The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19

increasing DAY by day ana day Dy DAY
] the latter had grown more sullen and
i 4resentful Al9the while tie poor, down
1 trodden people of Paris were plotting
and planning secretly to rise In rebellion,
| kill the "a King and Queen and all " the
mobiles. seize their riches and govern
Franco themselves. Rs II
The center9of this plotting was De-
| fargo. tho 8keejer OF the wine shop. who
had cared for Or. Alanette when lie had
| first been released from prison. Defarge
and those he sllrusted met and planned
often in the very room where Mr.. sLorry
and Lucie Ind found her IA Their making
shoes. They kept record Of all acts
Of cruelty toward the poor committed
by the nobility. determining that when
they themselves should be strong Tough
those thus guilty should be killed, their
fine houses burned. and all IS q their d 'a-
scendants put to death so That n OF even
their names Y should remain in France.
This was a. wicked and awful determine
tion.S but these poor wretc ed people had
been mao es to suffer all their ives and
their parents before them and centuries
OF oppression had killed all their pity and
made them as fierce as wild beasts that
only wait FOR their cagesBto be opened 70
destroy all sin$ their path. a ii,
81 They were afraid. OF course. to keep any
written listEof people they had thus con-
jdemned, SO Madame Defarge, the wife OF
the wine seller used to knit t he names
in fine stitches into a long piece Of knit
ting that she seemed always to be at work 'rl
OIL. 80 *
Madame Lefarge was a stout woman
with big coarse hands and eyes that
never seemed to look at any one,2Sy yet
saw Eeyerythingath that happened. She X was
as strong as man and every one was
somewhat afraid q, her. She was even ven
crueler and more resolnte than her hus-z
band She 3nsedstoasit knitting all day
in the 9dirty wine hop wat ching and lis
.tening, and knitting in nam es OF people
whom she hoped soon to see killed. rs si
$s One OF the hated names tina t she knitted
over. and over again was 1Evremonde."
The: laborer who In the madness of his
grief for his dead child had murdered the
Marquis st. Evremonde. Darnays
hard hearted uncle, had been caught and
hanged; and because Of this Defarge and
his wife and the other plotters had con-
!demned all Of the name Of tEvremonde to
death, ,8S
II Meanwhile the King and Queen OF!
France and allSstheir gay and careless
court OF mobiles Toasted and danced d, as
3l1eedlessly as ever. They did not see
the storm rising The bitter taxes still
went on. The wine-shop OF Defarge looked
as peaceful as ever, but the men who
drank there now were dreaming OF MUIR
der and revenge And the half-starved
women, who sat and looked on rs the.
gilded coaches Of the rich rolled through
the streets, We're 7sullenly waiting-watch-s
ing Nine. Defarge as she silently knitted,
knitted into her work ines whose own,
ers the people had condemned to death
without mercy. Sss /, 8 l.ss a
4 One day this#frightful human storm,
which for so many years had been
gathering In France, burst over Paris.
Tho poor people rose by thousands, seized
whatever weapons thsy could get-guns.
axes, or even stones Of the strect-and,i
led by Defarge and his tigerish wife, set
out to avenge their, wrongs. Their rage,
turned first of all against the Bastille,l
the old stone prison In which so many
OF their kind had died, where Dr.. Manettc
for eighteen years had made shoes. They
beat down the thick walls and Ebutchered
the soldiers who defended 1t, and re-
leased the prisoners. And wherever they
saw one of the Kings uniforms they
hanged the wearer to the nearest lamp
post 1t was the beginning OF the terri
bic revolution In France that was to end
In the murder OF thousands of innocent
lives. 1t was the beginning Of time,
when Paris streets were to run with
blood when all the worst passions of the
people were loosed, and when they went
mad with the joy OF revenge. h
The, storm spread over Ffance--to the
Village where the great chateau Of the
l1vremonde family stood, and tho peas
ants set fire to 1t and burned 1t to the
ground. and because he was its custo-
dian for Darnay, the new MARQUIS Eyre
monde, whom they had never seen, but
yet hated. they seized Gabelle, the SER
want whom Darnays had left In charge
and put him in prison. They stormed the
royal palace and arrested the King and
Queen, threw all who bore noble names
or titles into dungeons, and as they
had planned, SGT up q government OF their
own. IN g $3 I
{Durnay, safe in London with Luce
knew little and thought less of all this,
till he received y a pltiful letter from
Gabelle. who expected each morning to
be dragged out to- be killed, telling Of the
plight into which his faithfulness had
brought him, and beseechlns his masters
aid U q a
This letter made Darnay most uneasy.
He blamed himself, because he knew = q
was his fault that Gabele had been left
SO long in such a 4 dangerous post, he
knew his own family, the Eyre,nopdes,
had been greatly hated, but he thought
thu fact that be himself had refused to
he one of them, and had given his SYM
pathy ratherltotthe people hey opprcss-
cd, would make 1t possible for him TO obs
tain Gahele's release And With this
!dea he determined 70 SO himself to Pafis,3
ua knew the very thought Of bis go-
Ing, now that France was mad with 8ylo-5
lence, would Brighten I.ucie. 90 he de-
termined not fost tell her. He pa ked some
clothing hurriedly. and left secretl Y, send
ing a letter. back to Lucie telling her
where and why he was going, And by
The time she read this he was well on
his way from Eng land, I,
i u,arnav Ind expected TO find no trouble