The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-14

which he had committed all his crimes --his wealth.
 Ignorant of the powerful hand that was preparing to grip him, Jacques Ferrand was gloating just then over his realized ambitions. At last he had amassed million francs and he was preparing to leave Paris and enjoy his fortune in the vices and dissipations that he longed for all the more fiercely' for having been forced to enjoy them sparely and in secret so many years.
 At this iuncture Lady Sarah arrived on the scene again.
 She had married Scotch nobIeman after the annulment of the mock mar riage to the heir of Gerolstein. Her husband had died. and as soon as she was a widow the old eager dream of becoming the wife of reigning mon- arch came to her.
 She resolved on a desperate expedi- ent to induce Rudolph to marry her.
 As a first step in her plot she called secret conversation, from which she retired baffied. But after she had gone he was white and trembling. Her next step was against La Goua- louse. Her spies had told her of the beautiful girl whom Rudolph had taken to his model farm. They had no trou- ble in finding out her past, and Sarah If1neQlaUeIy dSSuiubu LndI tuS NTEduQ Duke was in love with her. She re. solved to remove her from him and thrust her back into the infamy from which she had been rescued.
 By strange chance she picked on Screech owl to do the work. That charming woman went to the farm with an accomplice and the two lay in wait by a road which the girl used every evening on her way to the old abbe.
 The screech-owl Iured her to the place of concealment by loud cries of distress. They seized her with ease and bore her of.
 They made her swear not to commu- nieate with the people at the farm again or to tell any one of the kidnap- ping, the Screech-Owl threatening to burn her face with vitriol If she re- fused.
 This hideous menace succeeded in do- ing what the threat of mere death would have failed in doing. La Goua- Ieuse swore that she would obey them when they told her that all they de- manded in addition would be that she remain away from Rudolph and the farm.
 They turned her loose in Paris; but they did it cunningly, in a district where under the police rules then in force she was promtly arrested as vagabond and put into the prison of Saint Lazare.
 Having watched till she was thus safely disposed of, Screech-Owl pro- ceeded to Jauues Ferrand to tell him that the girl whom Mime. Seraphine had turned over to the vagabond long ago was now in Saint Lazare under the name of La Goualeuse. She declared that If she did not get 10000 francs in three days she would tell La Goualuse all she knew.
 The notary. according to his wont, boldly denied everything and drove the bag from his house.
 The Screech-Owl then hurried to Lady Sarah to report the success of her mission. She knocked according to previous arrangement at a little door in the rear, which Sarah opened herself, permitting her to enter se- cretly.
 'lt Is we'll" said Sarah when the old woman had recounted what had been done. q now want another service, for which I shall pay you we'll You must find for me handsome girl, not more than IT, whose parents dled very early. She must have blue eyes ike the little girl in this picture
 Lady Sarah hastily opened a casket, tossed jewels out heedlessly and brought forth a medallion portrait,
 The screech own paid little atten~ ton to What Sarah said after she saw the jewels. She felt for her dagger and was devoting' her mind to the task of eetting behind the woman. But even in her fierce desire for booty she was checked when she saw the picture
 Why" she cried. before she could stop herself, "that Is the little girl who was given to me to take care or She is the one now known at La Goua-
 sarah leaped to her feet, her face pale with surprise and excitement.
 "What do you mean7 she asked. almost breathlessly.
 Iino slowly nearer to Sarah. that a former convict named Tournemine brought that child to me with a thous- and francs. to get rid of her: she had been turned over to him hv the nouse- keeper of Jaoues Fefranq.