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I RESUME For four year Marie Antoi nette has .been wife in name only of Louis August, Dauphin of Franc.-For four years i she hoc been the victim Of Court intrigue. Du Barry, the King's Favorite, usee Marie' ehildless note to undermine her position in Court, The Duke VOrleane, du Barry's enemy, plays Marie against the Favorite for his Own gain, urging the Dauphine to extravagance and escapade, when Marie openly insults du Barry, the-King decrees that her marriage shall be annulled and she will be sent back to Austria. In her hour of disgrace, the Duke refuses to help her. She finds a friend in Count For sen, young Swedish nobleman visiting Court. Be tells her he has always loved her; she, in turn, falls in love with him. Bhe is now happy tlMt she will never be Queen. But the King dies before the annulment decree is signed. The Dauphin confesses that he loves her now and wants her for his wife in reality. Marie can only accept her destiny she must be Queen of France. Oopyrifht ins tj Loew be. Chapter Three A LASfFAREWELL necklace had been purchased by the Prince de Rohan who, duped by the Duke'a accomplices, thought ne was nuying it lor tne tjueen. wnen tne-wnoie, wretcnea anair came to light, Marie Antoinette insisted upon a public trial; ao sure waa she that her enemies would oe confounded and her innocence declared. Bhe was wrong. Almost from the onset of the trial she realized its futility. The Duke threw his weight toward de Rohan's ac qultal. Marie Antoinette lost the trial, and with It was destroyed the last vestige of restraint which held back public opinion. The cries of "Justice is done! De Rohan Is innocent!" mounted to the roar and thunder of the Marseillaise. Ten thousand men and women, their hate fanned to fever pitch, marched upon Versailles and made the King, the Queen, their children and the Princesse de Lam balle, Marie's still loyal friend, their prisoners. Only the quick action of the Paris Citizens' Com mittee saved their lives. The Palace of Versailles became the royal prison. Marie Antoinette waited hopelessly for some sign of aid from Austria. None came. None ever would, she knew at last. The fear of assassination was constant- He had further arranged for Toulan, the guard who had sum moned her to him, to permit the family's escape from the Palace. A hired coach would take them to Varennes under his own escort. At Varennes a troup of Hussars, loyal to the King, would conduct them over the border. "Everything is planned for the night of June 20th," he concluded. The days dragged endlessly until the twentieth of June. For the hundredth time she conferred with her husband about the details of Fersen's .plan. A thousand pitfalls endangered them. But Fate was kind, The night of the twentieth found Marie Antoinette, the King, their children and the Princesse de Lamballe driving madly toward Varennes. At dawn they reached th. cross roads and Fersen took his leave; it was unsafe for him to continue further. He stressed his final direc tions. The Hussars awaited them at Varennes. Within a few hours they Would be safely over the border. He wished them Godspeed and farewell. Once more the carriage con tinued on its way. They were with in sight of their destination when Fate marked them for doom. A 8 Shortly after the coronation which made Louis August King and herself Queen of France, Marie Antoinette sought a rendezvous with the man she loved. She plead ed with Fersen for their right to happiness; she begged him to for get she was Queen and to remem ber only that she was the woman who loved him whom he loved. "My mad, reckless, adorable dar ling!'1 he cried In anguish. "If I could help you be Queen, I would Rive my life to serve you. But your happiness lies In the love of your people. Nothing must stand be tween you and that neither your heart nor mine. If I stayed " ho gestured hopelessly. "Marie! I 'cannot ahare your destiny except to your own hurt! Tou must live openly -a- without fear without reproach in sight of all " ." "What are you saying?" she cried in dismay. "I must go away," he answered aadly. For a moment she thought her 'heart must break and fall at his feet "Shall X never see you .again?" 