The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-07

was to accompany them, rs well as An
goliqnc s maid.
At Q o'clock. all the other servants
went TO bed, by their MASTER 8 order.
Al ten minutes TO lO, the duke, who
was completing his preparations, heard
the sound of a motor horn. The porter
opened the gates st the courtyard. The
duke, standing at the window, recog-
nized d 'E,mboise s landaulettc.
''Tcll him ] shall be down present
ly,o he said to Hyacinthe, "and let
mademoisclle know.
In few minutes. as Hyacinthc did
not return, he left his room. But he
was attacked on the landing by two
masked men, who gagged and bound
him before he could utter a cry. And
one of the men said to him. in low
voice:
''Take this as first warning, mon
sieur lie due. IL you persist in leaving
Paris and refusing your consent, it Will
be n more serious .matter.
And the same man said to his com
panlon
keep an eye on him. will see to
the young lady,
BY that time, two other confederatos
had secured the lady's maid, and An
gelique, herself gagged, lay fainting on
couch in her boudoir,
She came to almost immediately, un-
der the stimulus of a bottle Of salts
held to her nostrils, and, when she
her a young man, in evening clothes,
with a smiling and friendly face, who
said:
''I implore your forgiveness, made
moiselle. All these happenings are
trifie sudden and this behavior rather
out of the way. But circumstances of
ten compel us 10 deeds of which our con-
science does not approve. Pray pardon
me-
He took her hand very gently and
slipped broad gold ring on the girl IS
finger, saying:
"There, now we are engaged. Never
forget the man who gave you this ring.
He entreats you not to run away from
him and 10 stay in Paris and
await the proofs OF his devotion. Have
faith in, him"
He said all this in so serious and re-
spectful voice, with so much author
ity and Difference, that she had not the
strength to resist. Their eyes met. He
whispered:
fThe exquisite purity of your eyes!
1t would be heavenly to live with those
eyes upon one, Now close them. ~
He withdrew. His aecomplices fol-
lowed suit. The car drove of, and the
house in the Rue de Varennes remained
still and silent until the moment when
Angelique, regaining complete con-
sciousDess, called out for the servants.
They found the duke, Hyacinthe, the
all tightly bound A few priceless or
naments had disappeared, as well as
the dukes pocket-book and all his
Jewelry; tie pins, pearl studs, watch and
so on.
The police were advised without de-
lay. In the morning it appeared that,
on the evening before, 'Emboise, when
leaving his house in the motor car, was
stabbed by his own chauffeur and
street. Mussy and Caorches had each re.
ceived a telephone message, purporting
to come from the duke, countermanding
their attendance.
Next week, without troubling further
about the police investigation, without
obeying the summons Of the examining
magistrate, without even reading Ar
sene Lupin IS letters to the papers on
f'the Varennes Flight the duke, his
daughter and his valet stealthily took
a slow train for Vannes and arrived one
evening, at the old feudal castle that
towers over the headland Of Sarzeau.
The duke at once organized a defence
with the aid of the Breton peasants,
true medieval vassals to man. On
the fourth day Mussy arrived, op the
fifth, Caorches, and, on the seventh,
'Enboise, whose wound was not as se-
we're as had been feared,
The duke waited two days longer be-
fore communicating to those about him
what, now that his escape had succeeded
in spite of Lupin, he called the second
part of his plan, He did so, in the
presence of the three cousins, by die
tatorial order TO Angelique, expressed
in these peremptory terms:
All this bother is upsetting me ter
riblys l have entered on q struggle
with this man whose daring you have
seen for yourself; and the struggle is
killing me. / want to end it at all costs.
There is only one way of doing so, An
gelique, and that is for you to release
the hand of one of your cousins. Before
month is out. you must be the wife of
Mussy, Caorches or d 'Emboise You
have free choice. Make your de-
cision.'
For four whole days Angelique went
and eEtreated her father, but in vain.
She felt that he would be infexible and
that she must end by submitting to his
wishes. She accepted:
Whichever you please, father. 7
love none of them So I NAV as we'll be
unhappy with one as with the other"
Thereupon fresh discussion ensued,
as the duke wanted to compel her to
make her own choice. She stood firm.
Reluctantly and for financial considera-
tions, he named d 'Emboise
The banns were published without de-
lay.
From that moment, the watch In and
around tho castle was increased two
fold, all the more inasmuch as Lupin g
silence and the sudden cessation of the
campaign which he had been conducting
in the press could not but alarm the
Due de Sarzeau-Vendome Tt was OBJ
vlous that the enemy was getting ready
to strike and would ondeavor to oppose
the marriage by one Of his character
istic moves.
Nevertheless. nothing happened:
nothing two days before the ceremony;
nothing on the day before; nothing on
the morning itself. The marriage took
place in the mayor IS Office, followed bv
tho religious celebration in church; and
the thing was done.
Then and not till then, the duke
breatheG freely. Notwithstanding his
daughter g sadness, Notwithstanding the
embarrassed silence OF his son-in- law.
who found the situation a little trying,
he rubbed his hands with an air of