The north Mississippi herald., 1920-06-11

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 vroke out and returned to his house
TO }ecure his great fortpQe. He had
time to hide his money iE the haunted
forest of Montfermeil, but was cap
tured and sent to the ga;leys 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 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 Tkenadiars, who had
ben guilty of robbing the dead On the
Il field, kept a wretched inn at
M6ntfermei. They treated Cozette,
now eight years old, with great cruelty.
Christmas, 1923, was the climax of her
wretcheIness she was sent after dark
t~1etch&ater from a spring in the
dreadful forest. A poorly dressed
stranger, passing, carried her heavy
hucl-rt At the tavern he protected
her rom her mistress threatened
pm hment, and the neXt morning he
pai1 fhenadier 1900 francs and TOOK
o. lite to Paris, where he occupied
tn le-down habitation just outside
OF ne city; the gloonliest place in all
TIE gioomy boulevard. BY day ugly, at
tT Ight luguhrious. and % night sin
IS r He thought hi-hself secure
tlcra. but his benevolence made him
c6 Spicuous and the old care-taker, be
ipf full Of envy and 'uncharitahlenesS
grew suspicious of her lodger.
One day he saw Javert. He took
C3eatte and again fled. But Javert
va on his track. Only by unex-
az e adroitness atd by his colossal
str aath did he escape by climbing
orr 4 b gh wall. lie found himself
ia me garden of the convent of the
Petit Picpus, where worked Pere
Fauchelevent, whose life NJ. Madeleine
has saved when he was mayor OF
Nj. The gardener out of his graft
tude, got him appointed his assistant
by representing him to be his brother
Cosette was taken iptO the convent
school She grew up Into q charming
girl: beauty suddenly came to her like
the blossoms to 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.
He had coed reason to be wary. fer
the Thenadiers had come to Paris and
Joined a band of robbers; and Javert
never forgot. He had several desper-
ate encounters with them. On the one
side outlaws; on the other undertaking
au ersonifed. He took part in the
lbf i've revolution of 1880 and saved
raN rt's lie, at last winning the ad-
@irayion q hat implccable and fatally
honorable man.
But there was ere danger from
which ne could not protect CoSette:
the most beautiful thing in the world,
which nevertheless seemed to him his
worst eRemy-love.
Baron Marius, the son of man
whom Thenadier had robbed at Water
loo and incidentally saved from
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 met.
Their love went through more than the
usual vicissitudes. During the insF-
rection Jean Vatican carried the youth
through the maZes of the Paris sewers
and brought him desperately wounded
to his grandfathers house. The old
Iiman relented and consented to the
marriage Jean Vatican gave CoSette
La dowry of about 600 900 francs. In
order to have q conscience perfectly
clear he told his life s.ory to Marius,
Fwho, not understanding the grandeur
Bof the spirit that had never done any
sthing but good, allowed him TO 90 away
Itwitb a broken heart. Thenadier, how
Ever. came to the baron to bl@ckmali
him and unconsciously revealed what
ba noble life Jean Vatican had led.
Marius, taking Cosette, hastened 10
the old mans death-bed. and gave him
one last taste from the '.up OF happl-
~aess. He died in their arms.
Victor Hugo calls LES Miserables'
Y a drama in which the hero is the
Infinite, the second character is Man, y
Il is in reality melodrama in which
fare mingled scenes of history, host OF
characters from the highest to The
lowest, improbabilities which strain
ones credulity. a vast amount of rare
and curious information on all sorts
of subjects, dissertations on philoso-
ply, scieiice, politics, and religion. Its
Treatment of social injustice had
powerful influence on public opinion
not only in France but in many
0countries. II has been an epoch-mak-
ling book.
ESopyright, 1919, by the Post Publishing Co
CTke Boston POST.