Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-27
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room in one of the official buildings Of
Paris. 1t is another July evening, as
fine as that evening when he and Tru
dame sat talking together on the bench
overlooking the Seine. The window of
the room is partly open, and faint,
pleasant breeze is beginning to flow
| through it now. LomaQue breaths I'M
easily, as if still oppressed by the sui
try midsummer heat; and there are
signs of perplexity and trouble in his
face as he looks down absently now and
| then into the street.
The times he lives in are enough of
themselves to sadden his face. In the
Reign of Terror no living being in AL
the city of Paris can rise in the morning
and be certain OF escaping the spy, the
arrest, or the guillotine before night
Such times are trying enough to OPP
press any mans spirits; but Lomaque is
| not thinking of them now. Out of
mass of papers which lie before him
on his old writing table, he has just
taken up and read one, which has car
ried his thoughts back to the past, and
to the changes which have taken place
since he stood alone on the doorstep of
| Trudaines house, pondering on what
might happen.
More rapidly even than he had fore
BODIED, those changes had occurred. In
! less time even than he had anticipated
the sad emergency for which Roses
brother had prepared, as for a barely
possible calamity, overlook Trudaine,
and called for all the patience, the cour-
| age, the self-sacrifice, which he had to
give for his sisters sake. By slow
gradations downward, from bad to
worse, her husbands character mani
| tested itself less and less disguisedly
almost day by day. Occasional Sights
ending in habitual neglect; careless es-
arrangement turning to cool enmity;
small insults which ripened evilly to
| great injuries-these were the pitiless
signs which showed her that she had
risked all and lost all while still a
young WOman-these were the unmer-
| tied Affections which found her help
less, and would have left her helpless,
but for the ever-present comfort and
support Of her brothers self-denying
love- From the first, Trudaine had de-
| voted himself to meet such trials as
now assaulted him; and like man he
met them, in defiance alike of persecu-
ton from the mother and of insult from
the son.
The hard task was only lightened
when, as time advanced, public trouble
began to mingle itself with private
grief. Then absorbing political neCes-
stiles came as a relief to domestic mis-
cry. Then it grew to be the one pur
pose and pursuit of Danville's life cum
ningly to shape his course so that he
might move safely onward with the ad-
yancing revolutionary tide-he cared
| not whittier, as long as he kept his pos
| sessions safe and his life out of danger.
| His mother, infiexibly true to her old
world convictions through all peril,
might entreat and upbraid, might talk
| of honor. and courage, and sincerity
| he needed her not, or needed only to
! laugh. AS he had taken the false way
/ with his wife, so he was now bent on
! taking it with the world
| The years passed on; destroying
| changes swept hurricane-like over the
old governing system of France; and
| still DanviIIe shifted successfully with
/ the shifting times The first days Of
| the Terror approached; in public and in
| private-in high places and in low
! each man now suspected his brother.
| Crafty as Danville was, even he fell
under suspicion at last, at headquar-
| tiers in Paris, principally on his moth
| er's account This was his first politi-
| cal failure, and in a moment of thought
| less rage and disappointment, he
Wreaked the irritation caused by it on
| Lomaque Suspected himself he in
turn suspected the land steward. His
mother fomented the uspicion-Loma-
| que was dismissed
| In the old times the victim would
! have been ruined-in the new times he
was simply rendered eligible for po-
| litical vocation in life. Lomaque was
poor, quick witted, secret, not scrupu-
/ Ious. He was a good patriot, he had
/ SCOQ patriot IFI0HuS, plenty VI oAhDA
| ton, subtle, cat-like courage, moth
! ing to dread-and he went to Paris.
| There were plenty of small chances
| there for men Of his calibre. He waited
! for one of them. 1t came; he made the
most of it; attracted favorably the no.
| tice of the terrible FouquierTinville;
and won his way to place in the Of
| flee of the Secret Police.
Meanwhile Danville's anger cooled
| down; he recovered the use OF that cum
ming sense which had hitherto served
him we'll, and sent to recall the discard
ed servant. It was too late. Lomaque
was already in position to set him at
defiance-nay, to put his neck, perhaps,
under the blade of the guillotine. Worse
than this, anonymous letters reached
, him, warning him to lose no time in
proving his patriotism by some indis-
putable sacrifice, and i'll ssilencing his
mother, whose imprudent sincerity
was likely ere long to cost her her life.
| Danville knew her we'll enough to know
that there was but one way of saving
her, and thereby saving himself. She
had always refused to emigrate; but he