The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15

set at liberty q quarter of an hou
afterward, and You can finish your eve
/ ming at Vauxhaii or at the Elyset
MontmartEe. De y0a understand
| Tes2 Aud you viii Do reasonable
That ia right. Now 90 with these gentle
men: we viii wait tec ycr n the Gssc
den"
AgIae and the three policemen
crossed the boulevard and entered the
| ball. Maroon and Dibrisart followed
then, passed through the room, ant
| went and sat on a bench at one end o
the garden. The evening vas cool, anC
| the garden was deserted.
= y 4 = Il
II can offer you a fine cigar" sale
DubrisarU to MarCOu; 81 bought three
or four excellent boxes at Antwerp
"Ah! you have been at Antwerp"
Eyes, three weeks ago for the Comte
de Chamborsl."
"Do you travel much?"
"Since the 18th of December | am al
ways on the move"
"You did not stay in Paris during
the siege?"
mo; on September 9Th l already saw
what the government of the national de-
Tense was worth. Those gentlemen had
the idea of keeping Paris without secret
police. LunatiCs, pure lunatlcs. AS |
was supposed to have a certain merit, !
was the post of secretary to q police
commissioner who had been newly APP
pointed, and who could not perform his
duties without assistance. l refused. !
did not like sedentary parts. | said to
myself: Some day or other the secret
police will be Ieorganized, and ! shall
be wanted' l left Paris with a COM
pany of sharpshooters. Fortwo months
we beat about in the fores: Of Orleans,
and then went to Tours to recruit. II
about the middle Of November. The
first man | met in Gours, in the Rue
Royale, was that Big Nersac, who, be-
fore the 4th oS September, was in the
brigade Of the Chateau, and rho TOOK
me at once to the headquarters of the
Surete. Generate. He told me, as we
were going along, that Monsieur Gam
beta was a man who had
some idea of government; that
since his arrival they were trying to re-
organize a secret police, but that they
were in great difficulties. The govern
ment of Tours found it easy enough to
improvise projects and generals; but
they cannot improvise a police. That is
our force lies. They are always
obliged to come back to us. They made
me a very fair offer, and when they
knew that | had been at Twickenham, at
and at Woodnorton, to keep an
eye on the Orleans princes, they said 10
me-: THAT is capital. We know that
the Prince de Joinville is hiding some
-, ~ - Ana yor1vsvNaSol onpoSne
Try to find him." So l went to seek the
Prince de Joinyille. 1t seemed to me
odd to be doing the same business for
he public as / 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
princes. The more it changes, you
lee, the more it 10 still the same thing.
We caught the Prince de Joinville at
asst. 1t was in the army Of the Loire
hat he was fighting against the Prussians..
We kept him prisoner at the prefecture
It lie Mans for five days, and then it
vas / who accompanied him to Saint
Malo, when he took the boat for Eng
and. The fact is that our business is
lot monotonous. When / think, for in
that I who am here talking to
'ou in the garden of the Boule Noire-l
crested, January Is, 1871, the Prince
Joinville, at lie Mans, and. the 18th
4 July the same year, the painter Cour.
at Paris, hidden in a cupboard;
vhen / think that / presented my re-
poets to the Emperor Napoleon, at
'hiselhurst. on January Is, 1872, and to
be Comte de Chambord, at Antwerp, |
the oath of February following'-
"You have spoken 10 the Emperor
nd to the Comte de Chambord?"
"As / am speaking to you, Maroon. |
It Chiselhurst it was nothing to boast
bout; you left your name and address
nth the gate-keeper, and the following
you received a letter ofaudience. /
ad arranged for myself a nice little
story: My grandfather,
In the Imperial Guard, killed at
Vaterloo,' etc. We were received one
unday, after mass, IN q patch of ten or
We all entered together a little
lue saloon on the ground floor, and
1hom did / see at the Emperor's side2
'ur former chief, Pietri. Then when
nv turn came to say q few words / made
d q phrase about the state of Paris,
here there was neither security nor
Iadded that everybody regretted
he empire and the administration Of
forsieur Pietri. The emperor smiled
s was going out. Monsieur Pietri
anne and shook me by the hand, and
aid to me that ! had spoken like a good
Frenchman.
"My 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 gong on
here. / asked permission to fix my
,wn day and hour Of departure, ard to
be allowed TO act al 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 we're sent to AMT
werp. / allowed my comrades to start
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