The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

seillais battalion. It was only a day B march in advance and by rarid work he
 might join it. And Pascalet was to take
 this message to Vauclair-that Lazull and the little boy, Clairettc, would join him in Paris, going by the diligence. So
 Pascalet finally came up with the bat talion of the Reds of the Midi and with them journeyed through a country which was torn by the civil war which, begun in the capital, had spread it's discord or blood and strife into the most remote villages of France. But whenever tne way seemed long and whenever the pop ulace seemed hostile, the big fellow with the banner of 'The Rights of Man woul5 give flourish to it and the bat talion would break out iuto the song which made all ways smooth for the people and all ways of death and de- struction for their appressors. Hill and dale of the pleasant land of France rang to the sound of Rouget dc Lisle's new song;
 Allons! enfants, de Ia patrie.
 Le jour de gloire est arrive.
 At a little town, before they saw the lights and heard the hum of the big city. the diligence from Avignon caught up with the battalion, and Pascalet. for one hour was in the company of the kind Of people who had taken him under their protection. As they all were eating in the inn, Lazull remarked that he had fears for the safety of the girl, an "Aristo," she feared, who was fellow passenger with her in the diligence This girl was a sweet-faced, delicate being, who was being taken up to Paris by one of the most ferooious and disreputabie women of Avignon, La Jacaresse whose pigs From the description of the girl given by Lazull, Pascalet knew that the captive of La Jacaresse was Ade1iHe. The boy opened his heart to his good friends anu Lazull promised that ahe would rescue the girl. "The poor lamb," said this woman of the people; '4he poor lamb will not be sacrificed if I can help it--and I think I can" Lazull was a res- olute woman and she did save the life of Adeline. Even the conductor of the diligence was won over to the side of a suspected "Aristo' by the gentleness of Adeline, and, by his connivance, as soon as the carriage stopped at posting house in the capital, he took La Jacar- esse out for drink, while Lazull ran from the coach with her boy and Adeline.
 She took them to the house of a car penter, a man with whom Vauclair had served his apprenticeship, one Planchot. who was just then doing flourishing business as a maker of guiltot.nes. Wise in her generation and feeling that she should, in a measure, dissemhle even to the carpenter, Lazull introduced Adeine as her daughter There wero few beds in she 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 grooves in them, and assigned this as D bed for Adeline. Lazull did not dare tell the carpenter that the little girl she rep resented as her own child was in reality an aristocrat. Planchot would rather have died, or caused somebody else to die, than have one of the ha'ed "Aristo' in his house. So when vauclair and the Marseillais battalion arrived and husband and wife embraced in the home of the revolutionary carpenter, Lazun warned her husband against betraying the iden- tity of Adeline. As for Pascalet, he had grown so old and wise on his trip with the Reds of the Midi that he saw the sit-
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