The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

stage version Of the romance, which,
I for the benefit of those who may rot
have read this interesting novel, may
briefly be set forth as follows:
/ In act / we find Paris in a ferment
of revolt against the tyranny of Richie
/ lieu. who has earned the special de-
testation of the gallants of France by
/ the severity Of his edict against duel
! ling Cardinal Richelieu passes Ia
| tons gaming house While Gil de Be
rault is at cards with a hectoring but
/ honest young Englishman, Sir Thomas
4 Brunt. The latter is engaged in the
rather doubtful pastime known as
seeing life" Brunt accuses De Be
rault of playing with marked cards
and throws the pack in his face, where
upon ensues a, duel fought with the
1 aplomb of a Hamilton and Burr, in
which the Englishman is badly
wounded.
/ Richelieu enters and only grants de
Berault his life upon the condition that
! de COcheforet, a powerful ally of the
rebels. and bring him prisoner to his
palace In the second act we find de
} Berault carrying out his mission in the
, Chateau de Cocheforet. BY this time
he loathes himself for, with the in
I stincts Of q brave man of honor Gin
spite of the life which he has led in
I
! for Renee de CCcheforet Henris sis
/ ter This fact makes his task a thou
/ sand times more odious. Renee, who
1 is entertaining de Berault under his
mothers name. as a friend Of her
brother and the cause falls in love
with him and scarcely troubles 10 dis
! guise her feelings, and this again heaps
! coals Of fire on the head of the
wretched spy. The third act discloses
as a sequence exciting episodes inciden-
! tai to the hiding and escape of de
/ COcheforet and the mental conflict of
! de Berault involving alterations of
/ feeling upon the part OF Renee and an
! agony Of shame on that of the spy.
I This eliminates in the release of de
] Cocheforet and de Berault, the spy,
/ sending his prisoner south to the Pyre-
4 nees. which means for him freedom and
/ safety and himself taking the north
ward road to Paris. to Richelieu-and
! death. The final act shows US the fall
len Richelieu in his palace. empty now
/ of all suDDliants for favor with only
one figure in the splendid desert of the
corridor-that very Gil de Berault, who
! comes to announce that he too. has
betrayed the cardinals trust and failed
1 him in his extremity, though not in the
ignoble fashion of the greedy rats who
have deserted the sinking ship. The
/ cardinal IS furious at first He con-
| dennis. the reDentant shy, the man
whose honor rooted in dishonor stood, .
to confinement during the kings pleas
ure.. This sentence, to d man of de
Berault's calibre is worse than death
But this is only one more ruse, and a
gracious kindly one, of the willy poten-
tate in the red robe. Renee has come
to Paris, sought an interview with the
cardinal and told him the whole story,
with the result that such a heart as
the old fox has is touched. After he
himself has been recalled to power and
goes out in triumph TO the king, the
lovers find that the confinement is only
to Cocheforet, and that a future of
happiness is secured for them, by the
power and clemency of the cardinal,
proving that there is human sympathy
as well as ambition Under the Red
Robe.
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