The Press., 1910-11-16
The Kings
 Surgeon SaOry of an Escape From the Guil.
 IOtiV= During the French ,.a..-- Revolution.
By MOLLIE K. WETHERELL. Copyright, 1910, by American Press
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 One evening-it was the latter par 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 vas of some importancS alighted, entered the inn, where thG 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 cooh and now returning to the gentleman to assure him that he would not have long to walt.
 Meanwhile the gentleman went out on to the piazza for the purpose o1 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 well. What Ig your trouble?'' ~a.
 My right leg is drawn up, and I cannot straighten 1t. My back, too, is getting crooked"
 How long since this trouble came upon your
 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 curvatureP' he ask cd of the landlord, who waited on him.
 "He is my son. seigneur."
 He has a fine head and an intel loctual face. It is a pity that he should suffer thus. He would If relieved make a good man."
 "It 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. le Docteur, we will all bless you, but fear I have not so much money as you will ex- pect."
 There will be no money to pay. I 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 !Hable to injury than if he Is carried in one of your country wagons"
 When the doctor was driving away, beside him, made conlfortable with pillows and rugs, sat Jean Demaurfer. That night he was placed in a hos pital, and the next morning Dr. Du Faur began a 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 a govern ment of their own. The French, who for centuries had been bled by their kings and their nobles, ground down to the very earth. encouraged by the Americans example. had begun to turn upon their oppressors. One day a mob marched by the inn where Dr. Du Faur had stopped for supper. going to Versailles to bring the king to Paris. Jean Demaurier had forgiven the yOung noble who had kicked him, but hs had not forgotten that so great was the power of the aristocrats 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 a determination on the part of a people who had suffered oppression for centuries to wipe their oppressors from the face of the earth. Tn the Place de Ia Revolution they sat up a machine for carrying out their work. The prisons were filled with aristO- cFats. consisting of nobles and their Bympathizers. and whenever the doors opened out poured crowd who were to be eliminated by the guillotine from the problem of French politics.
 pr. 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 arrOndissement for what was called Q trial The doctor saw a man ap- ParenfIy not yet thirty sitting behind a pine table who was to be his judge. TAs man looked at the doctor, and it was evident that some commotion was going on within the formers brain.
 Ana well there might The judge