The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-04-09


most wholly recovered from the effects
OF his long Imprisonment. and il was
only In times Of strong excitement that
any trace of his past insanity could be
detected. The sweet face of Lucie
Manette soon won the hearts OF both
the young men, but it was Darnay to
whom she gave her love.
And so that interview between Lucie
and Sydney Carton has pathos that
wrings our hearts. He knew that even
IL his love could have been returned, II
would have added only to his bitter.
ness and sorrow, for he felt 1t would
have been powerless to lift him from
the slough Of Selfishness and Sensu-
ality that had engulfed him. But he
could not resist this last sad confess
sion OF his love; and when she weeps
ut the sorrow Of which she has been
the innocent cause, he implores: do
not weep, dear Miss Manette; the life
lead renders me unworthy of your
pure love. My last supplication is this !:
Think now and then that there is a
man who would give his life to keep
life you love beside you"
But dark days were to come. In the
year 1889 the downtrOdden French
peasantry turned upon their oppres.
sors. The streets of Paris were filled
with crowds of people whose eager
cry was for ''blood." Madame Defarge
no longer sat behind the counter of her
small wine shop, silently knitting into
her work the names Of her hated
enemies, but axe in hand and knife at
her belt, headed frenzied mob of
women on to the Bastile. The French
Revolution had actually begun.
Madame Defarge was one of the
leading spirits of the Revolution.
Early in life she had seen her family
fall victims to the tyranny and lust of
The cruel nobility and from that time
her life had been devoted to revenge.
Three years of crime and bloodshed
passed, and in 1902 Mr.. Jarvis Lorry
and Charles Darnay landed in Paris.
the former to protect the French
branch of Tellson & CO., and the latter
to befriend an old family servant who
had besought his help. Not until they
nad set foot in Paris did they realize
into what caldron OF fury they had
plunged. Mr.. Lorry, on account of his
business relations, was allowed his
freedom, but Darnay was hurried at
once to the prison of La Force, there
20 await his trial. The reason given
for the outrage was the new law for
the arrest of all returning French
migrants, but the true cause was that
ne had been recognized as Charles
Evremonde.
These tidings soon reached London,
and DIR. Manette, with his daughter
Lucie, fastened to Paris, for he felt
sure that his long confinement in the
Bastile would win for him the sym.
pathy of the French people, and thus
enable him to save his son-in-law.
Days and months passed, and although
he Doctor succeeded in gaining a
promise that Darnay's life should be
spared, the latter was not allowed to
cave his prison.
At last came the dreadful year Of
he Reign of Terror. The sympathy
which at first had been given to DIR.
jeanette had become weakened through
he influence of the bloodthirsty
Madame Defarge. Also, there had been
ound in the ruins of the Bastile a pa
per which contained DR.. Manette's &C.
cunt Of his own abduction and i'm
'risonment, and pronouncing a solemn
urse upon The House of Evremonde
nd their descendants, who were de-
Jared to be the authors of his eighteen
7ears OF misery. Charles Darnays
Dom was sealed. Back to the Con-
iergerie and death within twenty-four
ours."
To Sydney Carton, who had followed
is friends to Paris, came an inspira-
ion. Had he not promised Lucie that
Q would die to save a life she loved?
" bribery, he gains admittance to the
rlson; Darnay is removed unconscious
rom the cell, and Carton sits down to
wait his fate.
Along the Paris streets six tum.
rils are carrying the days wine to la
uillotine. In the third car sits young
ian with his hands bound. AS the
rles from the street arise against him
hey only move him to quiet smile as
e shakes more loosely his hair about
Is face.
Crash! A head is held up and the
hitting women who are ranged about
he scaffold count .One."
The third cart comes up and the sup
osed Evremonde descends. His lips
eve, forming the words, "a life YOU
w."
Che murmuring Of many voices, the
Of many faces, then all
ashes away.
"Twenty-three"
i am the resurrection and the life.
nth the Lord; he that believeth In
e. though he We're dead, yet shall he
We; and whatsoever liveth and be-
aveth In me shall never die"
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