The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14
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Rudolph with light of triumph In hel dark eyes.
 aRudolph" she cried almost as soor as he entered "Our child is not dead!'
 The Grand Duke leaped to his feel and with a trembling voice said. You are not trying to deceive mei'
 sTherei, The proofs. Stained with my blood" said Sarah, pointing to the fragmentary confession of the Screech owl.
 Rudolph turned white. He stag gered and the paper dropped from his hands He looked at Sarah with a growing horror.
 T wrote to you that our child was dead" said Sarah, because wished to revenge myself on you. When she was years old I gave her to Mime, Sera- phine, the widow of an old servant. to bring up. I placed 100000 francs with 6 lawyer. Jacques Ferrand, for her sup port. At the end of year they wrote to me that she was dead. Recently. when my husband died and almost at the same time, you became a widower. determined to produce young girl and declare that she was our daughter, knowing that you would legitimatize her by marrying me. In looking for a girl Providence led me to an old wo- man called Screech Owl l showed her this picture. She recognized it as that < of a girl given to her by a convict, who had obtained her from Mime sera- phine."
 Rudolph stared at the picture. There could be no mistake. Twelve years. though they were twelve years of un- sised the beauty of the child.
 He began to sob--terrible sobs that shook him as an epochai tempest shakes rocks.
 'sThe Goualeuse-our child-and they have killed her." gasped he at lasts
 Sarah looked at him with lips apart and a stony face.
 forcing himself to speak conectedly, al- though his brain was a-whirl, they have killed her. Good and provident mother. do you know what this child was?"
 Tn flood of passionate words he poured out the story of poor La Goual- euse. Die. wretch. die!" he screamed. frightful with rage. when he had end ed. 'Diel" and rushed from the room. leaving Sarah insensible.
 Overwhelmed with fury, he drove straight to the house of Jacques Fer rand, meaning to kill the lawyer with his own hand, It was no longer th q Grand Duke Guerolstein doing Justice It was father seeking the life of a wretch who had killed his child's soul and body.
 But the colder. sterner and far more impressive justice that he had set into motion against the villain was before him. For Jacques Ferrand an the tor- ture and anguish that he had caused his victims through many years had been compressed for him into a few days by terrible ingenuity.
 Poiidorf had been granted a reprieve by the Grand Duke on condition that he so to Ferrand. tell him how he had been betrayed and inform him that he could save his life only by doing min utely what the Grand Duke had planned for him.
 Ferrand went almost mad when he learned the conditions. But on the other side was the scaffold. He con- sented.
 The very next day he sent for a mo- ble old priest and announced that he had decided to give his whole great wealth to charity.
 Actually writhing. feeling as if the words would truly choks him. as if they were ropes fastened around his throat and being drawn taut, he declar- cd first that he would settle two thous- and francs q year on Morel, who had come from the asylum cured, this in- come to be revertible to the daughter at the fathers death.
 With a hideous face Ferrand listened to the innocent priests praise of his generosity. - |
 Having signed this paper, he signed another in which he declared that there had come to him through an anonymous source 10000 crowns, wich the gfver wished to offer to the Countess Fer- mont as restitution.
 Then came the most important gift of all. Polidori, posing as the sympa- thetic friend, had to use all his force to sustain the wretched lawyer while he read the deed and signed 1t.
 1t gave all the remainder of his for tune, with the strict condition that the donors name be left unknown, to the establishment of bank for working