. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ou briefly the strange history f this State prisoner. I HI MAN OF THE IKON MASK. ing the reign of that voluptuous old monarch, Louis XIV. of France, there appeared on one of the Marguerite Islands, in the iterranean, a prisoner of State closely guarded, and entrusted the especial care of a French governmental officer, De Saint Mars. •• Although confined in this obscure spot in the sea, where but littk n or heard >ave a distant sail and the dashing of waters, he one a marked man among the few who chanced to meet him, and the c
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ou briefly the strange history f this State prisoner. I HI MAN OF THE IKON MASK. ing the reign of that voluptuous old monarch, Louis XIV. of France, there appeared on one of the Marguerite Islands, in the iterranean, a prisoner of State closely guarded, and entrusted the especial care of a French governmental officer, De Saint Mars. •• Although confined in this obscure spot in the sea, where but littk n or heard >ave a distant sail and the dashing of waters, he one a marked man among the few who chanced to meet him, and the circumstance of his concealment was in danger of being noised abroad. He was consequently removed to Paris, and immured in the ; stile. f rom the time that he began to attract attention on the island inthe Mediterranean to the (lose of his protracted life, no one but hi-appointed attendants is known to have seen his face. I enveloped in a black-velvet mask, confined b) and so arranged that he could not reveal his feature. without immediate MAX OF THE IRON MASK. PARIS. 265 His guardian, De Saint Mars, had been instructed by a royalorder, or by an order from certain of the kings favorites, to take hislife immediately, should he attempt to reveal his identity. During his confinement on the Marguerite island, De Saint Marsate and slept in the same room with him, and was always provided withweapons with which to despatch him, should he attempt to discoverthe secret of his history. If report is true, De Saint Mars might wellexercise caution, for it is asserted that he was to forfeit his own life ifby any want of watchfulness he allowed the prisoner to reveal hisidentity. The prisoner himself seemed anxious to make the forbidden dis-covery. He once wrote a word on some linen, and succeeded in com-municating what he wished to an individual not in the secret of themystery. But the ruse was discovered, and the person that receivedthe linen died suddenly, being taken off, i
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