Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-07-01
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The Kings
Surgeon
Story Of an Escape From the Gull.
lottne During the French
Revolution.
By MOLLlE K. WETnEREIL.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
MOLLiE K. WETHERELL,

Association.
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One evening-it was the latter part
Of the eighteenth century-a carriage
stopped at the door of an inn midway
between Versailles and Paris. A gen.
tleman whose dress and manner de.
noted that he was Of some Importance
alighted, entered the inn, where the
landlord stood obsequiously rubbing
his hands. and ordered a supper.
While 1t was being prepared the land
lord was hopping about. now running
into the kitchen to hurry up the cook
and now returning to the gentleman to
assure him that he would not have
long to wait.
Meanwhile the gentleman went out
on to the piazza for the purpose of
stretching his legs during his halt.
He found there something that inter-
ested him-a boy about sixteen years
old, pale and emaciated. sitting in an
invalid chair. The gentleman ap.
preached him and began to question
him.
you do not seem we'll. What is
your trouble?"
MY right leg is drawn up, and
cannot straighten 1t. My back, too, is
getting crooked"
How long since this trouble came
upon you?"
Since year ago when the young
Marquis of Treville kicked me-"
The gentleman's brow lowered. At
that moment supper was announced.
and he went into the dining room.
who is the boy outside with hip
disease and spine curvature?" he ask
ed of the landlord. who waited on him.
HE is my son. seigneur."
HE has Il fine head and an intel
lectual face. 1t is pity that he should
suffer thus. He would If relieved
make good man."
ut was that little villain Treville."
IF you will send him to me at Paris
will see If cannot straighten his
leg and prevent the further curvature
of his spine. am the kings surgeon"
IF you will do that. NJ. lie Docteur,
we will all bless you. but fear have
not SO much money as you will ex-
pect."
''There will be no money to pay. l
am going direct to Paris. and IL you
like will take your boy With me in
my carriage. He will travel more COM
fortably end be less liable to injury
than IL he is carried in one Of your
country wagons"
When the doctor was driving away,
beside him. made comfortable with
pillows and rugs. sat Jean Demaurier.
That night he was placed in hos.
pital. and the next morning DR.. Du
Faur began course of treatment.
During the next dozen or fifteen
years the American colonists had
thrown OF the kingly yoke and become
an independent people with govern.
ment Of their own. The French, who
for centuries had been. bled by their
kings and their mobiles. ground down
to the very earth. encouraged by the
Americans example. had begun to turn
upon their oppressors. One day a mot
marched by the inn where DR.. Du
Faur had stopped for supper. going tc
Versailles to bring the king to Paris
Jean Demaurier had forgiven thu
young noble who had kicked him. bu
he had not forgotten that so great wa.
the power Of the aristocrats that b
had not dared resent his treatment
He had thrown himself into the caus'
of the revolution. and when the PEG
pie marched by his farm he joine.
them. Then when they came bacl
with the king in his carriage Jeal
continued on with them to Paris
where he became one of the mino
leaders.
Then began that reign Of terror base
on q determination on the part of
people who had suffered oppression
for centuries to wipe their oppressor
from the face of the earth. In tn
Place de la Revolution they sat up
machine for carrying out their worl
The prisons were filled with aristc
Gratis. consisting Of mobiles and thei
j. sympathiZers. and whenever the door
opened out poured crowd who wer
] to he eliminated by the guillotine fro,
d the problem of French politics.
Dr. Du Faur was not noble. but hi
wife was or had, been. for he was
widower. and his daughter had ma
ried the young Count Destelles ut til
breaking out of the revolution. I'll
doctor. having been the royal surgeon
was deemed of more Importance tina
the other two and was arrested anon
the first. The arrest of his daughtt
and his son-in-law soon followed
| One morning the doctor was hrougl
! up before the citizen judge Of Ii
| reimbursement for what WAS calle
| a trial. The doctor saw II man Il
| parently not yet thirty sitting behil
pine table who WAS to be his judg
The man looked at the doctor. and
was evident that some commotion WI
going on within the formers brain.
And we'll there might The JUDI
i / a, hose l,1fy il x.,s tn find tha ,,riStNt