Evening journal., 1903-01-22
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r61Bn OF terror one uhy the uuke was
led out to execution and Jean learned
that Louise was to suffer the same fate
In order that the family Of arlstocrats
might become extinct, he resolved to
snve her even If he lost his own life in
doing so.
In drawing the dukes will Jean had
noticed that provision was made for
the return Of a son and heir TO the es-
tate who had gone to America with La
fayette to take part in the American
Revolution and had been reported miss
ing after one of the battles in which the
French troops were engaged. Jean went
TO the Chateau Favette, procured n
likeness of this young man and hired
costumer to make him up to resemble
the subject of the picture. Then, seek
ing an old woman who had been his
lalmdress for years, he gave her all the
money he possessed to sign a statement
that she had carried child to the Cha
teau Favette twenty years before who
had been adopted by the duchess in
place OF her own child, still born, and
without the dukes knowledge of the
substitution.
II was the day appointed for the ex-
ecution Of Louise de Ia Favette. Jean
as soon as the tribunal whose sole busi-
ness it was to bring aristocrats to the
guillotine came together walked up to
the desk before the president and said:
"Citizen, am Antoine de Ia Favette,
Just returned from America, where l
have been fighting the great battle
which you are fighting here-the bat
tie Of human liberty. l find that you
have executed my father and my sis
ter is to die today. If you desire to cut
off our family completely, you must ex
ecute me and not the young girl who is
supposed to me my sister, for she is not
La Favette, having been adopted by
my mother without her knowledge"
"What proof have you of the truth
OF what you say?" asked the citizen
judge.
Il may easily be identified from por-
traits of me in the Chateau Favette.
Besides, my father must have left a
will. In that will he surely made pro-
vision for my return, for he had no
proof of my death As to proof of my
statement respecting my supposed sis
ter, l have provided myself with the
sworn statement of Rachel Duprey
who carried the babe to the chateau"
The citizen judge looked at the young
man who proposed to give his life for
another with astOnishment, then read
Rachel Duprey's statement
ARREST this man and stay the execu-
ton Of Citizeness Favette."
Jean was imprisoned in the concier-
gerie while the court investigated the
truth of his statement. The viii Of
the late duke on file verified Jeans
statement as to the missing heir, and
Rachel Duprey stood by her written af-
fidavit that she had carried Louise to
the chateau. The court was too busily
engaged in It's bloody work to probe
the matter and decided to consider Jean
the rightful heir to the Favette estate.
The next question was. should he, hav-
ing voluntarily given himself up, be
executed. He had fought in the cause
of liberty in America and had acted
nobly in presenting himself to save
Louise But he was the Duke de- Ia
Favette, and the revolutionists wished
to exterminate his family and to get
possession Of his estate. Therefore aft
er a spirited debate it was voted to ex-
ecute him.
One morning a soldier entered the
conciergerle and read the names Of a
number Of persons there who were to
be taken out for execution. One OF
them was Citizen Favette.
Louise, who supposed that the mar
had made an error in reading citizeI
{ instead Of citizeness, was trying t
get up from her chair to go to hel
death when she saw a young man ris'
and take his place among the con
! demned. The next moment the soldiel
read:
"She who was known as Citizenes
Favette is free 10 60"
When the batch was completed anC
the prisoners were filing out, Jean
passing Louise, whispered in her ear:
Il die for you because l love you"
After the restoration Of the Bourbon
the Duke de Ia Favette returned t
l | france. lie uau Deen iell loI Nedu vi
a battlefield. taken by a trapper west
ward and captured by a tribe of In
dams in the then wilderness of OhiC
In Paris he found his sister, who ha
! learned something Of the plan b
; which she had been saved from deatl
Nothing that had been done by tn
revolutionists stood under the new r'
gime, and the duke found little difiicu
/ ty In regaining his estates.
s Louise de la Favette never married
considering herself the wife Of the ma
who had died for her. So long as sh
lived she made pilgrimages to the cem'
terry Of Pere la Chaise to place flower
S on the grave of Jean Truville, an
when she died she was laid beside hin
LAURA EGERTON.