Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-07-06

Published b. Special Arranzements with N
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate
Incorporated
ccpyrisht: 1884; By RAFAEL sABATnu
PART TWO
The detention Of lie Camus. however
did not check the activities into which
the Prince Of Condo had been goadet
ny the recent prosecutions. Whilst is
suing q call to axnS on the one hand
On the other he was secretly prepar-
ing an indictment OF the GgliseS with
the intention Of bringing them to trial
BY the Estates for uSurpatzon Of the
royal power, for pillage, peculation and
conspiracy.
OF these threatening measures the
Guises had evidence Ia the following
August, when they captured Conde'E
secretary, La Sagne, with letters upon
him which showed how very diligently
the armed rising was being organized.
At the time the elections 70 the
States General, conVoked for December,
were fiercely agitating the country.
The Guises, massing armed forces In
Orleans. where the States were TO be
held, would have yielded 10 the demand
had they not been confident Of con-
trolling the issue. But the discovery
Of Condos activities showed them that
opposition we're TO be stlfled, and
these prompt measures they took In
their own high-handed fashion.
In the name Of their 1uxoEious puppet
Francis II they sent summon to the
King Of Navarro to bring his brother
to answer a charge Of treason. Antoine
de Bourbon was given to choose be-
tween obedience and open revolt, and
warned that in the event Of the latter
he would be taken in the rear Of Phillip
III Of Spain with the troops Of Spanish
Navarro.
The hfgh-spirited Condo urged him
to obey, since as q Prince Of the Blood,
and counting upon trial by his peers,
he had no anxieties touching the issue.
In this however, he reckOned without
the unscrupuious and tyrannical craft
Of the Guises. Arrested Immediately
on arrival at Orleans. his cause was
judged by q commission which the
Guises themselves appointed. It was in I
vain that the intrepid hunchback re- /
fused to plead before q tribunal which |
he rightly denounced as incompetent |
to judge him. He was found guilty Of
less majestic and sentenced to death.
To Catherine that sentence revealed !
how completely, through their ascend I
ency over the invertehrate King, the 4
Guises held France In the grip Of their |
mighty tentacles. 1t quenched her
asst 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
AIKEN. To raise her voice on Condos
,ehah would merely be to betray her
elf to the vengeance Of the GuiSeS.
And her wretched son. she knew, would
10 more bestir himself to save her
han he bestirred himself to save
Jonde.
She was doomed, it seemed, either TO
,anishment or to the perpetuation Of
Ter humiliating nullfty.
And then, abruptly, the face OF az
airs was completely changed.
At veSpers, in the Church Of the
Iacobins, on Sunday the 18th of No
ember, the sickly young King fell into
syncope. On recovering consciousness
q his own apartments IN the Palace OF
he Bailliage, he complained dolefully Of
violent pain in the left ear. He was
! a raging fever, and whilst some doc
0rs and surgeons diagnosed an abb
cess and others a tumor, all were
greed that be it one Of the other. there
as no hope Of saving his Maiesty's
fe
Momentarily the Guises stood aghast,
u it seemed to them that IN the doom
Francis they heard the doom Of their
WA dominion. The Duke Of Orleans
ould succeed TO the throne; and the
luke Of Orleans being 10 years old,