Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-04-14
Avenged
By SARAH BAXTER

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friends, Aiphonse Dubois and CASTOR
Damourier. Damourier was six years
younger than his friend and a bache-
lor. Dubois was forty-ive and the ia
Their Of a girl twenty years old.
Damourier, who was passing through
middle age, cast longing eyes on Lou
Use Dubois, who was in the prime Of
youth. He devoted himself to her,
and she, fattered by the attentions of
an older man, accepted them.
Possibly she might have become his
wife had not Cupid stepped in and
brought about passion between her
and young man of twenty-three, Ar
mand La Fevre.
The evil may lie dormant in a man
for years, then under a strain break
out in all his virulence. Damourier
gave no sign of the ranking within
him. He had not proposed to Louise,
though he was about to do so. He had
not intimated to her father that he
was a sutton for his daughters hand.
On the appearance of La Fevre he
stepped back, and when Louise an
nounced her engagement to her young
er lover he offered his impressive con-
gratulatiOns. But he resolved that she
should be his wife.
France was then entering upon the
throes of revolution. Dubois and Da-
INQUIRER became advocates of reform,
though they deprecated the reign of
terror.
Robespierre got the upper hand as
leader of the Radicals and by his order
the guillOtine was working full time
in the Place de la Revolution. The
mobiles were hunted down, put through
the mOckery Of a trial before some
citizen butcher or baker or sewer clean
er and hustled off to execution. Soon
it became only necessary to send a
person to death to inform on him as
an enemy to France. The names OF
the accused and the informer were en-
tered in a book for the purpose kept
by an official of the revolution.
One morning La Fevre was with his
fiancee. Shocked at the terrible mas
sacre that was daily perpetrated, Lou
Use, in an agony of fear, was trem-
bling in her lovers arms. The tramp
of men was heard without and an
officer appeared at the head of a file of
soldiers.
care you Citizen La Fevre" asked
the officer
81 am
Citizen La Fevre, you are accused
of being an enemy of France. Come -
Louise chung to her lover, and the
guard was obliged to tear him away
from her. With a shrek she fell back
in a sWOon.
NJ. Dubois eXerted himself at the
risk of his own life to save La Fevre.
Damourier went to Louise and assured
her that he would leave no stone I'M
turned to restore her lover to her. But
Notwithstanding her fathers efforts
and Damouriers offers the young man
was sent to the guillotine.
A year passed during which Damou-
fier was profuse in his sympathies for
Louise and was again becoming SO at
tentive to her as to excite comment
among her friends when one day Nine.
La Fevre called upon her and told her
that in examining her dead sons pa
pers she had found one that had been
sent to him anonymously. warning him
to beware of Damourier She handed
it to Louise to read.
Love in the girl was converted by
this information into a fierce revenge.
Nevertheless she concealed her feel
ings. Her first act would be to con
firm her suspicion that Damourier had
been responsible for the death Of her
lover. Quietly she began to make in
quiries as to how during the reign of
terror one would secure the conviction
Of another as an enemy of France
The information she received led her
to form a plan.
She asked her father for 5000 francs
with which to erect monument to hel
lover. The money was given her, and
with it, yelled, so as not to be known
she went to the Office of the Official
who kept the records Of those who
persisted as enemies Of France anG
asked for private interview. WheI
the interview was finished the keeper
Of the records had her 5000 francs
and she had the key to the room con
tanning the records.
From that time she treated Damon
rier with great consideration. She re
minded him how sympathetic he hat
been with her in the Loss Of her lover
She Questiond him continuously as tt
what means he had taken to save Ii
Fevre. And when encouraged by he
gratitude he offered II she would be hi
wife to do what he could to eradicat
the scar she had received she said tina
no one but an migrate could refuse.
When Damourier asked Louise t,
name a day for their marriage sh
said that she was preparing a monu
ment for her dead love, and as soOl
as that had been accomplished sh
would accede to his request.
Louise invited her father, Damon
rier and few intimate friends to g
to the cemetery where La Fevre's bod
was buried to witness the setting u
of the monument she had prepared
When they arrived at the grave ther
was no monument
where is it, Louise?' asked he
father.
Louise produced paper and rea
aloud: