The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-07-12
Published by Special Arrangements With The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.
Incorporated
Copyright: 1884: BY RAFAEL SABATIN1

The detention OF LIE Camus.. however.
the Prince Of Condo had been goaded
by the recent prosecutions. Whilst is
suing a call to arms ON the one hand,
On the other he was secretly prepar-
ing an indictment of the Guises with
the intention of bringing them to trial
by the Estates for usurpation Of the
royal power, for pillage, population and
conspiracy.
OF these threatening measures the
Guises had evidence in the following
August, when they captured Condos
secretary, La Sagne, with letters upon
him which showed how very diligently
the armed rising was being organized.
At the time the elections to the
States General, convOked for December,
were fiercely agitating the country.
The Guises, maSsing armed forces in
Orleans, where the States we're to be
held, would have yielded to the demand
trolling the issue. But the discovery
of Condos activities showed them that
prompt measures were necessary if this
opposition were to be stlfled, and
these prompt measures they took in
their own high-handed fashion.
In the name of their luxurious puppet
Francis II they sent a summon to the
King of Navarro to bring his brother
to answer a charge of treason. Antoine
tween obedience and open revolt, and
warned that in the event of the latter
he would be taken in the rear of Phillip
II of Spain with the troops of Spanish
Navarro.
The high-spirited Condo urged him
to obey, since as a Prince of the Blood,
and counting upon trial by his peers,
he had no anxieties touching the issue.
In this, however, he reckoned without
of the Guises. Arrested Immediately
on arrival at Orleans, his was
judged by a commission which the
GuiseS themselves appointed. It was in
vain that the intrepid hunchback re-
fused to plead before a tribunal which
he rightly denounced as incompetent
to judge him. He was found guilty of
To Catherine that sentence revealed
how completely, through their ascend
ency over the in~vertebrate King, the
Guises held France in the grip of their
mighty t%entacles. 1t quenched her
last hope.
Catherine did not even attempt to
appeal to her son on Condos behalf.
For her the situation was the same as
when she had allowed lie Camus to be
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behalf would merely be to betray her.
self to the vengeance Of the Guises.
i, And her wretched son. she knew, would
no more bestir himself to save her
than he bestirred himself to save
! Condo.
She was doomed, it seemed, either to
Punishment or to the perpetuation of
her humiliating nullity.
And then, abruptly, the face of af-
fairs was completely changed.
At vespers, in the Church of the
Jacobins, on Sunday the 18th of No
vember. the sickly young King fell into
a syncope. On recovering consciousness
in his own apartments in the Palace of
the Bailliage, he complained dolefully of
a violent pain in the left ear. He was
in a raging fever, and whilst some doc
tors and surgeons diagnosed an alb
scess and others a tumor, all were
agreed that be it one of the other, there
was no hope of saving his Majesty's
life.
Momentarily the Guises stood aghast,
for it seemed to them that in the doom
of Francis they heard the doom of their
own dominion. The Duke of Orleans
would succeed to the throne; and the
Duke of Orleans being 10 years old, q