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Show TREATED HIM LIKE LEPER Characteristic French Method of Paying Pay-ing Informer Tor Services That Made Him Forever Infamous. Alexandre Dumas contributed to the Curieux an anecdote told him by Henri Didier, who was a deputy under the Second empire. Didier's father was secretary to the ministry of the interior in-terior at the time when the Duchesse de Berri was arrested at Nantes at the end of her attempt to raise the country against Louis Philippe and in favor of her son, the Count de Chum-bord. Chum-bord. The traitor Deutz agreed to sell to the government the secret of her hiding place for five hundred tbwu-sand tbwu-sand francs, and it was the elder Didier's Di-dier's duty to pay the scoundred for his dirty work. He took bis son Henri into the office and said: "Look well now iit what passes, and never forget it. You will learn what a lache is, and the method of paying him." Deutz was then 1) rough t into the room where Monsieur Didier was standing behind bis desk, on which were placed two packets, each of which contained two hundred and fifty thousand francs. As Deutz neared the desk Monsieur Didier Di-dier made a sign to him to stop. Then, taking a pair of tongs, he extended the packets, one after the other, into the hands open to receive them. Not a word was spoken, and, when the transfer was effected. Monsieur Didier pointed to th door. |