterpoint, solfeggio, and naturally
Of the violin. A burglar who possessed
some talent as a c~larinetiSt was placed
in charge of the wind instrument class,
and al eX-notary, forger and dramatic
author vas exclusively charged with
the defamation section.
Some of the natives had splendid
bass voices, and a little girl, Meoka-
Liki, gave fair promise of becoming
a second Patti.
Jean Rhode, happy in his enterprise,
mad spent five years teaching the ma
tives of the lie des Pins the gentle art
of music, when one day the commits
sary of police at Nice received q visit
from a young woman who appeared to
be a prey to violent grief. She ex-
planned between her sobs that she
had beer abandoned by her master
md mistress and was absolutely pen
niless. She had been abroad with
them for several years, and on her re-
turn to Nice they had turned her out.
The young woman was none other
than the Marianne, Jean Rhodes
missing servant. Her strange con-
duct and disappearance, which had
had such disastrous consequences for
the violinist, is easily explained. She
was in love with a valet in the service
of rich foreigners, who resided in the
Plaine Monceau. Suddenly the for
eigners took their departure. What
were the lovers to do? Fortune came
to their aid. One day previous to that
fixed for leaving Paris, IA kitchen
maids place became vacant. Mari
anne vas accepted. and. leaving sever
al months pay behind her, went Off
without notifying Rhode. in order to
escape from his remonstrances.
She had intended to write, but had
put it off. and put it off. till finally she
never wrote at all. Now, however,
doned by her lover, without parents
and without friends, she thought of
her former master, and begged to be
sent to Paris.
The con.miSsary acceded to her re-
quest, after vainly trying for a week
to find her Il place. The money for
her fare was advanced out of the pub
lie funds. on condition that it should
be reimbursed upon her arrival. On
reaching the capital Marianne at nce
FASTENED TO the Rue Nollet. Not only
was the concierge no longer there, but
her master had disappeared, and none
of the dodgers knew anything about
him. In the height of her p~erplexity
she vas sent for by the commissary
of police of the quarter, who demanded
the sum due from her to the state.
She was, of curse, unable to pay.
Then" said the commissary, you
will have to go to prison for fifteen
days for defaulting the state"
The terrified girl burst into ears.
All" she exclaimed, IF only my old
master had been there, he would have
saved me-
Your old master? What master?"
queried the commissary.
why, NJ. Jean Rhode, of course,
with whom l served for over five
years"
Hold hard'' exclaimed the magis-
trate. tapping his forehead. He
thought awhile, and then the circum-
stances of Jean Rhodes trial and con-
demnation came back to him.
80 you were Jean Rhodes ser
vant." he exclaimed.
Yes, sir"
and you are not dead?'
Dead? No."
''Then tell me where you went to
and what you have been doing since
you left Paris"
Well said the commissary after
listening TO her story. your precipi-
tate departure was the cause of an
innocent mans condemnation" And
he told her the whole history of Jean
Rhodes trial and conviction.
M%arianne's establishment and grief
can be imagined.
rChn coD,J,iCcop Of +6o potinnn1Ioc
quarter vas an energetic and enter
prising functuary. He went to work
to obtain Jean Rhodes liberation, and
after months of hard work. in which
he va aided assidiously by Rhodes
remorsefui counsel, who had given up
the bar and made Il fortune as a soap
boiler, the barriers of red tape were
surmOunted and Jean Rhode was sent
back to France Il free man, after serv-
ing ten years in the distant convict
settlement.
VIII it be believed? He was almost
sorry at his release. What would be-
come of his school of music, in which
he took such pride? What would be.
come of his favorite pupil, MeoKa-
Liki?
However, he returned to Paris and
found his servant Marianne, but was
unasle 10 ascertain the whereabouts OF
his concierge, Was his reverea n=..
which lie bad brooded for so many
years. then. to escape him?
Jean RhCdie has resumed his former
mode of life. R~einstated in his apart
mcnt in the Rue NOllet, he again Occu-
pies the post of first violin at the Am.
bigu-ComiQue. But the unhappy fellow
has two secret griefs the Golden
Fleece" has not vet been sta god and
he has never been able to lay ha
upon his concierge.-From the French.
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