The Washington times., 1902-10-12
BOOK n-wANDER1rc- Continued.
Continued.

I was only twenty, and he stung me.
'Your royal highness," said, speak
Ing as believed within my rights. my
sister tries to put good front on m,
Intrusion into Mittau.''
took the coronet from my head and
gave 1t again to the hand which hal
crowned me. Marie Therese let it fall
and 1t rocked near the feet Of the king
Your sister. monsieur! What righ;
have you to call Madame d'Angoulelne
yorT sister!''
The same right, monsieur. that you
have to call her your niece"
The features of the princess became
pinched and sharpened under the soft.
ness Of her fair hair.
"Sire. IL this is not my brother, who 4.
he?"
Louis XVIII may have been ten
der to her every other momen. Of
his life, but he was hard then, and
looked beyond her toward the door
making a sign with his hand.
That strange sympathy which works
In me for my opponent, put his outraged
dignity before me rather than my owr
wrong. Deeper, more sickening thar
DEATH the FIRST faintness Of self-distrus
came over me. What II my half-memo.
ries were unfounded hallucinations
What II my friend Louis Philippe hat
made tool OF me. to annoy this older
Bourbon branch that detested him:
What II Bellenger's recognition, and the
Marquis du Plessy's, and Marie There.
se's. went for nothing? What II some
other. and not this angry man, had sent
the money to America
The door opened again We turned ou,
heads, and grew hot at the cruelty
which put that idiot before my sisters 6
eyes. He ran on all fours. his gaunt
wrists exposed, until Bellenger, advanc-
ing behind. took him by the arm and
made him stand erect. 1t was this poo-
creature I had heard scratching on the
other side of the inn wall.
How long Bellenger had been before
hand with me in Mittau / could not
guess. But when saw the scoundrel
who had laid me in Ste. Pelagie, and
doubtless dropped me in the Seine, ready
TO do me. more mischief, SNUG and
smooth shaven. and fine in the red-col-
Jared blue coat which seemed to be the
prescribed uniform Of that court, all my
confidence returned. was Louis OF
France. 1 could laugh at anything he
had to say.
IND hi
vanced up the room and made obeisance
to the King, as Belleneer did
Madame d'Angouleme looked once at
the idiot and hid her eyes, the King pro-
tecting her. I said to myself:
1T will soon be against my breast,
not yours. that she hides her face, my
excellent uncle Of Providence!"
Yet he was as sincere a man as eve.
said to witnesses:
I'VE shall now hear the truth
The few courtiers. enduring with
hardness sight which they perhaps
had seen before. though Madame had
not. made a rustic among themselves as
II echoins:
Yes. now We shall hear the truth"
The King again kissed my sisters
hand and placed her in seat beside his
arm chair. which he resumed
Monsieur the Able Edgeworth," he
said, having stood on the scaffold with
our martyred sovereign. as priest and
comforter. is eminently the one to con-
duct an examination like this, which
touches matters of conscience We
leave Il in his hands"
Able Edgeworth. fine and sweet of
presence. stood by the King, facing Bel
lenger and the idiot. That poor crea-
ture, astonished by his environment.
gazed at the high room corners, or
smiled experimentally at the courtiers.
stretching his cracked lips over dark
ened fangs.
"You are admitted here, Bellenger."
said the priest, Ito answer his majesty's
questions in the presense of witnesses.
81 thank his majesty said Bellenger.
The abbot began as IL the idiot attract
ed his notice for the first time.
sswho is the unfortunate child you
bold with your right hand?'
THE dauphin of France. monsieur the
abbe." spoke out Belfenger. his left hand
on his hip.
what, Take care what you say! How
10 you know that the dauphin of France
u yet among the living?"
BeIlenger's countenance changed, ami
be took his hand off his hip and let 4.
bang down.
II received the prince. monsieur, from
those who took him out OF the Temple
prison"
And you never exchanged him for an
other person, or allowed him to be sep
lrated from you?'
Bellenger swore with CHASTITY lips
Never. on my hopes of salvation, mon
rfeur the abbe."
Admitting that somebody gave you
his child to keep-by the way. how old |
k he?"
About twenty years. monsieur"
what right had you to assume he was
he iauphin?"
Il had received yearly pension. mon
sieur, from his majesty himself for the
of the prince"
"You received the yearly pension
through my hand. acting as his majestys
,lmcner. His majesty was ever too
,ountiful to the unfortunate. He has
many dependents. Where have you lived
Nth your EhArgef"