Connecticut western news., 1920-05-06
to England as a private gentleman, eager to begin life anew.

OI puSL SouAo OS 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 a pathos that if his love could have been returned, 1t
 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 Selfshness and Sensu- ality that had engulfed him. But he
 could not resist this last sad confes- sion of his love; and when she weeps at the sorrow of which she has been the innocent cause, he implores: Do not weep, dear Miss ManetteI the life lead renders me unworthy of your pure love. My last supplication Is this: Think now and then that there Is man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you"
 But dark days were to come. In the year 1789 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 1792 MT. 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 had set fsot fin Paris did they realize into what a caldron of fury they had plunged. MT. Lorry, on account of his business relations, was allowed his freedom, but Darnay was hurried at once to the prison of La Force, there
 70 await his trial. The reason given for the outrage was the new law for the arrest of all returning French amigrants but the true cause was that he had been recognized as Charles fHa@E t"H#.
 These tidings soon reached London and Dr. Manette, with his daughter Lucie, hastened 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 the Doctor succeeded in gaining promise that Darnay's life should be spared, the latter was not allowed to leave his prison. - ..#.
 At last came the dreadful year o1 the Reign of Terror. The sympathy which at first had been given to Dr. had become weakened through the influence of the blOodthirsty Defarge. Also, there had been found in the ruins of the Bastile q pa. per which contained Dr. Manette's ac count of his own abduction and i'm. and pronouncing a solemn ,urse upon Ehe House of -Evremonde and their descendants, who were de clared to be the authors of his eighteen years of misery. Charles Darnay't doom was sealed. ''Back to the Con. ciergerie and death within twenty foul i hours."
 To Sydney Carton, who had followed his friends to Paris, came an inspira. tion. Had he not promised Lucie that he would die to save life she lovedi By bribery, he gains admittance to the prison Darnay is removed unconscious from the cell, and Carton sits down tc await his fate.
 Along the Paris streets six tum. brils are carrying the days wine to Ia guillotine. In the third car sits a young man with his hands bound. AS the cries from the street arise against him they only move him to quiet smile as he shakes more loosely his hair about his face.
 Crashl A head is held up and the knitting women who are ranged about the scaffold count "One."
 The third cart comes up and the sup. posed Evremonde descends. His lips move, forming the words, ga life you love-"
 The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, then all flashes away.
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