The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-16

quiet, suave, deadly pale. finely
nodded man, with delicately fashioned
hands and feet, and two eyes SO color
| less that in some lights they appeared
| to be almost sightless.
In month from that time he was
the power that moved that community
even IN its most Insignificant machin.
! cry. With marvellous skill he con
structed out of that simple republic
i Of protestants an absolute despotism
And he was the despot
An intimation from the Tuileries in
/ terrupted a meeting of the council at
/ the house in Paradise; an arrest was
| threatened-that of Professor Reclus
and the indignant young Countess
/ was requested to retire to her chateau
Of La Trappe. She obeyed. but invited
! her guests to accompany her Among
those who accepted was Buckhurst.
/ About this time the government be
| gan to take a serious interest in John
! Buckhurst, On the secret STAFF of the
/ Imperial Military Police were always
certain foreigners-among others, my.
self and young man named James
I Speed; and Colonel Jarras had already
| decided to employ us in watching Buck
| hurst. when war came on France like a
bolt from the blue, giving the men
of the Secret Service all they could at.
tend to
There is no reason why it should not
| De generally known that the crown
| jewels of France were menaced from
the very first by conspiracy so alarm.
ing and apparently so irresistible that
the Emperor himself believed, even in
the beginning of the fatal campaign
that it might be necessary to send the
crown jewels of France to the Bank OF
England for safety
On the 18th of July. the day that
war was declared, certain of the crown
jewels, kept temporarily at the palace
Of the Tuileries, were sent under heavy
guards to the Bank OF France. Every
precaution was taken: yet the great
diamond cructiX OF Louis XII was
missing when the guard under Captain
the governor of the Bank of France.
Instantly absolute secrecy was or
dered, so the news OF the robbery never
became public property, but from one
end OF France to the other the gend
| armerie, the police. local. municipal
and secret, were stirred up 10 activity
Within forty-cight hours. an indi.
yidual answering Buckhursts descrip-
| ton had sold single enormous dia-
/ mond for two hundred and fifty thou
sand francs to dealer in Strasbourg,
Jew named Fishel Cohen. An hour
after he had recorded the transaction
at the Strasbourg Diamond Exchange
he and the diamond were on their way
to Paris, in charge of detective A
few hours later the stone was Identified
at the Tuileries as having been taken
| from the famous CTuciiiX Of Louis XI
From Fishel Cohens agonized de-
scription OF the man who had sold him
the diamond, Colonel Jarras believed
ne recognized John Buckhurst But
how on earth Buckhurst had obtained
managed to spirit away the cross from
the very center of the Tuilerics could
only be explained through the theory
Of accomplices among the trusted init
mates of the imperial encourage. And
if there existed SUCH a conspiracy. who
was involved?
My chase after Buchhurst began as
soon as Colonel Jarras could summon
me; and as Buckhurst had last been
heard of in Strasbourg. | went after
him on a train loaded with red.Iegged,
uproarious soldiers.
| tracked Buckhurst to Morsbronn,
where | lost all traces of him: and now
here was with my orders concerning
the unfortunate people at La Trappe.
staring out at the dismal weather and
wondering where my wild goose chase
would end
Half an hour later rode out OF
Morsbroun. clad in the uniform of the
Third Hussars, a disguise supposed to
convey the idea to those at La Trapps
that the army and not the police were
responsible for their expulsion.
moist, fern-bordered wood road
attracted me; ! reasoned that it must
lead, by a short cut, across the hills
to the military highway which passed
between Trois-Feuilles and La Trappe
So | took it, and presently came into
four cross roads unknown to me
This grassy carrefour was occupied
by flock OF turkeys, busily engaged
in catching grasshoppers; their keeper.
a prettily shaped peasant girl, looked
up at me as drew bride, then quietly
resumed the book she had been read.
ing
My child said |, will you kindly
direct me. with appropriate gestures,