The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-06-10

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.
be broke out and returned to his house
to secure his great fortuge. 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 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.
Christmas. 1923, was the climax of her
| 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 'habltation just outside
of the city; the gloouiest place in all
the gloomy boulevard. BY day ugly, at
twilight lugubrious, and sl night sin
| lister. He thought hi-iself secure
there. but his benevolenee made him
conspicuous, and the old care-taker. be-
ing full of envy and -uncharitableness,
grew suspicious of her ledger.
One day he saw Javert. He took
| Ccsette and again fed. 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 NJ. Madeleine
has saved when he was mayor of
M. The gardener. out of his graft
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 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
| miration of that implacable and fatally
honorable man.
But there was ore 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 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 a poor livelihood by
literature. He saw her and they met.
Their love went through more than the
usual vicissitudes. During the insus-
rection Jean Vatican 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 Vatican gave Cosette
dOwry of about 600 1000 francs. In
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 go away
with a broken heart Thenadier, how
ever. came to the baron TO blackmail
him and unconsciously revealed what
noble life Jean Vatican had led
Marlus, taking Cosette, FASTENED tO
the old mans death-bed, and gave him
one last taste from the sup of happi
ness. He died in their arms.
Victor Hugo calls lies Miserables'
"a drama in which the hero is the
Infinite the second character Is Man.
1t is in reality melodrama In which
are mingled scenes of history, host Of
characters from the highest to chs
lowest, improbabilities which strait
ones credulity, a vast amount OF rare
and curious information on all sort.
of subjects. dissertations on phiioso
ply, science, politics, and religion IT
treatment of social injustice had
powerful influence on public opinion
not only In France but In man.
countries. 1t has been an epoch-mak
ing book.
! Copyright. 1919. by the Post Publishing Co
II (The Boston POST. =
Soon Lost Art.
Among thp lost arts at the world, l