The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-16

herftance, but now announced to the Provincial 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 table covered with crimson velvet stood in the centre of the salon.
 Here" said the Jew, is the &C., count, and according to the instructions of my father I am to place it on this table before the arrival of the heirs" bright ray of light streaming through the window shone full upon two DOT traits. One was the portrait of that strange being whom we have seen, his footsteps dogged by the cholera, de- scending the barren hill on the con- fines of Poland. The other portrait was that of a woman of 25 or 30 years sad, expressive of application and resignation.
 Gabriel Rennepont started as he be- held it and uttered a slight cry. "It Is just eight months since" said he, in a voice profoundly agitated. "I was in power of the Indians in the Rocky Mountains. They had fastened me to a cross and had begun to scalp me when Divine Providence sent me un- expected succor. It was that woman who saved me. Or at least" he added. recollecting the century and half the old house had been sealed up and con- fronted with the apparent age of the painting, 'ft was in face and 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 Renne- pont who mad arrived being Gabriel, he opened the will in his presence. The will was read. Rodin, forgetting himself in his exultation, clasped the box in which the securities were con- tained with both arms and could scarce refrain from a cry of triumph But just at that moment there came the noise of an opening door and woman glided into the salon.
 She approached "secretaire" and, taking from 1t a paper. placed 1t on the table. Then casting a look, melan- choly but sweet. upon Gabriel, she went out of the room amid profound silence of astonishment.
 The woman was she who had saved Gabriel in the Rocky Mountains. the original of the picture over the mantel- piece. It was Herodias.
 With trembling hands Samuel took the paper wh ich the mysterious woman had laid before him, and with the notary compared the signature with that affixed to the will. Tt Is codi- cll," he said, signed by Marius de Rennepont and adjourns till June 1, 1892, the dispositions mentioned in the will"
 Rodin had let D'Aigrigny go on in his schemes for obtaining the Renne- pont inheritance, because they were for the time successful; but he was re- voIted by their crudeness and their 1aa alr aP thnr0nUhnaG9 AdriAnnA de Cardoville would undoubtedly be re- leased from her confinement upon the return of the Count de Montbron. 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 all ready awakening from his stupor; NJ. Hardy was on his way home and Jaques Rennepont might be released from his debtors prison by some of hts 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 General of the Jesuits appointing him Provincial, with D'Aigrigny as his secretary.
 Rodin now began to work on a nc= plan, a plan such as he alone could carry out with certainty-to destroy the heirs each by his own passion and vices, his loves and his hates. First. he hastened to release Adrienne de Cardoville Adrienne was nearly 2i years of age, with a countenance of remarkable beauty. Her understand ing was remarkable for It's originality. her appreciation quick. her love of beauty almost overwhelming, her for tune immense. Her independent mode of 70 and her free thought had made it mparatively easy for her aunt. q 'rincess Saint-Dizier. under D. Ail .tgny's influence. to spread abroad reports of her niece's strange actions and then, by bribing a doctor com pletely under the influence of D'Aig- rigny, to have her conveyed to an asy- lum.
 From documents in her possession Adrienne knew that Prince DJalma and the daughters of General simon were her relatives, and learning that