The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-07

! kfOW GU ny Lie OtucE European SOV'
ereigns and abdicated"
81 never heard of him. What long
time have slept Go on"
Then the Bourbons were placed
again on the throne Of France. but the
people would not remain tranquil un.
der their rule and drove them out
After that Napoleon's nephew was
elected president and afterward made
himself emperor He was conquered
by the Prussians and a republic was
proclaimed This is the government
we live under now"
Heavens, how old must be!'
IT have told you all of what has hap
pened since you went to sleep that
can tell you now. | must take action
with regard to your future Since you
are comfortable here and don't dare
for the present to permit you to make
the slightest effort I will leave you,
| though only long enough to make Ger.
tain provisions You will need won
an to attend you. and that is the first
matter for me to arrange. Do you fear
TO remain. say. half an hour. aloneT"
mo"
He bent over her and kissed her
There was a cold clamminess to her
lips he did not like He was much
troubled. This bringing a woman back
from past century appalled, him. The
brief synopsis of what had passed
since she had become unconscious was
in itself narrowing. What would he
say when she began to ask where
were those who had been near and
dear to her?
At the door he turned for another
look. He started IT seemed to him
that since her resuscitation Marie had
grown ten years older.
Locking his charge In the laboratory
he went out. thinking as he went what
course to pursue He felt that but one
plan was practicable-he must go to
his mother and give her his confidence
Calling fiacre. he directed the driver
to take him home
Arriving. be called for his mother
to follow him and. leading her to
bis own room, showed her the man
date of the first Chantan to resus
citate the body of Mile. de Maurier
Nine. Chantan read the paper with
out displaying any especial interest.
but when her son began to tell his
story her face assumed very differ
ent expression. When he recounted his
taking the body from Pere Lachaise
her features grew anxious. But when
. he told her that he had actually
brought back to life body that had
been in the tomb a hundred years she
had no doubt whatever that her son
was insane
Nine. Chantan was a remarkably self
contained woman. AS soon as her son
began to tell her that he wished her to
help him take care of the resuscitated
girl she arose. stepped to the door,
passed out. closed it and turned the
key. Paul Chantan was a prisoner.
The idea that Marie would be left
alone locked in his laboratory with but
such provisions as he had provided for
immediate use threw him into terri
BILE agony. He hammered on the door,
called, screamed and acted like veri-
table mailman. In an hour two men
came, overpowered him and, taking
him down to a carriage. drove him to
lunatic asylum.
How long Chantan remained in the
asylum he did not know, for he was
attacked with brain fever and passed
into delirium. When he came to him
self he could see By the leaves on the
trees without his window and by the
heat that the season had changed. Be
fore the attendants knew Of hsg al
tered condition be had had time to lay
his plans. He wrote to bis mother
that he was aware be had suffered
from insanity. but had recovered.
Nine. Chantan came at once to see
him. and within few days he was
permitted to order a fiacre and drive
away
He drove at once to his laboratory.
After be had inserted the key in the
lock 1t was some time before he could
nerve himself to turn it. When he en-
tered, there on the lounge was a body,
but It was not the body Of a young
girl. He saw instead small dried up
figure the hue of papier mache. The
eyes were entirely sunken away. and
the teeth had disappeared. It was the
corpse Of woman more than a hun
dred years old