The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-26
VK = ITH Barbaroux's note of introduce

} wv ton, and slight stock of luggage.
we see Charlotte on Tuesday,
July ., seated in the Caen diligence, with
place for Paris. None takes farewell Of
her, wishes her good-1ourney; her father
will find a line left signifying that she Is
gone to England, that he must pardon her,
and forget her. The drowsy diligence
lumbers along; amid drowsy talk of poll
tics, and praise of the mountain; in which
she mingles not; all night, all day and
again all night. On Thursday. not long
before noon, we are at the bridge of Neuil-
"; here is Paris with her thousand black
domes. the goal and purpose of thy jour
neyi Arrived at the Inn de la Providence
In the Rue des Vieux Augustins, Charlotte
demands room; hastens to bed, sleeps
all afternoon and night, till the morrow
morning.
On the morrow morning she delivers her
note to Duperret. It relates to certain
family papers which are in the minister
OF tho Interiors hand; which nun at
Caen. an,old convent friend of Charlottes s,
has need Of; which Duperret shall assist
her In getting; this then was Charlotte's
ierrand TO Parish She has finished this, in
the course of Friday-yet says nothing of
returning. She has seen and silently in
vestigated several things. The conven-
ton. in bodily reality, she has seen, what
the mountain is like. The living physiog-
Monty of Marat she could not see; he is
sick at present and confined to home
About 8 on the Saturday morning, she
purchases a large sheath-knife In the
Palais Royal; then straightway in tho
Place des Victories takes a hackney
coach: ITO the Rue de rEcole de Mede-
cine, No. a." 1t is the residence of tho
Citoyen Marat. The Citoyen Marat is Ill
and cannot be seen, which seems to disap-
point her very much Her business IS
with Marat, then? Hapless beautiful
Charlotte hapless squalfd Maratl From
Caen in the utmost west, from Neuchatel
In the utmost east, they two are drawing
nigh each other; they two have, very
strangely, business together. Charlotte
returning to her inn dispatches short
note to Marat, sgnifying that she is from
Caen, the seat of rebellion, that she de-
sres earnestly to see him, and will put
II in his power to do France a great SER
vice" No answer. Charlotte wrNZs an
other note. still more pressing; sets out
with It by coach. about in the evening,
herself, Tired day laborers have again
finished their week. huge Paris Is circling
and simmerins, manifold. according to Its
vague wont; this one fair figure has de-
cison in It; drives Straightforward pur-
pose.
1t is yellow July evening, we say, the
18th of the month; eve of the bastille day
when IN. Marat," four years ago in the
crowd of the Pont Neuf shrewdly re-
CURED of that Besenval Hussar party
which had such friendly dispositions. Ito
dismount and give up their arms, then"
and became notable among patriotic men.
-Four years; what a road he has Travelled
land sits now, about half past of the
clock, stewing in slipper bath sore af-
fiicted; Ill Of revolution fever--of what
other malady this history had rather not
name. Excessively sick and worn, poor
man; with precisely elevenpence halfpen.
ny of ready money, in paper; with slip
per bath; strong three-footed stool for
writing on the while, and a squalid-wash-
erwoman, one may call her that Is his
civic establishment in Medical School
street; thither and not elsewhither has his
road led him. Not to the reign of broth
erhood and perfect felicity; yet surely on
the way toward that? Hark, rap again!
A musical woman's voice. refusing to be
rejected; 1t is the Cheyenne who would do
France a service. Marat, recognizing
from within, cries admit her Charlotte
Corday is admitted.
Citoyen Marat, | am from Caen, the
seat of rebellion. and wished to speak with
You. Be seated, mon enfant, Now what
Gre the traitors doing at Caen? What dep
uties are at Caen? Charlotte names some
deputies. Their heads shall fall within
q fortnight" croaks tho eager people $
friend, clutching his tablets to wri9e:
Barbaroux, Potion, writes he with bare
Fhrunk arm, turning aside in the BATH;
Potion and Louvet, and-Charlotte has
drawn her knife from the sheath; plunges
It with one sure stroke into the writer $
heart "A moi, chere annie, help, dearl'
no more could the death-choked say or
Shrek. The helpful washerwoman rum
ming in, there is no friend of the people,
or friend of the washerwoman. left; but
his life with a groan gushes out, indig-
nant, to the shades below.
And so Marat peoples friend is ended;
the lone Stylites has got hurled down sud
denly from his pillar-whltherward He
that made him knows. Patriot Paris may
sound triple and tenfold, in dole and wall
re-echoed by patriotic France; and the
convention, "Chabot pale with terror de.
claring that they are to be all assassi-
mated" may decree him, Pantheon honors
public funeral, Mrabeau's dust making
way for him and Jacobn societies, in la
mentable oratory summing up his charac-
Ter, parallel him to one, whom they think
1t honor to call 1.-THE good Sansculotte' =
Whom we name not here also a chape
may be made for the urn that holds his
heart in the Place du Carrousel; and new.
horn children be named Marat; and Lago-
di-Como Hawkers bake mountains OF stuc'
co into unbeautiful busts; and David pain
his picture or death scene: and such Other
apotheosis take place as the human gen
ius in these circumstances, can devise
but Marat returns no more to the light
Of his sun. One sole circumstance We
have read with clear sympathy In the ole
Monteur newspaper; how Marats brother
comes from Neuchatel to ask of the con-
vention. that the deceased Jean Pau
Marat's musket be given him." For Marat
TOO, had brother, and natural affections
and was wrapt once in swaddling clothes
and slept safe in a cradle like the resi-
OF us. We children of menl A sister oil
his, they say, lives still to this day II
Paris.
AS for Charlotte Corday, her work is ac
cpmplished, the recompense of 1t is neal
and sure. The chere annie. and neighbor'
OF the house, flying at her, she 'overturn'
some movables" entrenches herself til
the gendarmes arrive; then quietly sur
renders goes quietly to the Abbaye pris
ON she alone quiet, all Paris sounding II
wonder, in rage or admiration, round her
Duperret is put in arrest on account o.
her: his papers sealed-which may leat
to consequences. Fauchet In like man
ner though Fauchet had not so much al
heard Of her. Charlotte, confronted will
these two deputies. praises the grave firm
ness of Duperret, censures the detection
OF Fauchet.
On Wednesday morning, the thronge,
Pelais de Justice and Revolutionary trib
mai can see her face; beautiful and calm
she dates 1t Fourth day of the prepare