The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-13

fly while there is yet time" Then
sue vanished, and P3scalet, taking the
great keys, climbed from the
up 70 the outer world and was again
II me streets Of Avignon, with the
stars shining overhead and the fl,,sh
OF the early dawn beginning TO INT
the eastern skies.
After one great, refreshing draught
OF fresh air, he hurried to the house
OF Vauclalr. Lazuli received the hoy
as one returned from the dead f1f
listened with little interest to his rap
tuiss regardlng the young ansel who
nau liberated him from his dungeon.
me good omar instead, hurried
nm on after the Marseillais battalion.
II Was only a days march in advance,
and by rapid work he might Join il.
and Pascaiet was to tax this message
TO Faucialr-that Lazuli and the little
boy, Clairette. would join him in Paris,
gong by the diligence. SO Pascalet
nnally came up with the battalion of
the Reds of the Mid and with them
~Journeyed through q country which
was torn By The ciVi. war which. begun
IN the capital, had spread its discard
Of blood and strife into the most re-
mote villages Of France. But, when
ever the way seemed long and when
ever the ~pOpulace seemed hostile, the
big fellow With the banner OF The
Rights OF men would give a flourish
- -, cti IN NtuIu btcdk
out into the song VIII 'ch made al ways
smooth for the people and all ways Of
death and destruction for their oD-
pressors, Hill and dale Of the pleas
ant land Of France rang to the sound
of Rouget de Iisle's new song:
"Allons. enfants, de Ia patric.
LIE jour de gloire est arrive"
At a little town, before they saw the
lights and heard the hum Of the big
city, The dill gence from Avignon
caught%up with the battalion. and Pas
cllet, for one hour, was in the COM
pany of the kind of people who had
aiken him under their protection. AS
they all We're eating in the inn, Lazuli
remarked that she had fears for the
safety Of the girl. an 'Aristo," she
feared, who was d fellow passenger
with her in the diligence. This girl
was a s1eet-iaced. delicate being, who
was being taken up 70 Paris by one
OF he most fcrociOus and d~isreputa-
BILE women of @AVignon, La Jacaresse,
whose business was that of the
slaughter of pigs. From the descrip-
ton OF the girl given By Lazull, Pas
calet knew that the captive Of La
Jacaresse was -Adeline. The boy e
ed his heart tic his good friends and
Lazuli promised that h would rescue
the girl. The poor lamb" said this
woman of the people: "the poor lamb
will not be sacrificed If ] can help
it-and ! think l can Lazuli was
a reSolute woman and she did save
the life Of Adeline. Even the con
ductor Of the diligence was Won over
to the side OF a suspected "Aristo' by
the gentleness of Adeline, and, by
his conilivince, as soon as the car
riage stopped at a Dosting-house in
the capital, he took La Jacaresse out
for a drink, while LaZuli ran from
the coach with her boy and Adeline
Oh, +naI- than m fha hGjISa HI =
carpenter, a man with whom Nauclaif
had served his apprenticeship, one
Pianchot, who was just then doing a
tiourishing business IS a maker 81
guillotines. Wise in her generation
and feeling that she should, in a meas
| ure, dissemb1e, even to the carpenter,
Lazuli introduced Adeline as her
daughter. There were few beds in
the house of the carpenter and SO
he took up a box which he had made
to fill his order for guillotines-a box
with two posts standing up from it
posts with O in them, and as
signed his as a bed for Adellne.
| Lazuli did not dare tell the carpenter
that the little girl she represented Us
her own child was in reality an arts
tocrat. Planchot would rather
| died, or caused somebody else to die.
| than have one Of the hated ''Aristos'
in his house. SO when Vaucialr ami
the Marseillias battalion arrived II
husband and wife embraced in the
| home Of the revolutionary carpenter.
| Lazuli warned her husband against
betraying the identity of Adeline. AS
for Pascalet, he had grown 50 old and
| wise on his trip with the Reds OF the
| lid that he saw the situation at once
and-held his tongue. The carpenter,
however. when he saw how Adeline
| and Pascalet embraced and kissed
| each other, declared that the daughter
of his friend Vauclair n this adopt
| ed son of his were sure to marry IN
| the future. and thought that they
would suit each other PERFECTLY.
AS soon as the Marseillais battalion
arrived in Paris. they were for at once
storming the Kings castle and dictat-
ing terms to him. But the Paris
reyolutionists were having q san spell
after their frenzy, and SanteTre, the
braxuar who was playing fast and loose