Evening journal., 1922-07-22
CONTINUED From Our Last Issue)
..v--- CHAPTER Y.


CHAPTER v.
One morning in August the acad
envy in the Rue du Hasard was in
vaced by lie Chapelier accompanied
by man of remarkable appear
ance, whose herculean stature an'
disdgured countenance seemed vag
ueiy familiar to Andre-Louis.
lie Chapelier, whose manner wat
very grave. named him to Andre
Louis.
.'This is NJ. Danton. a brother.
lawyer. President of the Cordeliers
OF whom you viii have heard"
OF course Andre-Louis had heard
Of him. Who had not, by then?
lie Shapelier proceeded. 1T IS
open war between the Third Estate
and the Privileged"
WAS 1t ever anything else?"
tPerhaps not; but It has assumed
new character. You'll have heard
of the duel between Lameth and
the Due de Castries?"
"a trifiing AFFAIR"
I'm its results. But IT might have
been far other. Mlrabeau is chal-
lenged and insulted now at every
sitting. But he goes his way, cold
bloodedly wise. Others are not so
circumspect; they meet insult with
insult, blow with blow. and blood IS
being shed in private duels. The
thing is reduced by these swords
men of nobility to a system"
Andre-Louis nodded. He was
thinking OF Philippe de Vilmorin.
Eyes" he said, ut is an old trick of
theirs It is so simple and direct
IKE themselves. wonder only that
they didn't hit upon this system
sooner"
'But they mean to make up for
for lost time--sacred namel" cried
Danton. Challenges are flying
right and left between these bully
swordmen, these spadassinicides,
ana poor devils OF the robe who
have never learnt to fence anything
but a quill. It's just--murder."
Said Danton. Between us we
must resolve the riddle OF how TO ex-
tinguish NJ. de La Tour d'Azyr and
his friends"
"Who ?"
Sharp as a pistol-shot came that
question. as Danton was turning
away. The tone of it brought him
up short He turned again, lie
Chapelier with him.
= said NJ. de La Tour d'Azyr."
"And it is La Tour d'Azyr you de-
sire me to kill? asked Andre-Louis
rry slowly. after the manner OF one
whose thoughts are meanwhile pom.
dering the subject.
rThats it," said Danton. and
not job for a prentice hand, 1
can assure you"
rAh. but this alters things" said
Andre Louis. thinking aloud. "It
Offers a great temptation"
lie Chapelier and Danton ex-
changed glances. then watched him.
waiting. what time he considered.
He turned to them. and they saw
that he was very pale, that his great
dark eyes glowed oddly.
There viii probably be some DIM I
II ty IN finding a suppleant for this
apor Lagron." he said. "Our fell
Nv ountrymen will be none so
eager to offer themselves to the
swords of Privileges"
True enough" said lie Chapelier
and. then, as If suddenly
Ieaping to the thing in Andre-Louis'
mind: "Andrel" he cried. Would
you ?"
1T IS what l was considering. It
would give me a legitimate place in
the Assembly. II your Tour d'Azyrs
choose to seek me out then. why. j
ther blood be upon their own heads.
J. SHAH certainly do nothing to dis
courage them" He smiled curiously. |,
u am just a rascal who tries TO be
hone st-Scaramouche always. in
fact; a creature for sophistries."
CHAPTER VI.
After an absence of rather more
thar a week, NJ. lie Marquis de la
Tour d'Azyr was back in his place
on 9he Cote Droit of the National
Assembly.
4. Al. Andre-Louis Moreau deputy
applicant. vice Emmanuel J.agron.
deceased. for Aneiens in the Depart
nent of the Loire"
. AZ tt la i0ti "a ftEaA CAAtVh AANfAA-
eli. out of the gloomy abstraction in
yhich he had sat. The successor Of
he deputy he had slain must. in
ms event. be an object of grim in
2rest to him. That interest was
G ahtened when he heard him
apcd. when. looking across. he rec
rnizod indeed in this Andre-Louisl
foreau the young scoundrel who
fas continually crossing his path.
pntinuaily exerting against him +,
lee moving. sinister influence 70
make him regret that he should have {
pared his life that day at Gavrillac t
re years ago. (
He looked az the young man in S
vtonaer rather than in anger and c
looking al him he was filled by a
vague. almost a premonitory. uneasi- b
ness. 1
A. the very outset. the presence n
which in itself he conceived to be a s.
challenge was to demonstrate itself