Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
BOOK Il.-wANDERINe.

hand.
That strange sympathy which works in
me for my opponent, put his outraged dig
nifty before me rather than my own
wrong. Deeper, more sickening tnan
| death, the FIRST faintness OF self-distrust
| came over me. What If my half-memories
were unfounded Authorizations? What II
my friend Louise Philippe had made a
tool Of me, to annoy this older Bourbon
! branch that detested him? What IL Bel
lenger's recognition, and the Marquis du
Plessy's, and Marie-Therese's went for
nothing? What IL some other, and not
this angry man, had sent the money to
| America $3.50
The door opened again. We turned
our heads, and grew hot at the cruelty
which put that idiot before my sisters
| eyes He ran on all tours, HIS gaunt
wrists exposed, until Bellenger, advanc-
| ing behind, took him by the arm and
made him stand erect. 1t was this poor
creature 4 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 michief, Snug and smooth
| shavsn, and fine in the red-collared blue
coat which seemed to be the prescribed
uniform of that court, all my confidence
returned. 1 was Louis of France. /
could laugh at anything he had to say.
Behind him entered priest who adj
vanced up the room, and made obeisancS
to the king. as Bellenger did.
Madame d'Angouleme looked once at
the idiot, and hid her eyes: the king pro-
| tecting her. said to myself.
cit will soon be against my breast, not
yours, that she hides her face, my excel
lent uncle OF Provence!" te
Yet he was as sincere a man as ever
said to witnesses:
1--WE shall now hear the truth.
The few eourtiers. enduring with hardi-
ness sight which they perhaps had seen
before, though Madame dAngouleme had
not made a rustic among themselves as
| If echoing,
Yes, now we shall hear the TRUTH
The king again kissed my sisters hand,
and placed her in a 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 eninently 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
flcnger and the idiot. That poor creature,
astonished by HIS environment, gazed
at the high room corners, or smiled ex-
perimentally at the courtiers, stretching
his cracked lips over darkened fangs.
you are admitted here, Bellenger,''
said the priest, "to answer his majesty's
questions in the presence OF witnesses"
II thank HIS Majesty" said Bellenger
The able began as IL the idiot attract
ed his notice fer the first time. f
who is the unfortunate child you hold
With your right hand?"
''The -dauphin of France, monsieur the
able" spoke out Bellenger, his left hand
on his hip.
what! Take care what you say How
do you know that the dsuphin OF France
is yet among the living?"
Bellengers countenance changed, and
he took HIS hand on his hip and let it
hang down.
81 received the price. monsieur, from
those who took him out of the Temple
prison"
And you never exchanged him for
arated from your
Bellenger swore with CHASTITY lips
Never. on my hopes OF salvation, mon
Fieur the abbe!'
Admitting that somebody gave you
this child to keep-by the way, how old
is he?"
About twenty years. monsieur"
What right had you to assume he
was the dauphin?' nt
IT had received yearly pension. mon
sieur. from his majesty himself, for the
maintenance of the prince" fsl
You received the yearly pension
through my hand. acting as his Majesty's
slmoner. His Majesty was ever too
bountiful to the unfortunate. He has
many dependents. Where have you lived
with your charger
eve lived in America, sometimes in the
woods, and sometimes in towns"
"Has he ever shown hopeful signs of
recovering his reason?'
"None, monsieur the able"
Having touched thus lightly on the case
OF the idiot able Edgeworth turned 10
me. s.e4 rtt
The kings face retained its granite
hardness But Bellenger's passed fror
shade to shade OF bafied confidence; re-
covering only when the priest said:
Now look at this young man. Have
you ever seen him before?"
yes, monsieur, have; both in the
American woods, and in Paris"
What was he doing in the American
woods?"
Living on the bounty OF one Count du
Chaumont. a friend of Bonaparte's."
who he is?''
"A French half-breed, brought up
among the Indians"
What name does ne tear?'
"He is called Lazarre"
But why Is a French half-breed named
Lazsire attempting to force himself on
the exiled court here in Mittau"
People have told him that he resem-
bles the Bourbons, monsieur
was he encouraged in this idea by
the friend of Btnaparte whom You men
| toned"
II think not. monsieur the able But
/ I heard Frenchman tell him he was like
the martyred king, and since that hour
he has presumed to consider himself the
dauphin.'
"Who was this Frenchman?'
''The Duke of Orleans, Louis Philippe
| de Boudbon monsieur the able
| There was an expressive movement
among the courtiers.
WAS Louis Philippe instrumental in
sending him to France? p"
He was. He procured shipping for
the pretender."
when the pretender reached Paris,
| what did ne do2'
"Ife atten pied robbery. and was taken
in the act and thrown into Ste. Pelagie.
| 1 saw him arrested"
What were you doing in PARISH
81 was fc flowing and watching this
| dangerous pretender, monsieur the abbe. .
did you leave America when ne dld?'
/ . A v,S