'he whispered. "If you need me, I shall be there," he promised. "I shall always need you!" she : cried passionately. But in the end she was forced to accept the wisdom of his course. They bade each other a heart broken farewell. The memory of his love sustain ed hex during the ten stormy years fthat followed. Her position in France waa doubly dangerous by reason of the constant Intrigue against her fermented by the Duke XrOrleana and because her hus band's inadequacy to the demands or me time, placed in her bands 'the reins of State. As the years rolled on she made her peace with life. If, as Queen of France, she despaired of the 'fact that Louis waa denied the calibre of Kings, as his wife, she 'learned to regard him with kindly affection. He lavished the goodness 'and simplicity of his nature upon bar and upon their two children. Perhaps, had her enemies at .Court been less powerful she night have won back the love of jthe toenoh people the lor lost her because they could not forgot nor wira extravagance as uaupbiat nor forgive? the escapades which (had kept them brat and broken to the wheel of starvation. This was the hate which the ThO TyOrlaaaa, by letters, poems. street singers and his popularity -mu moo, xanaea into a con suming flame against the Queen. Eventually he found way for her complete undoing. Through intri- Se he had credited to the Queen purchase of a diamond neck lace worth a King's ransom. The people, starving for bread, rose up hv rage, against her. Actually the "Take me m your arms h ; as you did that other ' dawn." ly present. One day, as she brooded in her boudoir, a tapping at the secret aide panel of the room, startled her into action. With trembling fingers she slid open the small door. A soldier of the Guard saluted her and motioned her to silence. "Will you follow me, Madame," he whispered and thrust something into her hand. "I was to give you this " She looked into her palm and her heart missed a beat There lay the ring she had given Count Fersen ten years before. "Is it is it he?" she wept The soldier nodded gravely and pointed below. With a surge of confidence and hope, she swept past him and descended the short flight of stairs. She peered through the darkness, her eyes finding at last the dim figure of a man. "Count Fersen?" she asked faintly. He raised his face and her heart trembled. It was he! Older, grave and tense but he had come! He kissed the hand she extended. "You've not forgotten,'' she whis pered. "But you are risking your life! We're prisoners here. We're not permitted friends." "Tou have friends who are glad to risk their Hves, Madame. I came to beg you to lay a plan of escape before the Xing. Hurriedly he unfolded his plan. He bad secured false passports made out for a Madame de Korff, her two children, a governess and a lackey. Princesse de Lamballe would be Madame de Korff, the Queen the governess and the King the lackey in order to forestall suspicion. He handed her an en velope. "Here are written the details. Memorize them well and destroy the plans." he cautioned. blacksmith tyho had helped them change their horses recognized the King. The morning was still young when the Queen, the King, their children and the Princesse were taken under guard to the Prison de La Force. Immediately upon their arrival at prison the family was separated. The mobs killed Princesse de Lam balle at once. The King was placed In a cell by himself; Marie An toinette, her son and daughter were taken to another. Daily the roll of drums, the howls of the populace, the groan of the guillo tine and the dull thud of heads falling in its grisly basket, cele brated the revolution. In Paris, the Commune met to decide the fate of the royal pris ers. "Death!" shouted Robspierre. "Death!" demanded Marat "Life Imprisonment!" pleaded La Rue. An ominous silence awaited the fourth and deciding vote. "Citizen Orleans, your vote!" commanded the President. The Duke D'Orleans rose slow ly from his seat, conscious that all eyes were turned in hia direction. The crowd waited in horrified sil ence. Would he condemn his kins man? Something in Ms wonted suavity forsook him. He braced himself to speak. "Death!" he shouted. That night the guards announced that the King would dine with his family. The little Dauphin and his sister were overjoyed at seeing their father again. The evening passea nappuy with kindness and devotion between Marie and her nusoand. The Dauphin broke the arm of his toy soldier and asked his father to mend it for him. Louts promised to do so and send It back in the morning. "Will you bring it back?" asked ina cnnn Louis shook his head. With a sudden stab of pain, Marie An toinette realized that morning would find her husband on the guillotine. His