The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-09-18

me exactly confirms what logical rea-
sonlng has made me suspect, and now
TO De brief again, I do not know nor
40 l want to know, what act of Mon
sieur de Sartines has placed him in
your graces, but this I must know;
am l invited to your house tonight in
my official capacity or simply as Mon
sieur de M~aupeou?'
sieur."
ITO meet"
a criminal who has %conspired
against the welfare of the state"
this is a serious matter,
tonight. l shall come armed with terri
BILE powers"
Come armed as you please, Mon
sieur, only I warn you of this: If you
display your power before the right
moment arrives you will spoil all"
Madame replied he, rising to go.
L ieave the matter in your hands, as
same as mine-justice. I shall be with
you tonight"
He took his leave, entered his car
rage, and gave his coachman the or
der, Versailles"
his hatred Of De Sartines had been
a growth Of years, one Of those hatreds
complex as a mechanism and cold as
ice, despite the fire that keeps it alive.
he knew much against De sartines,
put he had never been able to make use
or his knowledge. Instinct told him
now that this was probably the
instrument he had been long searching
for. That she had the lieutenant gen
eral OF police in her grip was self-evi-
dent.
"A criminal who has conspired
against the welfare of the state" He
Kept mumbling the words over as
hough they pleased him. The Grim
maj could be none other than De Sar-
tines. What crime had he committed
out OF the many possible crimes thai
ne might commit? De Maupeou could
not tell, nor did he care SO long as the
crime was big enough.
An our and a half after leaving
Paris, tina is to say, at about 20 min
utes past 4, De Maupeou's carriage en-
tered the courtyard of Versailles. We
nave said that at this period the din
ner hour of the nobility was 4 o'clock:
that Of the king S. From his it fol-
lowed that from 4 to 5 o'clock there was
an emptying Of the ante-rooms and
corridors adjoining the kings apart
ments. One might AVE fancied that
the Dime hour would have emptied
them entirely, but this was not so. A
number of courtiers always clung on in
the hope of a glance or word from the
King as ne passed to the dining room
or the private apartments of Madame
du Barry.
Nothing is more extraordinary than
this obsession of the courtiers Of the
kings of France which caused them to
cling to the presence of the monarch as
bees to their queen. Marked in the
time Of Louis XIII, it became acute in.
the reign Of the grand monarch, and
still more SO in the time Of Louis XIV.
From the Duchesse de Gramont to the
Marchioness de Mirepoix, from Mon
sieur de Choiseul to the Prince de Sou
bise, there was not one of these people
who did not feel half stifled when con-
demned to breathe air other than the
air Of the court.
So, though it was past the linn
hour, Monsieur de Maupeou as he
passed up the stairway Of the ambassa-
doris encountered several Of his ac-
qua1ntances. and more in the Hall of
Mirrors.
But 1t was not to the king that Mon
de Maupeou had come to pay his
court, and disregarding the people
whom he met and who made attempts
to hold him in talk, he turned his steps
toward h a wing Of the chateau once
occupied by the Princess Adelaide and
now occupied by Madame du Barry
when that lady was not in residence
at LucienneS.
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