The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-16
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 The catastrophe was rising najesti- | cally from the sea. The corvette cast l six anchors and her remaining carron- ades were put on the side toward the l enemy. Then the captain said to the
 man In peasants dress l "Sfr We are cramped in our tomb. We must die. But you must iive for without you the monarchy is lost. I | will give you a man and a boat. It | will be not impossible for a small
 craft to escape"
 | The stern old man made a solemn {! sign of aequiesence. A few minutes later he was being rowed through the intricate passages between the rocks.
 Hardly had they gained the reefs before
 the corvette suddenly stood out like ! a black skeleton against a fearful | crimson light. The squadron of the republic had opened fire from three hundred guns.
 In an hour the little boat was far away, heading for France. Long after the battle had sunk below the hori-
 zon of the peasant his ears heard the furious din. Then there came b pro- longed roar that shook the air duliy. The corvette had been blown up. The Asxt day. ia thicket on the Breton coast. there was a strange spectacle. A thousand men, armed WlhAh 8MHns BCykaG1s RDIGb, D8YoM9E0 and swords. were on their knees be- fore the man who had escaped from the sea. Their eyes, full Of terrible fire, were fixed on him with q sort of savage worship.
 A young man stepped forth. Mar quis," said he, 'there are seven thou sand of us in these woods Tomorrow there will be fifteen thousand. This morning we attacked Yonder farm, uh hn haffnfinr af EnnnA6- Rouge were encamped. We have cap- tured them all. What shall we do with the wounded and the prisonersr'
 Shoot them"
 There are two women"
 shoot them. And burn the farm and the hamlet for giving shelter to the enemy"
 A month later four men were gath cred in the back room of a house in Paris. One of these was Robespierre. The second was Danton. The third was Marat. The fourth was a man ob- seure. humble; but he belonged to the Eveche.
 Under the most revolutionary, there Ia 8 aub-soil and the brAvest stop in alarm when they feel beneath their feet the movement that they have caused above their heads The Com mune watched the Convention, the Eveche watched the Commune. Marat defied the Convention. led the Com rnune and feared the Eveche. In that Eveche this fourth man was Q silent tragic power.
 His name was Cimeurdain. No one today knows 1t. History has more than one such terrible Unknown.
 Cimourdain had been . priest. He had ceased to believe. but at soul he was still a priest, gloomy, spotlese, with endless pity for the wretched and endless hatred for monarchy. Like the sea eagle, he gloried in the mad dened tempest of the Revolution. When Europe attacked France and France attacked Paris he prayed that his goddess might in time of need cast an internal glare at the demons land pay them back terror for terror.
 To this, man Rebespierre was say ing:
 ing to be tremendous. He is the Mar. quis de Lantenac, who calls hfmself Prince of Brittany"
 "I know him" said Cinourdatn. T was a priest at his castle"
 "He is frightful," said Robespierre. He burns villages, massacres the prisoners, shoots women. Citizen Ct- mourdain, this man is the greatest dan ger now to the republic. One Vendee is more dangerous to Francs than ten Germanys. He must be taken and guiIlotined. You will be commissioned by the Committee of Public Weltare with full power"
 T accept" said Cimourdain.
 You will be sent as delegate to the commandant of the column that ts acting against Lantenac. He is 8 young man, and is showing admirable bravery and intelligence. For two weeks he-has held the old marquis in check"
 Marat. ''Clemency! A crime! What would you do with Republican gen. eral who gave a Royalist general his
 "I should have him gu:llotinad with in twenty-tour hours" answered Ctm- ourdain.
 Here are the papers" said Robes nierre. "Citizen Cimourdain, the com taandant over whom you will have full power, is a former viscount. His name Is Gauvain.Y
 Cinourdain's face grew pale as death.
 This ayenger, who loved mankind. reserved nothing. from that love ex- cepting only one human being--a pupil whom he had taught and formed, of whose mind he had became the father, whom he had come to love ineffably, pouring out on him all the affection that another man might have lavished on woman. And that pupil was Gauvafn-and Gauyain was the nephew and heir of the Marquis de Lantenac, the scourge of Brittany!
 When Cimourdain reached Brittany he found evidences everywhere of the added fierceness that this relationship rave to the war in La Vendee. Pla- ca ards signed by the Marquis promised his nephew a speedy death if captured PIaeards signed by GauvaIn responded in kind. As if to add lust to lust, pla- cards of the republic fiauntered another decree of death to all who might con. n.ve at helping royalist prisoners to escape.
 when Cimourdain came into the ter ribIe forest country he learned that the Marquis had struck at the town of Dol because it would give him e fastness on the coast where the English could land forces to help him; and 0auvain had hastened with an inferior force to rout him out.
 Dreaming of no attack the peasants encamped carelessly in the market place and Lantenac rode on with h.s ofacers to investigate the points for a coast battery to cover an English land ing. Thus it happened that before messengers could bring him back to take command GauvaIn burst on the town, surrounded 1t and drove the peasants or in wild panic.
 When all was over 9auvain ap- preached a wounded peasant and said; ''You are my prisoner. You are 6 brave fellow. Come you are wounded" And ha hAId ont his hand to him,