death left her crushed and bewildered but a greater trial still awaited her. Guards burst into her cell and took away her son. She begged and pleaded for the child, but her tears and prayers met with stony silence, when he had gone she .fell to a chair, frozen, stupefied with grief. Something akin to madness filled her. All she had been through was as noth ing. This broke her soul. Soon enough she learned why they had taken the little Dauphin. She was brought to trial. Her son mouthed the phrases they had taught him and which they forced him to epeak under torture. His accusation rang throughout the court echoed through the streets of Paris dooming his mother on a vicious charge. On his testi mony she was condemned. Marie Antoinette was brought back to the dim cell where she was to await her doom. Day after day, she sat there alone, forgot ten, her broken mind shutting out the tragedy and final horror of her trial. In all the world only one man remembered ner. Count Fersen worked day and night, through channels high and low, to get some word to her. At last, with the help of the Governor he was granted a moment of fare well on the morning of her execu tion. Just before the first light of dawn he was ushered into the dark corridor leading to the Queen's cell. Marie Antoinette sat on a little bed. She lifted her hand to shield her eyes from the unac customed light as the bolts were shot and the door was opened. "Is it time?" she asked dully. There was no answer to her question. Her brows contracted in a frown and she peered through the gloom at Fersen. His heart broke as his eyes, piercing the shadow, took in the whole pitiful picture of her thin face, sunken cheeks, loosely knotted white hair. He moved toward her and she looked at him wonderingly. She put out her hand and touched his bowed head. "It is you!" she murmured. Her words came painfully. "You must forgive me. It's dark here, always. My sight has grown dim.'' He tried to answer her but couldn't, i "You mustn't think I've for gotten," she mused. "It's only that I feel so little now. So little.'' Her words trailed into silence as she drew back into some inner dark ness. "He was so small sitting i.i that big chair," she whispered, "speaking the lies they taught him " "He will know when he's older," Fersen comforted. She looked into his drawn, an guished face. "There are tears in your eyes," she exclaimed. "I have no tears." She sighed. "I shall ba a little afraid, perhaps, when I see " she broke off. "It's auick, they say " He turned away, unable to bear more. She placed her hand upon him. "Take me In your arms as you did that other dawn," sho whispered. "When it's over," she murmui-od, "don't grieve. Say to yourself she Is asleep; she was tired ti.jd and now she is at rest." The roll of muffled drums ac.i ed from afar. The time had co.e. As day dawned, the wretched knacker's cart rumbled over the streets to the steady beat of Chd drum and the stifled murmur cl the awed mobs. Her hands tied behind her, her face expression less, her eyes closed, Marie An toinette rode to her doom. She opened her eyes for a ia( glimpse of Paris, city of her tri umphs, her follies, her tragedy. 3hi looked toward the Tuillerles where her children had played. The bteady roll of the drums beat In upon net consciousness. With tired steps, she mounted the guillotine. The pale October sun a h o a a through the sky. For a moment the knife glittered in its light. Then it crashed downward and took Marie Antoinette to her ;3t. THE END. Mntort Hi IT A A WIIODS? 7 1.' How many countries nave naa wan or revolts in the last twenty , years? 2.- What is the cost of the raw N'coitoiTm a 12.00 shirt? r,Z7 Mow old is Secretary, Hull T --4." Who" - is . the.White House" spokesman T- 6. 'Qoea the wage-hour law, which . goes into effect October 24, , affect agricultural, workers t n6. Did the British and French par liaments approve the Munich agree ment T ' 7. Has the American Labor Party announced candidates in New York? 8. - Have the taxable profits of cor porationa declined ? - . " - 9. How does the price , of Jffheat compare with the price in the spring ' of 1937? :, . .v ' , 10. What are the resources of the i ; Chase National Bank, of New York? f V THE ANSWERS ' " 1 Forty-five.' ! 2. About forty cents.;- 3. '67 years. "," , " '. '4. A term sometimes employed by Presidents to give their views anony- -ously. 4 .J. ' .l 5. No, ' 2 - 6. Yes. 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