Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-06
kContinued from Last Issue)

6ldfCloliy LOPOl llOISu HAL VI per
haRs forty.
I'M the crook of his left arm he car
ried y fencing mask. His keen glance
played over Andre Louis from head
to foot.
"Monsieur?' he inquired, politely.
IT. was clear that he mistook An
DIRE Louis quality, for despite his
sadly reduced fortunes, his exterior
was )irreproachable.
"You have a notice below, mon
sieur," he said.
A You are come in regard to that?'
Is Andre Louis shrugged and half
smiled. "One must live" said he.
BIT come in. Take off your coat"
NJ. des Amis said, land let us see
what YOU can do. Nature, at least,
designed you for a swordsman. You
are lighy. active, and supple, with a
good length of arm, n you seem
intelligent. l may teach you enough
for my purpose, which is that you
should give the elements of the art
to new pupils. Take that mask and
foil. and come over here"
He led him to the enc of the room,
where bare floor was scored with
lines of chalk to guide the beginner
in the management of his feet.
At the end of a ten minutes bout
M. des Amis offered him the situa-
ton, and explained it. In addition
to imparting the rudiments of the
art to beginners, he was to brush out
the fencing room every morning,
keep the foils furnished, assist the
gentlemen who came for lessons to
dress and undress, and make himself
generally useful. His wages for the
presenS. were to be forty livres a
month";
The position had its humiliations.
But, if ANDRE Louis would hope to
dine, he must begin by eating his
pride as an hors d'oeuvre.
And So" he said, controlling a
grimaces 1.-The robe yields not only
to the sword, but to the broom as
well. Eee it So"
1t is characteristic Of him that,
having made hat choice, he should
have thrown himself into the work
with enthusiasm.
Every morning before the opening
of the academy. the master would
fence foS half an hour with his new
assistant. Under this really excel
sselent tuition Andre Louis improved at
b rate that both astonished and fiat
tered Ms des Amis. He would have
been less flattered and more as
founded, had he known that at least
half the, secret of Andre Louis amaz-
ing PROGRESS lay in the fact hat he
was dewouring the contents of the
master's) library, which was made up
Of a dozen or so treatises on fencing
by great masters.
AT the end of a month it suddenly
dawned upon M. des Amis that his
assistant yhad developed into a fencer
with whom it became necessary to
exert himself if he were to escape
defeat.
Il said from the first" he told him
one day, fthat Nature designed you
for a swoRdsman." -,
ITO the master be the glory" SAID
Andre LOUIS. =.
His relations with M. des
had meanwhile become the friend
lest. and HE was now beginning to
receive from him other pupils than
mere beginners. Mr.. des Amis, a
chivaIrous, topen handed fellow. re-
warded hisj zeal by increasing his
wages to fotlr louis a month.
CHAPTER II =.
Andre Louis was in the gardens of
the PalaiS Royal, the universal
rendezvous on that Sunday morn.
ing in june when the news OF
Necker's dismissal spread, carrying
with it dismay and fury. 80,
He beheld D. slight young man with
q nock-marked ACE leap to a table
outside the Cafe de Foy, a drawn
sword in hiS hand, crying. I
arms!" And lthen upon the silence
6f astonishment that cry imposed,
This young man poured a flood OF
!, inaammatory eloquence.
y Enthusiasm swept the crowd, a
Amotley crowd made up of men n
8women of every class. from vaga-
Ibond to nobleman. from harlot TO
lady of fashion,
Andre Louis looked on. and grew
afraid. This crowd, he felt, must be
restrained. That hot headed, ire
sponsible sufferer would have the
town in a blaze by night unless
something were done. The young
man. Camille Desmoulins, later to
become famous, Aeapt down from his
table still waving his sword, stiii
shouting, ITO arms! follow me-"
Andre Louis adva need to occupy the
improvised rostrum, n came SUD
denly face to face with a tall mar
beautifully dressed d. -.
Thus face to fhce, each ookin
into the eyes of the other. Ihen
Andre Louis laughed.
THAT fellow, top, has a very dam
gerou gift Of eloq uenSI' M lie Mar
quis." he said.
"Gallows-bird!" he Was answered:
at shall tell the Lieutenant General
that you are to be- found In farls.
my God, man!Y cried Andre.
Louis. "Will o talk like that OIL
lieutenant Generals when Paris it.
self Is likely to TUMBLE o your
ears or take fire under your feet:
A rush of men Nhurtled against
him, swept him along with them' 40
what he would. separating MIN from
NJ. de La Tour d'AZyr, so oddly met.
Bloodshed there WAS that day IN
Paris. On the Place Vendome a de-
tachment Of Dragons awaited the
crowd out Of which Andre Louis had
slipped. The horsemen swept down
upon the mob, dispersed 1t.
/ The victims were taken up ana
/ borne thence, and anon gst them was
des Amis, himself-lke al!
Fwho lived by the sword-an ardent
/ upholder of the ~noblesse, trampled
10 death under hoofs of foreign
horsemen launched by the noblesse
and led by a nobleman.
To Andre Louis four men OF the
people brought that broken body OF
one of the earliest victims or the
Revolution that was now Launched
II earnest.
CHAPTER III
The ferment of Paris which dur
ing the two following days, re-