White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-30

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was lmplacable and a~pprehended hin
at FantIne's death-bed. He was lodged
In Jail, but having enormous strength
he broke out and returned to his house
TO secure his great fortune. He had
time to hide his money in the haunted
forest of Montfermeil. but was cap
tured and sent to the galleys for life
Nine months later at Toulon he
broke his chain and saved the life OF
a sailor who was hanging head down
from the topmast of a ship, but he
himself either fell or jumped of from
the spar and was reported drowned
The battle Of Waterloo had taken
place and the Thenadiers, who had
been guilty Of robbing the dead on the
fatal field, kept a wretched inn al
Montfermeil. They treated Cozette
now eight years old, with great cruelty,
Christmas, 1923. was the climax Of her
wretchedness she was sent after dark
10 fetch water from a spring in the
dreadful forest. A poorly dressed
stranger. passing, carried her heavy
bucket. At the tavern he protected
her from her mistress threatened
punishment, and the next morning he
paid Thenadler 1900 francs and took
cozette to Paris, where he occupied n
tumble-down habitation just outside
of the city the gloomiest place in ell
the gloomy boulevard. by day ugly, al
twilight lugubrlous. and % night sin
lister. He thought hi-iself secure
there. but his l~enevolence made him
conspicuous. and the old care-taker, be-
Ing full of envy and observation-disclosures,
grew suspicious of her lodger.
one day he saw Javert. He took
Cosette and again fled. But Javert
was on his track. Only by unex-
ampled adroitness and by his colossal
strength did he escape by climbing
over n hlga wall. He found himself
in the garden of the convent Of the
Petit Picpns, where worked Pere
Fauchelevent, whose life NJ. Madeleine
has saved when he was mayor of
NJ. The gardener. out of his grail
tude. got him appointed his assistant
by representing him to be his brother.
Cosette was taken into the convent
school. She grew mp into a charming
girl beauty suddenly zane to her like
the blossoms TO a cherry tree in April,
and Jean Vatican, happy in loving her
as his daughter. as his granddaughter,
as the only woman he had ever loved,
guarded her as a sacred treasure.
lie had good roason TO be wary, for
the Thenadlers had come to Paris and
Joined n band of robbers and Javert
never forgot. lie had several desper-
ate encounters with them. On the one
side outlaws; on the other undertaking
law personihed. lie took part In the
nborfive revolution of 1890 and saved
Javert's life. at last winning the adj
mlration Of that implacable 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-loye.
Baron Marius, the son Of a maj
whom Thenadier had robbed at Water
loo and incidentally saved from q
terrible death, had been turned out Of
his house by his royalist grandfather
and was earning a poor livelihood by
literature. He saw her and they net.
Their love went through more than the
usual vicissitudes. During the insur-
rection Jean Vatican carried the youth
through. the mazes OF the Paris sewers
and brought him desperately wounded
to his grandfather's house. The old
mar relented and consented TO the
marriage. Jean Vatican gave Cosette
a dowry OF about 100000 francs. In
order TO have n conscience perfectly
clear he told his life story TO Marius,
who, not understanding the grandeur
of the spirit that had never done any
thing but good, allowed him to go away
with n broken heart Thenadier, how
v came to the baron TO blackmall
him and uneonsclously revealed what
a noble life Jean Vatican had led.
Marius, taking Cosette, fastened TO
the old mans deeth-5ed, ard gave him
one last taste from the cup OF happi-
ness. He died In their arms.
Victor Hugo calls "Les M~lserables'
"a drama In which the hero Is the
Infinite, the second character is Man"
II Is In reality a melodrama In which
are mingled scenes Of history, a host OF
characters from the highest to tie
lowest. improbabili.ies which strain
ones credullty, a vast amount OF rare
and curious information on all sorts
of subjects. dissertations ON philoso-
ply, science, politics, and religion. Its
treatment of social injustice had a
powerful influence on public opinion,
not only In France hut In many
countries. II has been an e3och-mak-
Ing book.
Copyright. 1919. by the Post Publishing Co.
fThe Boston Post).