Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-06-10

the wrong man, he confessed he wal
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,
ne 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 gaIleys 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 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 wretcEed inn at
Montfermell. They treated COzette,
now eight years old, with great cruelty.
Christmas, 1923, was the climax of her
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 1900 francs and took
CoZette to Paris, where he occupied a
tumble-down habitation just outside
of the city; the gloomIest place in all
the gloomy boulevard. BY day ugly, at
twilight lugubriOus, and sI night sin
lister. He thought hiAself secure
there, but his benev0lence 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 ded. But Javert
was on his track. Only by unex.
ampled adroItness ard 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 graft
tude, got him appointed his assistant
by representing him 10 be his brother. |
COsette was taken ipto the convent
school. She grew up into a charming
girl; beauty suddenly came 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.
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 adj
of that implacable and fatally
honorable man.
But there was pre- danger from
which he could not protect COsette:
he most beautiful thing in the world,
which nevertheless seemed to him his
worst eneny-lOve.
Baron Marius, the son of a man
whom Thenadier had robbed at Water
90 and incidentally saved from a
errible death, had been turned out of
lis house by his rOyalist grandfather
md was earning poor livelihood by
literature. He saw her and they met.
their love went through more than the I
sual vicissitudes. During the insuT-
ection Jean Vatican carried the youth
trough the mazes of the Paris sewers
nd brought him desperately wounded
0 his grandfather's house. The old
IAN relented and consented to the q
marriage. Jean Vatican gave Cosette v
dowry of about 600 900 francs. In Il
rder to have conscience perfectly v
lear he told his life story to Marius, u
tho, not understanding the grandeur "
the spirit that had never done any. Z
ling but good, allowed him to go away u
18th a broken heart. Thenadier, how n
YER, came to the baron to blackmaIl m
I'm and unconsciously revealed what e
noble life Jean Vatican had led. :
arius. taking Cosette, FASTENED to
lie old mans death-bed, Und gave him
le last taste from the ,.up of happl-
sss. He died in their arms.
Victor Hugo calls lies Miserables"
drama In which the hero is the
finite, the second character is Man."
is In reality a melodrama In which
e mingled scenes of history, a host Of
aracters from the highest to the
west, imprObabllities which strain
e's credulity, a vast amount Of rare
ID curious Information on all sorts
subjects, dissertations on philOsO-
y, science. politics, and religion. Its
eatment Of social injustice had q
werful influence on public opinion,
I only In France but in many
1t has been an epoch-mak.
I book.
Dyright. 1873. by the Post PublIshing Co.
(Tho Boston Post).
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