Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-04-27
CHAPTER xxxIII.-continusd.

She nodded. 'Yes. Debauchee.
rake. monster. degenerate, product of
that aristocracy which had oppressed
US. ! was obliged to marry him, a
man three times my age! l pleaded.
begged. l was taken away by night.
] was-I was They say was mar
ried to him. For myself. l did not
know where was or what happened.
But after that they said ! was the
wife of this man. sot. monster. the
memory only of manhood. Now. In
deed. the revenge of the aristocracy
was completed"
She went on at last In voice icy
cold. II fed one night, back to Hun.
gary. For a month they could not find
me. ] was still young. saw my
people then as ! had not before. ]
saw also the monarchies of Europe
All. now knew what oppression
meant! Now ] knew what class dis.
tinction and special privileges meant!
I saw what ruin II was spelling for
our country-what II will spell for
your country. II they ever come to
rule here All. then that dream came
to me which had come to my father
that beautiful dream which justified
me in everything ! did. My friend.
can it-can It In part Justify me-
now?
For the first time, then. I resolved
to live! have loved my father ever
since that time. I pledged myself to
continue that work which he had un-
dertaken! pledged myself to better
the condition of humanity II l might.
There was no hope for me. was
condemned and ruined as It was. My
life was gone. Such as had left. that
/ resolved to give to-what shall we
call it?-the idee democratique.
Nov. may God rest my mothers
soul. and mine also. so that some time
I may see her in another world
pray ] may be good enough for that
some time. ! have not been sweet
and sinless as was my mother. Fate
laid heavier burden upon me- But
what renamed with me throughout
was the idea which my father had be-
Qutdtutu mt
"Ah. but also that beauty and sweet
ness and loyalty which came to you
from your mother" insisted.
She shook her head. "Waiti" she
said. Nov they pursued me as
though had been criminal, and
they took me back-horsemen about
me who did as they liked. ! was.
say, sacrifice. News of this came to
that man who was my husband. He
had not the courage of the mobiles left.
But he heard of one nobleman against
whom he had a special grudge. and
him one night. foully and unfairly. he
murdered.
''News of that came to the emperor
My husband was tried, and, the case
being well known to the public, It was
necessary to convict him for the sake
OF example. Then. on the day set for
his beheading. the emperor reprieved
him. The hour for the execution
passed. and. being now free for the
time, he fed the country. He went to
Africa. and there he so disgraced the
state that bore him that of late times
/ hear he has been sent for to come
back to Austria. Even yet the EN-
Iperor may suspend the reprieve and
send him to the block for his ancien,
crime. II he had a thousand heads
he could not atone for the worse
Grimes he has done!
But of him and Of his end I know
.Afhfx1 90 n A
am wed. and yet am not wed, and
never was. do not know what am
nor who am. After all. l cannot tel
you who am or what am, because
myself do not know.
1T was no longer safe for me ir
my own country. They would not lei
me go to my father any more. Al
for him, he went on with his studies
some part of bis mind being brigh
and clear. They did not wish hin
about the court now. All these mat
tiers were to be hushed up. The cour'
lof England began to take cognizanc,
of these things. Our government wal
scandalized. They sent my father. OF
pretext OF scientific errands. into on,
country and another-to Sweden. Il
England to Africa, at last to America
Thus 10 happened that you met him
You mist both have been very nea
to meeting me in Montreal. II wa
fate, as we of Hungary would say.
"As for me, ! was no mere hare
Drained radical. did not go to Ruf
STA. did not Join the revolutionar,
circle OF Paris, did not seek out Prua
STA. That IL folly. My father wa
right II must be the years. It mus