The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-15
By F. 4. Mitchell

the boy.
why should you do that? Well,
upon my word! What do you mean
by asking such a question:"
Il mean that | see no more reason
why | should carry your load than that
you should carry mine"
The man held whip in his hand to
be used on the dogs and. regarding the
youngster as no better than a dog. I'M
dertook to enforce obedience, cutting
him across the face with the lash. But
the spirit of rebellion against such tyr
amy had found Judgment in the lat
ter's breast. and with his fist he sent
his would be master sprawling on the
ground. The huntsman. rising. DELHI
erately took aim at the boy and shot
him.
Only one other Of the hunting party
remained behind Seeing the boy fall
he went to him and. stanching his
wound, reproached the other.
'Why did you do that Beaufort?' he
said
Because the young dog was first i'm
pudent TO me and then struck me
Come let US go on and join the party"
But the other did not go on. He re-
NAMED with the boy. who was badly
wounded. and when be was satisfied
that it was the only thing to do car
zied him to his fathers cottage and
SET ror doctor The latter. after ex-
aiming the wound. said the boy
would probably die. but this be could
not tell
Here is money for your services
said the rescuer. ATTEND him till he
is well or succumbs and report to me-
Count harvard. at the Hotel de Vile.
in Paris. When this is exhausted
will send you more"
The count left. followed by the bless
ngs of the boys parents, while the boy
himself looked after him as he passed
out with an expression of gratitude t,
ing. He fingered between life and
death for awhile, then began to mend
slowly. Again and again his doctor
reported his condition to Count Mari
ward in the city. and every time the
messenger returned with gift of mon
ey. At last the boy recovered ant
went to Paris to thank his benefactol
He found him an officer under the gov
eminent and an influential man.
Ten years more passed before the
great shock came which was destined
to rid France of her oppressors. When
the storm broke it swept over the in.
nocent and the guilty. Even women
and children were not exempt The
queen as we'll as the king was forced
to mount the guillotine. while the dau-
phin-the heir to the thronea boy of
seven. was secretly disposed of in pris-
on. Not only noblemen. but their wives
and their grown children. went down
before the tempest of wrath excited in
a people by years of extortion and op-
preston.
Among the younger leaders of the
revolution. now grown to manhood.
was Victor Guerard. the victim of the
Marquis of Beauforts tyranny He
entered upon the work of regenerating
France with the memory of his treat
ment burning within him. Each year
since he had been shot had added to
the wound in his mind, though that in
bis body had long ago healed And
when the people of his neighborhood
congregated in groups to talk over the
movement that was going on in the
capital be was among them, showing
them the scar left by the bullet Of the
aristocrat and melting them to join in
throwing off the yoke of the hated aris-
iocrats.
When at last the first gust Of the
gtorm of revolution appeared in the
courtyard of the palace of Versailles
young Guerard was there with
scythe in his hands. fire in his eye de-
noting that he was ready to cut down
together the weeds. the grass and the
flowers. When the mob broke into the
room of Queen Marie Aintoinette he
was there When the king was taken
by the mob to Paris, Guerard walked
with others by his carriage. still car
rying his scythe When the king
showed himself on the balcony of the
palace of the TuiIeries. decked with
the eockade of the revolution. the man
who had received the cut of a mobiles
whip across his cheek and had re-
ceived his bullet in his body was one
Of the yelling crowd that derisively
greeted the sovereign.
Then came what has passed into his
torsx tom of
the so called intellectually the best
class. who had guided the revolution
with view to esta blishing a reform
in the government. lost the control,
! and the flame they had helped to kin
die burned them. The Girondists, rep
element. persisted on the guillotine,
singing the song of liberty they would
have given France instead of the Ma
poleonic despotism that followed the
revolution After the Girondists-or
rather. at the time they were sacri-
vised courtrooms for the purpose OF
graduating the nobility that they
might never again crush the people
under their feet
Victor Guerard was one of these
judges. He wished not then so much tt
regenerate France as for revenge. he
had had already enough to satisfy an
ordinary person, but not for one who
had felt the lash of an aristocrat
across his cheek and the same tyrant's
bullet crashing through his vitals.
One name. one face, he remembered
the name and face Of the man who
! had shot him. He had hoped to meet
this man, but thus far had not done
so and feared that he had escaped
with other mobiles to Holland. He had
in the beginning of the reign of blood
handed in to the committee Of safety
the name of the Marquis Of Beaufort
as an enemy to France, which meant
that be belonged to that class which
must be eradicated and should be
hunted down If possible for treatment
| by the guilIotine
One day while Judge Guerard wal