Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-07-09
By MOLLIE K. WETHERELL.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.

tleman whose dress and manner de
noted that he was of some Importance
alighted, entered the inn. where the
landlord stood obscquiouSly rubbing
his hands, and ordered 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 hav"
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
estcd him-a boy about sixteen years
old, pale and emacinted. sitting in an
invalid chair. The gentleman ap-
preached him and began to question
him.
You do not seem well. What is
your trouble?"
MY right leg Is drawn up, and
cannot straighten it. My back. too. Is
getting crooked"
"How long since this trouble came
upon your
Since a 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
cd of the landlord, who waited on him.
"I1e Is my son, seigneur.'
HE has fine head and an intel
lectual face. 1t Is pity that he should
suffer thus. He would If relieved
make n good man
ut was that little villain Trcville"
"lf you will send him to me at Paris
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 en-
pect."
"There will be no money to pay.
am going direct to Paris. and If you
like will take your boy with me in
my carriage. He will travel more COM
fortably and be less liable to injury
than If 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 Demauricr.
That night he was placed In a hos
pital, and the next morning DR.. Du
Faur began Il course Of treatment.
During the next dozen or fifteen
years the American colonists had
thrown off the kingly yoke and become
an Independent people with a 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 mob
marched by the inn where DR.. Du
Faur had stopped for supper. going to
Versailles to bring the king to Paris.
Jean Demaurcr had forgiven the
young noble who had kicked him. but
he had not forgotten that so great was
the power Of the arlstocrats that he
had not dared resent his treatment.
He had thrown himself into the cause
of the revolution. and when the peo-
pie marched by his farm he joined
them. Then when they came back
with the king In his carriage Jean
continued on with them to Paris.
where he became one OF the minor
leaders.
Then began that reign OF terror based
on q determination on the part Of
people who had suffered oppression
for centuries TO wipe their oppressors
from the face of the earth. In the
Place de la Revolution they sat up
machine for carrying out their work.
The prisons were filed with aristo-
Gratis. consisting Of mobiles and their
sympathizers, and whenever the doors
opened out poured crowd who were
to be eliminated by the guillotlne from
the problem of French politics.
DR.. Du Faur was not noble. but his
wife was or had been, for he was a
widower, and his daughter had mar
ried the young Count Destelles at the
breaking out of the revolution. The
doctor. having been the royal surgeon.
was deemed of more Importance than
the other two and was arrested among
the first The arrest of his daughter
and his son-in-law soon followed.
One morning the doctor was brought
up before the citizen judge Of his
reimbursement for what was called
trial. The doctor saw n man ap-
parently not yet thirty sitting behind
a pine table who was to be his judge.
The man looked at the doctor, and 1t
was evident that some commotion was
going on within the formers brain.
And we'll there might. The judge
whose duty 1t was to find the prisoner
guilty and send him to the gulllotine
was none other than Jean Demaurier,
whom the doctor had found cripple
and made q strong man. Demaurier
was q tri6e bent and walked with
slight limp, but he was a very diff
ferent man from what he would have
been had 1t not been for the efforts Of
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