The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-07

One day he saw Javert He took
Cosette and again fled. But Javert
was on his track. Only by unexam.
pied adroitness and by his colossal
strength did he escape by climbing
over a high wall. He found himself
IN the garden of the convent of the
Petit Pfcpus, where worked Pere
Fauchelevent, whose life M Made
le1ne had saved when he was mayor
OF Nj. The gardener, out of
! gratitude. got him appointed his is.
slstant by representing him to be his
brother. Cosette was taken into the
convent school. She grew up into a
charming girl; beauty suddenly came
to her like the blossoms to a cherry
tree IN April, and Jean Vatican, hap.
Ply In loving her as his daughter, as
| his granddaughter, as the only WON.
an he had ever loved, guarded her as
! sacred treasure
He had good reason to be wary, for
the Thenadiers had come to Paris and
joined band Of robbers and Javert
never forgot He had several desper.
ate encounters with them. On the
one side outlaws; on the other I'M
deviating law personified He took
part in the abortive revolution of 1880
and saved Javert's life, at last win
ming the admiration of that implaca
BILE and fatally honorable man.
But there was one danger from
which he could not protect Cosette:
the most beautiful thing in the world
which nevertheless seemed to him his
| worst enemy-love
Baron Marius, the son of a man
whom Thenadier had robbed at Water
loo and had incidentally saved from a
terrible death, had been turned out
! of his house by his royalist grandfath.
er and was earning a poor livelihood
by literature. He saw her and they
met. Their love went through more
| than the usual vicissitudes DURING
tn Instruction Jean Vatican carried
the youth through the mazes Of the
Paris sewers and brought him des
perately wounded to his grandfath
er's house. The old man relented and
consented to the marriage. Jean Val
jean gave Cosette dowry of about
100000 francs. In order to have a
conscience perfectly clear he told his
| life story to Marius, who, not under
standing the grandeur of the spirit
that had never done anything but
good, allowed him to go away with a
! DIOheu heart. 1QoQdQlor, however,
came to the baron to blackmail him
and unconsciously revealed what a
noble life Jean Vatican had led. Mar
| ius, taking Cosette. fastened to the
old mans death-bed and gave hin
one last taste from the cup Of happt
ness. He died in their arms.
Victor Hugo calls Les Miserable:
"a drama in which the hero is the In
finite, the second character is Man
1t is in reality a melodrama in which
are mingled scenes of history, hos
of characters from the highest to the
| lowest, improbabilities which strai1
ones credulity. vast amount of rare
and curious information on all sorts
of subjects, dissertations on philoso
ply, science, politics, and religion. IT.
treatment of social injustice had {
powerful influence on public opinion
not only in France, but in many 9th
er countries. 1t has been an epoch
making book
| Copyright, 1919, by Post PUBLISHING
Co. (The Boston Post
! Published by special arrangemen
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rights reserved.
"Robinson crusoe," by Daniel De
foe, as condensed by James B. Connol
~, will be printed tomorrow.
LEAPS 20 STORIES TO DEATH
| NEW YORK, July IA. S. Ray
mond. 80 years old, mining enginee
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