WITH CONTEMPT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 225, 10 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

WITH CONTEMPT.

HOW DIDIER. TRKATKI) A TRAITOR.

Alexandre Dumas coinribuUil to thi 'Curieux" mi iiiu-i'doic told hi in liv Henri Didier, who was a d<upty under the Second Empire. Didier's father was s<-<r< buy to the Ministry of the Interior at the time when the Du'-huss de Herri was arrested at Nantes at the end of her attempt to rouse the country against Louis Philippe and in favour of her sou. tlie Count de Chamborl. The traitor Deutz agreed to sell to the Government the set-ret <,f her hid-ing-plate for .500,01)0 francs, and it was the elder Didier's duty to pay the scoundrel for bis dirty work. He tooK his son Henri into the office and said:

•' Look well now at what parses, and never forget it. Yon will learn what a. traitor is, and tiie method of paying him."

Deutz was then brought into the rrom where M. Didier was sfnding behind his desk, on which were placed two packets, each of which contained 2">0,00O francs.

As Deutz nce.rcd the desk M. Didier made a sign to him to stop. Then, taking a <paii of tongs, he extended the packets, one after the other, into the hands open to receive them. Not a word was effected, M. Didier pointed to the door.