Connecticut western news., 1920-07-08


 to Arras, where the trial took place, and just as the judge was condemning the wrong man, he confessed he was the missing convict that had robbed the bishop and the hurdy-gurdy boy.
 The judge let him go; but Javert was implacable and apprehended him 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 sailor who was hanging head down from the topmast of ship, but he himself either fell or jumped off 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 wretched inn at Montfermeil. They treated Cozette, now eight years old, with great cruelty. SlIlI olAndSp 4O%O, was lDC Nlllud3 Ol DCt wretchedness she was sent after dark to 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 Thenadier 1500 francs and took Nr owgc xxvhn ha a tumble-down habitation just outside of the city; the gloomiest place in all the gloomy boulevard By day ugly, at twilight lugubrious, and sl night sin ister. He thought hiAself secure there, but his benevolence made him conspicuous, and the old care-taker. be- ing full of envy and .uncharitableness, 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 a high wall. He found himself in the garden of the convent of the Petit Picpus, where worked Pere Fauchelevent, whose life M. Madeleine has saved when he was mayor of M. The gardener, out of his grati- tude, got him appointed his assistant by representing him to be his brother. Cosette was taken into the convent school. She grew up into charming girl; beauty suddenly came to her like the blossoms to cherry tree in April, and Jean valjean, happy flowing her as his daughter. as his granddaughter, as the only woman he had ever loved, guarded her as a 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 undertaking law personified. He took part in the abortive revolution of 1880 and saved Javert's life, at last winning the ad- miration 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-love.
 Baron Marius, the son of a man whom Thenadier had robbed at Water loo and incidentally saved from a terrible death, had been turned out of his house by his royalist grandfather and was earning poor livelihood by literature. He saw her and they met. Their love went through more than the usual vicissltudes. During the insur- rection Jean valjean carried the youth through the mazes of the Paris sewers and brought him desperately wounded to his grandfather's house. The old man relented and consented to the marriage. Jean Valjean gave Cosette a dowry of about 6O0,0O0 francs. Tn order to have 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 % away with broken heart Thenadler, how ever, came to the baron to blackmail him and unconsciously revealed what a noble life Jean valjean had led. Marius, taking Cosette, hastened to the old mans death-bed, and gave him one last taste from the cup of happi- ness. He died in their arms.
 Victor Hugo calls "Les Miserables" ca drama in which the hero is the Infinite. the second character is Man" It is in reality melodrama in which are mingled scenes of history, host of characters from the highest to the lowest, improbabilities which strain ones credulity. vast amount of rare and curious information on all sorts of subjects, dissertations on philoso- phy, science, politics, and religion. It's treatment of social injustice had a powerful influence on public opinion, not only in France but in many countries. It has been an epoch-mak- ing book