The wageworker., 1910-05-20
The Kings
Surgeon
Story of an Escape From the Gull
l0tine During the French
Revolution.
By MOLLIE K. WETHERELL,
Copyright, 1910, by American Press
Association.

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 it 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 well. What is
your troubleT'
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 year ago when the young
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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 a fine head and an intel
lectual face. 1t is pity that he should
suffer thus. He would II relieved
make good man."
ut was that little villain Treville."
"If you will send him to me at Paris
will see If 1 cannot straighten his
leg and prevent the further curvature
of his spine. am the kings surgeon" !"
"If you will do that. M. le 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.
am going direct to Paris, and If you
like l 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"
| hA driu
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 a course of treatment.
During the next dozen or fifteen
years the American colonists had
thrown of the kingiy 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 Demaurier 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 bach
Ii, To-
continued on with them to Paris
where he became one Of the minol
leaders.
Then began that reign of terror based
on q determination on the part of 6
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 s
machine for carrying out their work
The prisons were filled with aristo
Gratis. consisting of mobiles and theil
opened out poured crowd who wer'
to be eliminated by the guillotine from
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 mar
lied the young Count Destelles at tn,
breaking out Of the revolution. Tht
doctor. having been the royal surgeon
was deemed Of more Importance thar
the other two and was arrested among
the first. The arrest of his daughtel
and his son-in-law soon followed.
One morning the doctor was brough
up before the citizen judge of hi
reimbursement for what was calle(
trial. The doctor saw a man ap
parently not yet thirty sitting behint
pine table who was to be his Judge
The man looked at the doctor, and /
; was evident that some commotion wa
going on within the formers brain.
And well there might The judg
whose duty 1t was to find the prisone
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