The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31


 1 He hastened bareheaded from the room. ] In an instant MT. Lorry saw him in the midst of a great crowd all linked hand to hand, who hurried away with shouts | of "Live the Bastille prisonerl Help for l the Bastille prisoners kindred in La
 Forcel''
 Dr. Manette did not return for four f, days Not until long afterward did Lucie
 know that during that fearful time 100
 prisoners shad been killed.
 In the prison sat se1f-appointed tri-
 bunal, before which the prisoners were
 brought singly and rapidly ordered to be
 massacred or released pr. Manette's in- , huence had sufficed to save Charles, but
 only to the extent of having him returned
 safely to prison and kept there inviolate. 1 Now began a new and anxious life for Dr. Manette. For one year and three
 months Charles lay in prison, and ne
 strove unavailingly to have him released
 or brought to trial. He walked with q steady head among terrors. The rivers of
 the south were incumbered by the bodies of the dead. Prisoners were shot in
 squares and lines. The hideous figure of the guillotine grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from i the foundation of the world. Among all this no man was better
 known than he in all Paris. Silent, hu-
 mane, indispensable in hospital and pris-
 on, the wor.-, the appearance and the
 story of the Bastile Prisoner set him apart He was never suspected in that time of suspicion or denounced in that time of denunciation. At last Charles Evremonde called Dar- nay" was brought forward for trial be-
 fore the five judges in the feathered hats. He told how he had given up his estates and earned his own living In England. and that he had returned not in defiance of the republic, but to save the life of his steward
 On this Gabelle was brought in and lib-
 erated. So capriciously were the people moved that tears rolled down several fe- rocious faces who had been glaring at the prisoner a moment before with impa-
 tience to pluck him out into the street and kill him.
 When Dr. Manette arose to give his tes- timony the populace roared for acquittal, and the jury gratified them. The crowd raised him in a great chair and bore him, shouting and with waving of red caps on bikes. to his wife. That evening while Miss Pross was on her nightly errand of purchasing food Charles. his wife, little Lucie and the doctor were sitting quietly beside the fire when there came a trampling of feet. A blow was struck at the door, Four men
 with sabres and pistols entered and ar
 rested Darnay again. He had been de-
 nounced," said one to the doctor, "by Cit izen and Citizeness Defarge-and by one other.' What other??" asked the doctor. s"You win be answered tomorrow" said one of the four with a strange look. When that tomorrow came there was no jury eager to lberate, no population ready with tears and emotion. A word had gone among them. It made eye seek 1 eye in the crowd with a meaning, de- termined murderous look. 1 "Charles Evremonde, called Darnay! Released yesterday, reaccused and retak- 1 en yesterday, denounced as one of a race 1 proscribed for infamous oppression! Is { the accused openly denounced or &C., 1 cretlyT'
 "Openly, President" "By whom?" "Three voices. Ernest Defarge, wine vendor of Saint Antoine" "Good."
 "Therese Defarge. his wife" "Good." "AIexander Manette, physician" | A great shout ran out. Dr. Manette arose, trembling. Ills protests were l lost in the yell of the mob. l Ernest Defrage pressed forward.
 "I knew that this prisoner" said he