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scemed to partake of the feverish agttation of his blood. In a few hours he had leit Versailles, Chartes, T.e Mans, Ta IFleche behind him They were nearing Angers, when suddenlv, with a terrible crash, the carriage hecled over on its side, and he fell. - He rose hurt and bleeding, separated with his sabre the traces which bound onc of the horses, and, [caping on s back, reached the Ilk\L post ; and, taking a fresh horse, rapidly continued his course.

And now he has crossed Angers, he per- ceives Nigrande, reaches \(U l(lL, PAsses Ancenis ;o his horse streams with foam and

blood. He gains Saint - Donaticn, then Nantes—Nantes, which encloses his life, his happiness T Some scconds after he

passes the gates, hie 1s in the town, he reins 1 hiz horse betore the prison of Bouffays,

He has armived. What matters all their troubles now 2 He calls—

• Blanche, Blanche !

caoler appears and replics— “Two carts have just Iefu the }mmn

\mdcmohdlc, de Beaulicu was in the first.

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M AGAZTINT.

With a curse upon his lips, Marceau springs to the ground, and rushes with the husthng crowd tewards the great \quam He comes up with thie last of the two carts onc ol the prisoners inside recognises Lim. [ 1s Tinguy.

“Save her! osave her! [ have Faled

Marccau pushes on through the crowd ; they hustle him, they press around him, but” he hurls then out of his path. 1lc arrives upon the place of exccution. Before him 1= the scaffold. e flourishes aloft the \me of paper, Ll\ll](’—

‘A pardon b a ])mlun e

AU that mstant the executioner, scizing by its long, fair hair the head of a voung airl, held it up before the terrified crowd.

Suddenly from the midst of that silent crowd aoery was heard—a cry of anguish, inwhich there seetmed to have been (mthuul all the forces of human agony. I\Ln(,um had recognised between the teeth of this uplifted head the red rose which he had grven to his young bride.

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