The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-31
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in anaazemen&, Lucia and her fatherl
 She panted in his arms. sohs my dear friends' cried she. Charles. my husbandl An errand of generosity brought him here. He was stopped as the barrier and sent to prisons charged with being returned aristocratl'
 Quickly they told Mir Isorry that Cherries Darnay really was the Mar Quis st. Evramond, and that he was In the prison La Force.
 .La Forcsl' cried Mr. Lorry. 'Lucie. my child. i'if ever you were brave and sorviceable in your fife, compose your self now and do exactly as I bid you. You must go into the back room here and leave your father and me alone for two minutes, and aB there are life and death in the world you must not deIavr
 He kissed her and hurried her away Outside a great bell had begun to ring and MT. Lorry stepped to the window with the doctor.
 They looked out upon a throng la boring at the griudstoues There was not one creature there free from the stain of blood. Hatchets. knives. bayr onets swords, brought to be sharpen. ed. were All red with it.
 They ara" whispered Mr. Lorrys glancing fearfuliy around the room numbering the prisoners.r
 The doctor turned with cool. bold face and said;
 T have a charmed life in France. have been Bastille prisoner. There Is no patriot in France who would touch me save to overwheln me with em- braces My old pain has given me a power that brought us through the bar- rieF and gave Us news of Charles. I will make myself known 10 these devils and get myself taken to La Force3
 He hastened bareheaded from the room. Tn an instant MT. Lorry saw him in the midst of great crowd. all linked hand to hand who hurried away with shouts of Live the Bas4iile pris- onart Help for the Bastille prisoners kindred in La Forcer
 Dr.. Manette did not return for four | days. Not until long afterward did Lucie know that during that fearful time eleven hundred prisoners had been killed
 Tn the prison sat a self-appointed tribunal, before which the prisoners were brought singly and rapidly or- dsred Co be massacred or released. pr. Manette's influence had sufficed to save Charles but only to the extent of having him returned safely to prts- | on and kept there inviolate.
 Now began a new and anxious life | for pr. Manette. For one year and | three months Charles lay in prison. I released or brought to trial. He walk l ed with a steady head among terrors. The rivers of the South were incum- bered by the bodies of the dead. Pris- l oners were shot in squares and lines. The hideous figure of the guillotine | grew as familiar as If 1t had been be- fore the general gaze from the foun- dalton Of the world.
 l Among all this no man was better | known than he in all Paris, Silent humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, the work, the appearance and l the story Of the Bastiile Prisoner set him apart. He was never suspected fin that time of suspicion or denounced in that time of denupciation.
 At last Charles Evermonde, called l Darnay,"s was brought forward for trial before the i've judges in the feath. | cred hats. He told how he had given | up his estates and earned his own | living in England, and that he had re- l turned not in defiance of the republic but to save the life of his steward.
 On this Gabelle was brought In and liberated. So caprlciously were the people moved that tears rolled down l several ferocious faces who had been | glaring at the prisoner a moment be- fore with impatienee to pluck him out into the street and kill him.
 | When pr. Manette arose to give his testimony the populaee roared for ac. .auittai. and the jury gratifed them The crowd raised him In great chail and bore him, shouting and with q
 waving of red caps on bikes, to hil
 wife
 That evening while Mss Pross wal on her nightly errand of purchasing
 food Charles, his wife, little Lucte and
 the doctor were sitting quietly be-
 side the fire when there came tramp ling of feet. blow was struck al
 the door Four men with sabres and i. pistols entered and arrested Darnay again. ''FIe has been denounced" said
 one to the doctor, "by the Citizen and Citizeness Defarge-and by one other What other?" asked the doctor' @You will be answered tomorrow ? , sald ona of the four with a strangt look.