The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26


 in the salyx was secreted a piece of thin paper, evidently letter sent in secret to the captives. He called the keeper of the jail, and when he with some of his of f1cers had arrived they proceeded to un- roll the piece of compromising paper But as they laid it upon the parapet to try and read 1t a gust of wind blew it to the street below. It was lost-the conspiracy was certain, but the form of it un- known.
 Tison went to the Queen and demanded of her the carnation she had picked from the bouquet of Genevieve. Marie Antol- nette readily surrendered it to him-but the center of the flower was missing! Threats were unavaiing to force the Queen to tell her jailers anything con- cerning the carnations; but it was evident that each flower the Queen had selected one at random, it will be remembered) of the bouquet of Genevieve had concealed in it letter to the royal captive. Maurice naturally fell under suspicion. But he quite by chance from flower girl whom he had never, as far as he knew, seen be- fore. The secret agents of the convention were set to work upon tn case. It was found out that the supposed flower girl was Sophie Tison; that she was in col fusion with the mysterious Chevalier de Maison-Rouge to liberate the Queen. She Her mother went mad at the fate of her child.
 But Marie Antoinette had received the message in the carnations sent by the Chevalier, and hope had again sprung to life in her sad heart-that hope which was destined to be so many times awakened and so many times to prove elusive. One garden of the Temple. It was readily granted her. The note which had been conveyed to her in the carnation had told her the day, the hour, when the tunnel under the Rue de Corderie would be com pleted, and she, feigning sudden illness while walking in the garden, was to seek shelter in the cabaret and see her res- cuers arise through the trap door leading to Mme Pumeau's wine vaults.
 Everything went as arranged until the crucial moment was impending. Then the Queens little dog-Jet-who loved his mistress. betrayed her life. As the royal party came to the cabaret the little dog ran in, and then sniffing at the trap door, began to bark furiously. His barking at- tracted attention of the guards on duty always suspcous-and, trying the raise
 
 the trap door, they found 1t secured be- low. They hacked 1t open with axes, and descending found the tunnel Proceeding along this, they found that iron gratings. formed in the manner of portcullises, had been let down to hinder pursuit. By tho time they had forced their way to the was vacant, the conspirators had escaped. Meantime the Queen, her daughter and Mime. Elizabeth had been hurried back t' the keep and from the Temple were soon removed to the Concierge.
 The tolls now gathered around the con- spirators. The agents of the convention |'sscertained who had hired the house in the Rue de Corderie, and at night a de- tachment of soldiers was sent to surround the house of Dixmer. the pretended tan ner. As test of loyalty the command of a part of these soldiers was given to Lorin, who. as has been said, had be- come with Maurice suspect" Maurice also was ordered to accompany the de- tachment. A stern republican official was with the soldiers to see that therc was no faltering-the 'conspirators were to be arr rested, their houses given to the flames He who hesitated in the work was him self condemned to the guiotine. Arriving in the neighborhood of the house Maurice was given the countersign and sent to watch the garden at the back lie climbed over the wall and saw a light shining from the pavilion usually occupied by Genevieve.
 He looked in the window and saw Gen evieve burning papers in the fireplace, while by her side stood fair young man of about 30 years of age, with blue eyes | and of elegant demeanor. With start of surprise Maurice recognized the mvs- terious stranger as none other than M. Morand divested of the disguises in which