Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-08-09

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 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 curvatureT he ask
ed of the landlord, who waited on him.
He Is my son. seigneur."
He has q fine head and an intel
lectual face. 1t is pity that he should
suffer thus. He would If relieved
make a good man."
ut was that little villain Treville.'
IF you will send him to me at Paris
will see II 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 he no money to pay. l
am going direct to Paris. and If you
like ! will take your boy with me In
nv 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 Demurrer.
That night he was placed In a 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 off 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 mob
marched by the inn where DR.. Du
Faur had stopped for supper. going to
Versailles to bring the king to Paris.
Jean Demaurer had forgiven the
young noble who had kicked him. but
he 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 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 Ia Revolution they sat up
machine for carrying out their work.
The prisons were filed with aristo.
Gratis, consisting Of mobiles aud their
sympathizers, and whenever the doors
opened out poured crowd who were
to be eliminated by the guillotine 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
ACCOMPLISHMENT for what was called
a trial. The doctor saw a man APP
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 well there might. The Judge
whose duty II was to find the prisoner
guilty and send him to the gulllotine
was none other than Jean Demaurier.
whom the doctor had found a cripple
and made a strong man. Demaurier
was trife bent and walked with a
slight limp. but he was a very dlf-
ferent man from what he would have
been had It not been for the efforts OF
the surgeon. The Judge gave one look
1t the man who had been sent TO MIN
that he might sign his death warrant
then. lowering his eyes to sheet of
paper before him. began to question
him and take down bis answers. For
his own life he dare not favor his ben
efactor.
"Your namef' be asked.
"Alphonse Du Faur."
"OccupationT
Surgeon"
II believe 1t is you who have kept
the tyrant Louis Capet and his family
from the grave where they should
have laid long ago."
II was the kings physician"
Those standing about scOwled and
expected that the next words would
be take him to the guillotine!'
"And do you think" continued the
Judge, that you who have kept alive
this oppressor Of the people should die
the same death as other arlstocrats7"
The doctor did not answer the ques-
ton.
take him to the temporary prison
In the Rue veau Grand. I wish to
consult the committee to learn If It Is
their pleasure that this man. who has
been closer than any other In the con-
fidence Of the tyrant shall die an Or
binary death. He should be burned"
These words were spoken with all
the bitterness the citizen Judge could
throw into them. Not one present
suspected that his intention was to
save DR.. Du Faur from the guillotine