The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-14

ment OF Tours found it easy enough to
improvise projects and generals; but
they cannot improvise q police. That is
where our force lies. They are always
Obliged to como back to US. They made
me very fair offer, and when they
knew that l had been at Twickenham, at
Baden, and at Woodnor,on, to keep an
eye on the Orleans princes, they said TO
me! me: That IS capital, We know that
| where in one Of the provincial armies.
! Try to find him." So went to seek the
| Prince de Joinville. 1t seemed 10 me
odd to be doing the same business for
the public rs had been doing for the
empire for ten years. All! old fellow,
We get to be philosophers after fifteen
years Of political police. The empire
sent US to run after the Orleans princes.
The republic sent US to run after the Or
leans princes. The more it changes, you
see; the more it IS still the same thing.
We caught the Prince de Joinvile at
last. 1t was in the army Of the Loire
that he was fighting against the Prussians.
| We kent him prisoner NJ the prefecture
at LIE Mans for five days, and then it
was who accompanied him to Saint
Nlalo, when lie took the boat for Eng
land. The fact is that our business is
not monotonou@ When think, for in
stance, that who am here talking to
you in the garden Of the Eoulc Noire-l
arrested, January -, 1871, the Prince
de } ,inville, at lie Mans. and. the 18th
OF July the same year, the painter Cour
bet, 1T Paris, hidden in cupboard;
when think that l presented my re-
spccts to the Emperor Napoleon, ut
Chiselhurst. on January IS, 1872, and to
the Comte de Chanbord, at Antwerp,
on the 9th Of February tol!owing''-
| "You have Spoken TO the Emperor
and to the Comte lie Chambord?"
| AS am speaking to you, Maroon.
At Chiselhurst il WAS nothing to boast
apont; you left your namc and address
| with the gate keeper, and the following
day you received letter ofautlience.
had arranged for myself nice little
Bonapartist story: INV grandfather,
captain in the Imperial Guard, killed at
Waterloo, etc. We we're received one
| Sunday, after mass, In a patch Of ten or
! twelve. We all entered together little
blue saloon Oh TIE ground floor, and
whom did | see at the Emperor's side?
Our former chief, Petri. Then when
my turn came to say Il few words I made
| up phrase about the state of Paris,
where there was neither security nor
toio0' !o"ucu '''.'' e'oi oouy 1e!iIttetl
| the empire and the administration OF
! Monsieur Pietri. The emperor smiled
as was going out. Monsieur Pietri
came and shook me by the hand, and
said to nc that had spoken like good
Irenchman.
NY campaign at Antwerp was more
| difficult. They had sent for me at the
Prefecture and had told me to 90 to
Antwerp and see what was going on
| there: asked permission to fix my
own day and hour Of departure, and to
! be allowed 10 act as thought proper.
They gave me the authorization, and it
was agreed that there should be no
! questions asked about my expenses.
| Five or six persons were sent to Ant
werp. l allowed my comrades to start,
and | set off on February 22d. The
pilgrimage to Antwerp was then at it's
prime. l arrived in good time at the
Northern Railway station. I examined
the passengers as they came in, l said
TO myself: The train starts at seven in
the morning and arrives at Antwerp at
three in the afternoon. I must choose
| my compartment carefully, get into con.
versation with my fellow passc ngers,
| and have some sponsors when l arrive
at Antwerp. For that 1 have eight
hours. 1t is more than enough
II was, as you may imagine, ire
+! proachably dressed. l had taken with
! me, as my valet, Versac; you know YER
sac, whom l found at Tours. We are
great friends now, and always work to-
gether. He is clever fellow, but he
| prefers minor roles, where there is no
| responsibility. lie was, too, we'll repaid
for his journey. He fell in with charm
ing little Legitimist chambermaid, and
| she told him heaps Of things about one
OF the greatest houses in the Faubourg
Saint German. Versac is handsome
man, he won her affection, and he found
her when he returned to Paris, and so
we have good door open there.
AT the station I saw an old gentle
man with lady Of some thirty years Of
looked at them. l said to myself:
That is my affair." and got into their
compartment. l was not mistaken,
They were going to visit the king-once
in the train, you know, we said not the
| Connie de Chambord, but the king!
At the station of I.uzarcles we ex-
| changed our names and titles. The old
gentleman was named the Marquis de
! Boustasson. l called myself the Baron
de Martonne de Lustrac.. Besides my
Bonapartist story | have iegitinist
story, which is connected very adroitIy
and in a very complicated manner with
two names Of extinct families. At Creil
| learnt the name Of the young woman.
She was the daughter of the Old marquis
and widow of the Comte de Ia Ribailiere
Between Creil and Compiegne the old
marquis told me his history. Between
| Compiegne and Teryniers l related to
him mine. was rrenchman from be.
I H1
the war with the volunteers Of Montevi-
tasted at the same table, the
myself. At Antwrep we put at the same
hotel, and in the evening Versac took
GU: two requests for an audience to the
Comte de Blacas at the Hotel Saint
Antoine. The marquis in his letter had
spoken Of me, and in mine mad spok-
ell OF him. l was no lonyer alone.
had sponsor! a marquis, with long
sllvery hair, and Il majestic and venera.
bic air. In short, assure You, the best
there was in the train.
The following day we were received
all three of US, at the Hotel Saint An:
tome, in series of'twenty to twenty.
five persons. We were introduced in
patches. as at Chiselhurst. When the
king entered, there Mas great emotion
the old marquis, especially, was rs il be
had been cru she'd. Tic fell on his knees
and they had all the trouble in the
world to raise him up. He wanted tc
kiss the kings hand. He began to ram.
bic in his talk, to say that now ne could
die, etc. We brought him back
to the hotel where we had
put up. He took to his bed. and l and
the countess passed the evening will
him: Eight or ten persons who were in
our batch came to ask alter the health
OF the old marquis. The next day We
returned all the visits we had received
| remained at Antwerp until the depart
ure Of the king, and saw great man.
people. | returned with a report and
notes which did me much honor. AnC
if had little fatuity, might even ado
that the countess had way of leaning
on my arm and looking at me sidewayi
when we went to see the pictures in the
museum at Antwerp Alb, l might
perhaps, have made very fine mar
riagew