The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-16

as his countenance. His virtues were solid and rare, and though now only 25 years old, he had done heroic work as a mis- slonary in the wilds of America.
 With no regard for worldly wealth, he had given up willingly to the Marquis q 'Aigrigny his part of the family inher- ftance. but now announced to the Pro- vincial that he desired to leave the order and henceforth be a country curate over some poor and obscure parish
 The house having been opened by the workmen, the aged Jew conducted his visitors to the red chamber.
 A ta ble covered with crminson velvet stood in the centre of the salon.
 Here" said the Jew, Ifs the account, and according to the Instructions of my father I am to place it on this table be- fore the arrival of the heirs" A bright ray of light streaming through the win dow shone full upon two portraits. One was the portrait of that strange being whom we have seen, his footsteps dog ged by the cholera, descending the bar ren hill on the confines of Poland. The other portrait was that of woman of % or 30 years old, with face at once beautiful and sad, expressive of suppli- cation and resignation
 Gabriel Rennepont started as he be- held il and uttered a slight cry. Tt is JuSl eiBHl iHOntIS since. Sa1d ne m voice profoundly agitated. T was in power of the Indians in the Rocky noun tains. They had fastened me to a cross and had begun to scalp me when Divine Providence sent me unexpected succor. It was that woman who saved me. Or at least,' he added recolecting the century and a half the old house had been sealed up and confronted with the apparent age of the painting, it was a woman who I,1 s.. form. The mysteries of nature and the will of God are impenetrable"
 The hour of 10 having arrived-the hour appointed-the notary declared that the
 only heir of Marius de Rennepont who had arrived being Gabriel, he opened the will i, his presence. The will was read
 Rodin forgetting himself in his exulta- ton, ciasped the box in which the secur- ities were contained with both arms and could scarce refrain from cry of triumph. But just at that moment there came the noise of an opening door and a woman glided into the salon.
 She approached a "secretaire" and, talk ing from 1t a paper placed it on the table. Then casting look, melancholy but sweet, upon Gabriel, she went out of the room amid a profound silence of astonishment
 The woman was she who had saved Gabriel in the Rocky mountains the orig inal of the picture over the mantel-piece |. was Herodias.
 With trembling hands Samuel took the paper which the mysterious woman had laid before him, and with the notary com pared the signature with that affixed to the will. Tt Is a codicil," he said, sign ed by Marius de Rennepont and adjourns till June 1, 1892. the dispositions men, tioned in the will"
 Rodin had let d'Airgrigny go on in his schemes for obtaining the Rennepont in- heritance, because they were for the time successful: but he was revolted by their crudeness and their lack of thoroughness Adrieune de Cardovllle would undoubt- edly be released from her confinement l upon the return of the Count de Mont bron, who had been a close friend of her father. General Simon was about to arrive in Paris and would claim his children: Djalma, who had been drugged the day before by his attendant must be already awakening from his stupor; M Hardy was on his way home and Jacques Rennepont might be released from his debtors prison by some of his relatives So when Rodin and the Marquis were again alone together, and the latter said
 We are defeated;" the former, pointing to the table, said: "Write." and took from his pocket an order from the Gen eral of the Jesuits appointing him Pro vincial, with DAigrigny as his secretary Rodin now began to work on a new plan, plan such as he alone could carry out with certainty-to destroy the heirs each by his own passions and vices, his loves and his hates First he hastened tc release Adrienne de Cardoville. Adrienns was nearly 21 years of age, with q 1 countenance of remarkable beauty Her understanding was remarkable for It, 1 originality her appreciation quick, hei | love of beauty almost overwhelming, heI l fortune immense. Her independent mod, | of life and her free thought had mad,
 it comparatively easy for her aunt, tn,
 Princess Saint -Dizier. under D'Aigrigny'!