The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-03-28

Ga7evieye respectfully extended her
hand Offering the towers. rs II Ioi-
hidden. SIR" asked the queen ioohlnS
At Maurice. No. no" replied the
vonng man. L thank YOU" replied
the queen. butt viii take only one
blossom 10 cheer me in my captivity.
She extended her hand n pickeo one
! single carnatfon from the ouque
Then she passed on With q gracious
smile of thanks. II
when laurie and his guests had
left the Temple, q keeper. walking on
the platform which the royal family
had vacated. saw lying and plcked up
a rinse carnation. Examining Il
closel%. he saw that III the caiyN Wds
sacreted a piece of thin paper evil
IDENTITY 4 letter sent in secret to the
caDtiyeS. He called the keeper OF the
jail, and when he. with some OF ms
officers. had arrived. they proceeded 10
unroll the piece OF compromising pa
per. But as they laid it upon the par
apet TO try and read il q gust OF Nlnd
blew it to the street below. 1t was
lost. The conspiracy was certain, put
the form of it unknown.
Tison went to the Queen and de-
manded of her the ~carnatlon she had
picked from the bouquet of Genevleve-
Marie AntOinette readily ~urrendere
it to him-but the center of the flower
was missing. Threats We're unayailing
TO force the Queen to tell her jailers
anything concerning the carnatlon; but
1t was evident that each Hover tthe
Queen had selected one at random, it
will be remembered) of the bouquet of
) Genevieve had concealed in it a letter
r to the royal captive. Maurice natu-
rally fell under suspicion. But he
! proved that he had bought the carna-
: tons quite by chance from a flower
: girl whom he had never, as Tar as he
knew, seen before. The secret agents
of tho 2c0nvonfinn ware got tn WORK
! upon the case. It was found out that
the supposed flower girl was Sophie
TiSon: that she was in collision with
the mysterious Chevalier de Mason
Rouge 10 iEerate the Queen. She
was arrested. condemned and exc
cuted. Her mother went mad at the
f fate Of her child.
But Marie Antionette had received
the message in the carnations sent by
the Chevalier. and hope had again
sprung to life in her sad heart-tha1
4 hope which was destined to be sc
many times awakened and 50 many
= times to prove elusive. One day she
= asked permission to walk in the gar
den Of the Temple. 1t was readily
"a granted her. The note which hae
been conveyed to her in the carnatior
had told her the day, the hour, whe1
the tunnel under the Rue de Corderi,
would be completed, and she, feignint
= sudden illness While walking in tn.
"A garden. was to seek shelter in tn
cabaret and see her ~rescuers arts
through the trap door leading to Nine
Plumeau's wine vaults.
Everything went as arranged unit
the crucial was impending
10 Then the Queens little dog-Jet-
- who loved his mistress, betrayed he
life. AS the royal party came to til
cabaret the little dog ran in. and then
= shifting at the trap door, began t
"a bark furiously. His barking attractet
the attention of the guards on duty
- always suspicious-and, trying tn
raise tho trap door. they found it Sc
- cured below. They hacked it open wit
~ axes, and descending found the tun
~ mel. Proceeding along this, they foun
&c. that iron g1atings, form ed in the man
nc ner of po%rtcullises, had been let dow
60 to hinder pursuit. By the time the
III had forced their way to the house /
ca the Rue de Corderie the house VIZ
ne vacant the conspirators had escaped
"a. Meantime the Queen, her daughte
ne and Nine. Elizabeth had been hurrie
ie- back to the keep and from the tempt
liu We're soon removed to the Concierg
u The tolls now gathered around tn
We c~onspirators. The agents Of the cor
ne vention aScertained who had hired tf
ne house in the Rue de Corderie. and
on night a detachment Of soldiers W.
I'D sent to surround the house Of Dixme
ms the pretended tanner. As q test
loyalty the command of a part
lty these soldiers was given to Lorin VIII
ted as has been said. had become vi,
son Maurice a SUSPECT Maurice al,
a was ordered to M the Il
IA tachment. a stern Republican of1ci
ice was with the soldiers TO see tn.
there was no faltering-the conspir,
tors We're to be arrested, their hous
the given to the flames. He who hesitat,
lis in the work was himself condemn,
see to the guillotine. Arriving in Il
neighbzorhood of the house Maurt
leiT was given the countersign and senf
watch the garden at the back.
climbed over the wall and saW a lg
,aid shining from the pavilion usually q
cupied by Genevieve.