The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
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Dy Sue after ne had tried his hand at novels based on his career in the French navy. These early stories, practically forgotten now, had made him the idol of France, vixen he chang - his method entirely and began to spread on immense canvases his epi- sodal stories with a purpose-"The Mysteries of Paris" and The Wan dering Jew" which latter novel appear ed soon after the fame of the former had made Sues name Known through the world.
 The Wandering Jew" is by far the greater as concerns literary style poe- try, and sweeping imagination. in con- ception and treatment. The present novel excels it, however. in variety and rapidity of action"
 The reader of today must remember that he is reading a novel written by close student of sociology and socf- ety, who deals with a time when the galleys were fed with criminals only Go disgorge them again many more times wicked than when they went in.
 This knowledge is necessary to pre- vent the assumption that "The Mys- teries of Paris" Is merely and purely melodrama. The world of crime there described. which is quite impossible to- day was legitimate frutiage of the galleys and the prisons.
 Ah <he DeBlhnlnS or the second quar- ter of the nineteenth century the most brilliant and admired among the .sov- ereisns of Europe was the Grand Duke of Gerolstein, Gustavus Rudolph.
 Clever, handsome, a man of singular strength both mental and physical, ruler of one of the richest of the states of the Germanic Federation, his let seemed so happy that to name him was to envy.
 Even his court looked upon him as a mortal happy beyond a doubt. Only one man. old Sir Walter Murphy, an English baronet. who had trained him in boyhood and had been his adviser and friend ever since, knew the re- morse that preyed on the Grand Duke continually.
 To man of lesser mind and soul the fault for which Rudolph of Gerol- stein suffered might have seemed slight, especially In sovereign; but the Grand Duke. reared during all his youth in the simple pursuits of wood and field and trained to the cfearest possible sense of private honor and royal duty by the honest, simple Engiishman, made his life one of expiatfon for a misdeed that had been forgotten by the world.
 It had occurred when he was eigh-, teen. Sir Walter had gone temporarily to England and Rudolph was placed
  Dr. Caesar Polidori, an Italian. as url-, scrupulous as he was learned.
 Bent on attaining riches and power, Polidori knew that both could be mora readily gained under a corrupt r,,Ie than under a strict, grave court. or Fanized with typically German propri- iety such as Gerolstein then was un- fer Rudolph's father. He set about he work of corruptIng the heir with such cunning that Rudolph insensibly Yell under his speIl.
 Before Sir Walter returned Polidori aad made such progress that he began to see in himself the future RfchelieiI to hefyoung Prince. 4s
 As if to play into his hands, a beau. tfful Scotchwoman arrived at court She was Lady Sarah McGregor-a wo- man who to rare charms of person added a mind that was as ambitious and cold as that of PoIldori himsaff She had come to Gerolstein with the determination to become the wife of the future sovereign.
 With the keen scent of one adven- turer for another, the Italian perceiv- ed her plan and resolved to aid her. With all his arts of suggestion and in- trigue he helped her arts of allure nent. Within a few months Rudolph was doundering in the net. overwheln- cd by an infatuation that the country bred young Prince imagined to be love.
 Infatuated though he was he was not blind enough to imagine that the Grand Duke would permit a marraige. He lent a ready ear, therefore. to Poli- doris suggestion that there be a pri- vate wedding.
 Sarah consented willingly. The Grand Duke was old and inlrm, and she expected that it would not be long before she would be able to appear as the Grand Duchess and take her place among the sovereigns of Europe
 But the old ruler did not die as she had hoped. She became more and more impatient. At last her fixed am bition to ascend a throne became overpowering and destroyed even her cool judgment.
 She betrayed her secret purposely to the court. The Grand Duke, furious at the revelation Of what struck him as little short of disgrace, swore that he would place her in the pillory.
 Rudolph carried away by rage, drew his sword and attacked his father. be- ing prevented from patricide only by the CHortune arrival of Sir Walter who G-sarmed him.
 He was imprisoned secretly, Poli- dori, arrested at the same time con- fessed' and furnished proofs that the marriage had been mock one. ar ranged by himself so that he should have double power. He gave up sa- rah's letters in which she spoke with icy disdain of the Prince, disclosing her real character and making no con- eea1ment of the fact that she had lured him into marriage merely to satisfy her ambition.
 The venerable Grand Duke. without a word of reproach showed his son the letters. Rudolph fell on his knees and asked pardon. Like a sudden flame the disclosure awoke his soul and effaced from it what he had thought was love- He consented at once to the annul- ment of the marriage and left Germany with Sir Walter on a long voyage
 Then, began an equation as original as 1t was ambitions Unable to for give himself for having embittered his fathers last years he vowed 10 give up his whole life to personal efforts to help the needy. succor the suffering save the persecuted and punish the guilty.
 He had been on the throne for more than twelve years when one of these errands brought him to Paris. It was to seek for the son of Mrs. George a kinswoman of the Marquis d'Harville. whom Rudolph loved sincerely.
 She had been married to a member of the National Assembly. Anselm Du- resneI. who squandered her estate as well as his own and finally committed a forgery for which he was sentenced to fifteen years in the galleys. In or der to extract more money from his wife he arranged with a convict who