Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-08-06


offering him his hand with the re.
mark that the convict has honor aud q
heart.
Here our story begins.
Rudolph, we soon learn, has two
aims in venturing incognito into the
filth of Paris The first is To dis
cover, < he can. the Whereabouts OF
Mrs Georges son. German. who has
been taken from her in his youth by a
vicious husband. The second is to
trace, if possible. his lost daughter.
who is supposed to have died ia I'm
fancy. 1t is around these two themes
that the romance moves. In pursuing
them NJ. Rudolph is be>et by every Inn
aginable adventure. He is locked up
in q subterranean cellar. where the
waters Of the Seine slowly creep up to
his neck, and from which predica-
ment the faithful SlaSher rescues him.
Inummerable traps are laid for his
feet; but from each successive snare
he miraeulously escapes. And through
out this series Of entauglements he
never ahandons his premise that no
matter how depraved the individual,
there is potential good in all human
ity, which, If nurtured. viii blossom
into virtue. In consequence he be-
comes a sort of inferior Providence"
TO those whom he meets He saves
the blameless debtor from prison. and
places an honest livelihood within his
reach. He does a thousand kind
neSses. On the other hand he does not
hesitate to bring the unworthy to
justice Relentlessly he causes the
eyes of a wretch who has been pitt.
less to the weak to be put out. that
he may know what II means to be
helpless and the prey of the strong.
The story is q network of crimes
and their eventual punishment, and
everywhere triumphant we fad the
creed that In the breast of humankind
burns a spark of the Divine.
The portion of the tale dealing with
the kidnapping Of Fleur-de- Marie from
her home with Mrs. George by Screech
Owl, the blinded schoolmaster, and
the imp Hoppy is a novel in itself
How these wretches wait for the in.
nocent girl; convey her to Paris by
COACH and thrust her into the arms
Of the police, who in turn deposit her
in prison is exciting reading. From
prison she is released by a written or
der. only to fall a victim to a band
of hired rufliaus who try to drown her
in the Seine As she is floating down
the river one of her old comrades from
Saint Lazare leaps in and saves her
life. Next we see her in the great
Paris hospital, and it is at this juno
ture that Grand Duke Rudolph of Ger
olsteln obtains trace Of her; discovers
that she is his own daughter; and
bears her in triumph to his maguh-
cent palace to be transformed from
fugitive Of the streets 90 her Royal
Hiehnpss Princess Amelia. Here for
brief period, we behold our little
Fleur-de-Marie the idol of the court
ana sought In marriage by prince Of
the realm
But the stigma of the past is ever
fresh in the girls mind She cannot
shake it off Though she adores her
lover, she refuses TO wed him, saying
that She Goves him too much to give
him a hand that has been touched by
the rufIians of the city" Poor, brave
Fleur-de-M Marie! She at last seeks
peace in a convent; and when she
dies there, We have no regrets that
her blameless hut troubled life is end
ed.
In the meantime what of German?
We search for him through an equal
ly ingenious train Of happenings. With
all NJ. Rudolph's wealth and astute-
ness It IS no easy task to find this
missing boy no is lost in the great
city Of Paris. But he is found. Like
Goualeuse, the young hero has kept
his soul unsullipd by evil Urged 80
rob his employer, he has not only re-
fused, but has given information
against those who plotted the crime
that they might be brought to justice
As a result Of this good deed, how
ever, he has been bounded from one
end Of Paris 10 the other At last he
fails a victim TO a monster Of crime,
Jacques Ferrand, a corrupt notary,
who casts him into prison on a ticti-
ti0as charge. He Is no favOrite. for
by scorning to mingie with the vicious
creatures about him he incurs their