Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-01

changed the fortunes of the day. The
Austrian cavalry were massed behind a
fringe of wood which effectually con-
cealed their movements from the French.
Suddenly they were seen to emerge from
their shelter and to prepare for a deter
mined charge, to take in flank those bat
tallions which had already reached the
slopes Of the hills. Gen. Neil saw the
danger, and Immediately hurled against
them the Marguerite division of cavalry,
in which De Kalmont's light dragons
charged in the first line.
The shock was terrific! The elements
contributed to swell the frightful storm
of war. Peals of thunder beloved forth
and vivid lightning played over the
CHASTITY sight beneath.
It was after the delivery of the charge
"home" that Col. Valmont suddenly saw
rise before him about dozen hussars in
white, of the Archduke Albrecht's regi-
ment. Led by young Lieutenant, with
fair hair and a budding mustache, they
sabred the French dragons with maniac
al fury, making their way through them
like cannon ball. With one bound of
his horse the Lieutenant was at the Colo
mel. De Valmont saw his sabre fash as
he raised it to cut him down. He had
only time to pull the trigger of his pis-
tOl and the Austrian fell, killed by a
bullet in the forehead.
At the end of the engagement, Colo
mel de ValmOnt, returning to camp,
passed over the scene of the conflict.
The body of the Lieutenant still lay there
on his back. A thin trickle of blood
marked the spot of the bullet wound.
The face of the young officer was as calm
and placid as that of child asleep. De
Valmont gazed at him with profound
emotion. A few yards off some dis
mounted men were guarding Austrian
prisoners, among them was an officer of
Albrecht's Hussars. Pointing to the dead
body, the Colonel asked:
"Sir, can you tell me the name of that
brave fellow?"
Karl Gottfried," was the answer.
One month after the peace of Villa
fraca Eugene de Valmont returned to
Paris with the army of Italy, where he
found the following letter awaiting his
arrival:
MILAN, 9th, August, 1855.
My DEAR OLD FRIEND: You know that
am still at the Military hospital here,
where | shall remain until all our wound
ed are removed. They brought in the
other day several marrauders caught by
our men rifling the dead, and on some OF
them, who tried to escape, they fired.
Among them was an old woman dis
guised as man. A bed was found for
her, as she was on the point of death.
l offered my services to dress her wound,
and judge to my amazement when l
heard her say: "You don't Remembrance,
DIR. Brisac. am La Severina." Under
the Withered features of the woman I
recognized your former acquaintance in
Algiers. By what series of misfortunes
she became to be despoiler Of the dead
L shall not attempt to explain. Enough
to know that before dying she allowed
the priest to communicate part of her
confession, and as have for long thought,
she it was who stole LuCien at Mar
seilles!
After a host of adventures, which
shall tell you later on, poverty COMPEL
ed her to abandon the child at Vienna.
She left it to the charity of the landlord
where she lodged-NO. 20 Rosenstrasse
and never heard ofthe boy after. This
address will give you some trace. Ap-
ply at once to the Austrian Embassy.
Tout tOi.
BRIsAC.
Mad with joy, the Colonel ran to the
embassy and explained the object of his
LHISSIOus tut ~ 1OIGu1S1I dlGOIj WulCn
seemed to him lifetime, Ire lived in a
fever of suspense, and was going to bed
one night when the valet brought him
an official letter, with a large red seal
bearing the Acknowledgements arms.
He read as follows:
MONSIEUR LIE COMPTE: I am instructed
by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to in
form you in answer to your inquiries,
that the child, abandoned in Vienna, at
the address given, on the Both of Septem-
Der, 1916, was adopted by a benevolent
gentleman. He was educated at the
military school of Olmutz, which he left
last year with the rank of a sub-heuten-
ant, posted to S. A. 7. the Archduke
Albrecht's regiment of Hussars, and he
was killed at the battle of Solferino. He
bore the name of his adopted father,
Karl Gottfried.
One hour afterward his valet entered
the COlOnel's room and found him sit
ting in his chair. His face was deadly
white. His eyes, dilated and immova-
BILE, were fixed upon the fatal letter.
The servant touched him lightly on
the shoulder, and his master dropped
motionless on the floor.
He was dead.-LOnd0R Society.