The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

would consist in making them impotent to do harm, while still leaving them op- portunity for repentance and reform.
 He came to fearful resolution.
 At signal man entered whom Ru- dolph addressed as doctor. He listened to some whispered words, stepped back as if in fearh then recovered himself and bowed. saying. "As Your Highness wishes. ." .-f.s--
 May God forgive me if I do wrong" !" said Rudolph. You have abused your great strength" continued he. turning to the trembling prisoner. q will paralyEe that strength. You have made the weak tremble. You shall tremble before them. You have plunged your victims into night, I shalr plunge you into night. But I shall leave you your life for repentance. When you go from here. punished, you shall go with enough to support you for the rest of your existence in a retired spot. There may you repent and find forgivness be fore God ere you die"
 Two servants advanced silently at a sign. Swiftly they gagged the School master at the doctors orders. and wheeled him away.
 Half. an. hour afterward he was led from the house, smashing his teeth and sobbing He was blind.
 The Grand Duke at once set h.s agents on the track of Francois Ger main. They traced him to lodgings in No. IT Rue de Temple; but they found that he had been followed there by suspicious characters, no doubt his fathers emissaries. and to escape them had fled again.
 They were unable to pick up the thread, but reported that a young M1Ia II. address and refused to divulge 1t.
 Rudolph decided to take lodgings there as M. Rudolph, fan painter. He had been there only a few days before he found what mankind has always found and is forever finding out anew to its ever perennial surprise-that al- though the world seems so large, the threads of human life cross and inter cross at a bewildering multitude of points.
 He had not occupied his room long before he learned that a poor family the Morels. living in the attic of the house, had been cruelty oppressed by the respected Jaques Ferrand, who had ruined the daughter. as a result of which the girl was in prison, while her father had gone mad.
 He soon gained Mile. Rigollete's ac- quaintance. When the pretty, hard working little thing felt assured that he was actua4ed by good motives she confided to him that he could find Francois Germain at Ferrands house, where he had obtained employment.
 Before he could act on this informa- tion the seamstress received a letter from Germain telling her that the mo- tary had caused his arrest on the trumpedup charge of stealing 13.000 francs.
 At this news Rudolph began to won- der if Jaques Ferrand did not have 6 more or less guilty hand in the affair of La Goualeuse, for whom he was feeling an ever growing interest, as Madame Georges reports told him that she was winning the love of all about her, while the old abbe of the village swore that at heart she was pure and innocent as child, despite the ugly life into which she had been thrown by an evil fate
 Acting on the suspicion gained as the artisan M. Rudolph, the Grand Duke Rudolph surrounded the notary with skillful watchers and spies. They discovered that while Ferrand had won a reputation for great piety and vir- tue by his outward life, his career had been marked by the ruin of those who had trusted him, although in each case the notary had posed as the grief stricken friend of his unfortunate clients and had shown them that their disasters apparently had been caused by others with whom. he had struggled In vain.
 Among other victims they found a starving woman, the Countess Ere mont who had intrusted 100, 900 crowns to him. Shortly afterward her brother was found dead. shot through the head In a letter he confessed that he had drawn the money from Ferrand by virtue of his trusteeshp of the funds and that he had lost 1t in speculation and was Aboutto kill himself in de- spair.
 The mass of proof convinced the Grand Duke that he had come by chance on the track of a man who had done immense wrongs and had left mis- cry and wretchedness in his path through many years. He determined to punish him by striking at that for