The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

seillais battalion. It was only a day >
 march in advance and by rarid work he
 might join it. And Pascalet was to take
 this message to Vauclair-that Lazull
 and the little boy, Clairettc, would join 1 him in Paris, going by the diligence. So
 Iascalet finally came up with the bat talion of the Reds of the Midi and with | them journeyed through a country which
 was torn by the civil war which, begun
 in the capital, had spread it's discord Of
 blood and strife into the most remote villages of France. But whenever the
 way seemed long and whenever the pop
 ulace seemed hostile, the big fellow with
 the banner of "The Rights of Man"
 woul5 give a flourish to 1t and tho bat
 talion would break out iuto the song
 which made all ways smooth for the people and all ways of death and de- struction for their appressors. Hill and dale of the pleasant land of France rang 10 the sound of Rouget do Lisle's new song;
 Allonsl enfants, de Ia patrle.
 Le jour dc gloire est arrive. At little town. before they saw the lights and heard the hum of the big city. the diligence from Avignon caught up l with the battalion, and Pascalet, for one
 hour, was in the company of the kind Of people who had taken him under their protection. As they all were eating in
 the inn, Lazul remarked that he had Co., f1,A fa+r pf tz rv "Aristo, she feared who was a fellow passenger with her in the diligence. This
 girl was a sweet-faced, delicate being, who was being taken up to Paris by one of the most ferooious and disreputable women of Avignon, La Jacaresse whose business was that of the slaughter of pigs. From the description of the girl given by Lazull, Pascalet knew that the captive of La Jacaresse was AdeliIe. The
 boy opened his heart to his good friends
 and Lazul promised that ahe would
 rescue the girl. "The poor lamb." said this woman of the people; '3he poor lamb will not be sacrificed If can help it-and I think can" Lazull was res-
 olute woman. and she did save the life
 
 diligence was won over to the side of a suspected "Aristo" by the gentleness of Adeline, and, by his connivance, as soon as the carriage stopped st posting house in the capital, he took La Jacar- csse out for drink, while Lazull ran from the coach with her boy and Adeline.
 She took them to the house of a car with mh oJa3,, !, served his apprenticeship, one Planchor. who was just then doing f1ourishing business as a maker of guillot.nes. Wise in her generation and feeling that she should. in a measure dissemhle, even to the carpenter, Lazull introduced Adeline as her daughter. There wero few beds in ,he house of the carpenter and so he took up box which he had made to fill his order for guillotines-a box with two posts standing up from it--posts with grooves in them, and assigned this as a bed for Adeline. Lazull did not dare tell the carpenter that the little girl she rep resented as her own child was in reality an aristocrat. Planchot would rather hava died, or caused somebody else to die, than have one of the ha,ed 'Aristo'' in his house. So when vauclair and the Marseillais battalion arrived and husband and wife embraced in the home of the revolutionary carpenter, Lazur warned her husband against betraying the iden- tity of Adeline. As for Pascalet. he had grown so old and wise on his trip with the Reds of the Midi that he saw the sit- uation at once and-held his tongue. Tho carpenter. however, when he saw how