Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-03-20
His Method
OF Revenge
BY RUTH GRAHAM

arms than to study and became pro-
heient in the use of the small sword
rather than writing theses. Having
finished the university course. he went
to Paris. His father forwarded him
a letter of introduction to Benjamin
Franklin. who vas then representing
the new American republic at the
court of Versailles. and young Sinclair
was admitted into the society of the
court circle.
Sinclair fell in love with Nine.
Ocrelle de Torcellers, and his passion
was returned. Her brother, the Duke
of Lascelles, to get rid of the Amer
lean, conspired with the Count de
Beauville. a rejected suitor of his SIS
ter, and the two secured his arrest and
Imprisonment.
Having got the young man into the
Bastille, it was not difficult to keep him
there. for they gave instructions to his
jailer not to permit him to communi-
cate with any one. especially the Amer
lean embassy. Sinclair remained there
for several years. gaining his freedom
only when the mob opened the prison
by battering down the gates of the
Bastille.
One would suppose that he had had
enough of the France of those times
and would go home at once. When he
had been shut up the country was
peaceful; now it was a boiling pot.
Having been shut up by royalists, he
might now dread being g~uillotined by
revolutionists. But Sinclair had only
one thought-to find the men who had
imprisoned him and be revenged, for
he had heard while in prison that
Jules de Lascelles had died.
The French royalists were only be-
ginning to get out of France. Sinclair
learned that the Duke of Lascelles had
been arrested on a charge of being an
enemy to the revolution, but the Count
de Beauville was still free. Sinclair
went to the leader of the revolution of
that time, told him how he had been
imprisoned on a charge of melting in-
surrection and asked that the Duke of
Lascelles be liberated that Mr.. Sin
clair might seek revenge by fighting
him. The request was granted.
The next day a prison official an
nounced to the duke that he might go
free. Lascelles. who had been expect
ing death by the guillotine, was over
joyed. But when at the prison gate
he recognized the man he had thrown
into prison several years before he
turned pale.
"Come with me-" said Sinclair, who
led the way into a courtyard neal
by, where two gentlemen were wait
ing, the one to second Lascelles. the
other Sinclair. Lascelles. having es-
capped death by the guillotine to meet
it by an enemy's rapier. fought des-
perately, but he vas no match for
one who had championed his corps
at Heidelberg. Sinclair played with
him for a time MS a cat would with a
mouse, then with a Take that for
your villainy." ran him through.
Sinclair next sought the Count de
Beauville. He found it difficult to
find him, for the count had been pro-
scribed, and the revolutionists were
looking for him as well as the man
whom he had imprisoned. Sinclair got
on his track through information CIV
en- by one who had seen him in court
and supposed him to be a sympathizer
with the royalist cause. Sinclair found
his man. but would neither give him
up to his enemies nor seek revenge or
information that had been impaired
on the supposition that it was given to
a friend. He proposed to De Beau
vile that they journey together to Bel
GUM, passing as two Americans. De
Beauville could not understand why,
since Sinclair had him in his power,
he did not turn him over to the revo-
~lutionists. and why the man he had
injured should help him to get out of
the country was indeed a mystery to
him. However, there was nothing for
him to do but to accept the offer.
Sinclair possessed a passport, though
of a date several years gone by. as an
American citizen. He suggested to De
Beauville that he travel 0stensibly as
his servant. and the two thus passed
beyond the Paris gates. A number Of
times during their journey they were
held up by revolutionists, but every
time Sinclair, by showing his passport
and ordering De Beauville about as
his servant, but, most Of all, by his
cool assurance. secured a passage for
himself and his enemy. At last they
reached the frontier. They passed the
border in the night, and De Beauville
slipped away into the darkness and
But Sinclair knew that the emigres
escaped his enemy.
were gathered in Belgium, and there
he went. 1t was not long before one
night at a ball he saw De Beauville
dancing with the noblesse of France
and. going up to him, drew his glove
across bis face. There was no avoid
ing a meeting, and De Beauville con-
scented to fight.
The two men met on a field where