though this comforted, it added to the pain of the Queen,
who feared for the happiness of the future King of France.

The Reign of Terror was at hand. The Revolutionists, fierce and strong
in their murderous frenzy had risen, risen to kill monarchs and
monarchy. Louis Sixteenth was on the throne--therefore Louis Sixteenth
must go; Marie Antoinette was his wife; she had danced, and spent money
like water while they, the people had needed bread, so they said--and
Marie Antoinette must go. Little Louis was heir to the throne--that
throne whose power must be overthrown, and so Louis the Dauphin must
go.

The rulers of France had for generations proved so false to their trust
and to their kingly responsibility that the love of the people had at
last been changed into hate. Louis Fourteenth and Louis Fifteenth had
sinned so deeply against those whom their oath of office bound them to
protect, that now at last there was no feeling but revenge and hatred
in the hearts of the subjects of the King of France, and on the heads
of the reigning sovereigns, Louis Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette fell
the horrors of the Reign of Terror, which was now reaching a point
where only torture and bloodshed could appease the fiends who were
rapidly becoming all-powerful. It was claimed that the taxes collected
from the people for the expenses of war and government were being
misused for the extravagances and frivolities of the royal family. It
was even claimed that the people were starving for bread while the King
and Queen were living in luxury, and this because the fiends of the
revolution had caused all bake-shops to stop baking bread, so that the
cry of starvation might be raised among the people, who could then be
incited to storm the palace and demand bread of the royal family.

The very scum of civilisation, the dregs of the population of France,
were roused in fierce and unjust revolt against the royal family; yes,
in revolt and in power, and on a day of early October, 1789, a howling
mob of frenzied men, women and children swept up the peaceful avenues
of Versailles, shrieking their fiendish cries for vengeance on the
royal family, and then they invaded and took possession of the royal
apartments. Aghast at the outrages committed in the name of the French
people, the King and Queen tried in every way to restore the mob to
peace, but in vain. The leaders of the rebellion demanded the immediate
appearance in Paris, which was the seat of