The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-02-22

police. Lunatics, pure lunatics. As /
was supposed to have q certain merit, I
was b post of secretary to q police
commissioner who had been newly ap-
pointed, and who could not perform his
duties without assistance. l refused. I
did not like ~sedenRry parts. I said to
myself: Some day or other the secret
police will be Y~eorganized, and l shall
pany of sharpshooters. Fortwo months
we best about in the fores. of Orleans,
and then went to Tours { recruit. II
was about the middle sfNovember. The
first man I met in Tours, in the Rue
Royale, vas that Big Versac. who, be-
fore the 4th of September, was in the
brigade of the Chateau, and who took
me at ones to the headquarters of the
Surete.Generale He told me, as we
were going along, that Monsieur Gam
some idea Of g 0an Mao that "a
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 improyise a police. That is
where u 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
Baden, II at Woodnorton, to keep an
eye on the Orleans princes, they said to
me: That is capital. We know that
the Prince de Joinville is hiding m
where in one of the provincial armies.
Try to find him." So | went to seek the
Prince de Joinville. 1t seemed to me
odd to be doing the same business for
the public as / had been doing for the
empire for ten years. All! old fellow,
Wa get to be philosophers after fifteen
years Of political police. The empire
sent us to u after the Orleans princes.
The republic sent US to run after the Or
leans princes. The more it changes, you
see, the it Is still the same thing.
We caught the Prince de Joinville at
last. 1t was in the army of the Loire
that he was fighting against the P~russians.
We Kept him prisoner at the prefecture
at LIE Mans for five days, and then it
was l who accompanied him to Saint
Malo, when he took the boat for Eng.
land. The fact is that our business is
not monotonous. When l think. for in
stance, that | who am here talking to
you IN the garden of the Boule Noire-I
arrested, January l3, 1871, the Prince
de Joinyille, at LIE Mans, and. the 18th
Of July the same year, the painter Cour.
bet, at Paris, hidden in a cupboard:
when l think that I presented my re-
spects to the Emperor Napoleon, at
Chiselhurst. on January l8, 1872, and to
the Comte de C%hambord, at Antwerp,
on the oath Of February following
You have spoken to the Emperor
and to the Comte de Chambord?"
"Asl am speaking to you, Marcou.
AT Chiselhurst it was nothing to boast
about; you left your name and address
With the gate keeper, and the following
day you received a letter ofaudience. I
had arranged for myself a nice little
Bonapartist story: My grandfather,
captain in the Imperial Guard, killed at
Waterloo etc. We we're received one
Sunday, after mass, IN q palch of ten or
twelve. We all entered together a little
blue saloon on the ground floor, and
whom did I see at the Emperor's side?
Our former chief. Pietri. Then when
my turn came to say a few words l made
up a phrase about the state of Paris,
where there was neither security nor
police. Ialded that everybody regretted
the empire and the administration of
Monsieur Pietri. The mperor smiled
as l was going out. Monsieur Pietri
came and shook me by the hand, and
said TO mesthat l had spoken like a good
Frenchman.
My campaign at Antwerp was more
difficult. Thew had sent for me at the
Prefecture aud had told me to go TO
Antwerp and see what was gong on
there. [ asked permission to fix my
own day and hour Of departure, and to
be allowed to act az | thought proper.
They gave me the authorization, and it
was agreed that there should be no
questions asked about my expenses.
or six persons we're sent to Ant
| allowed my comrades to start,
set off on Fe bruary 22d. The
pilgrimage to Antwerp was then Mt its
prime. | arrived in good time at the
Railway station. I examined
the passengers as they came in, l said
to myself: The train starts at sever in
the morning and arrives at Antwerp at
three IN the afternoon. | must choose
my compartment carefully, gatinto con.
v%ersation with my fellow asse myers,
have some sponsors when | arrive
at Antwerp. For that l have eight
hours. 1t is o than enough
was, as you may imagine, ire
proachably dressed. ] had taken with
me, as my valet. Versac; you know Yer
sac, whom I found at Tours. We are
great friends now, and always work to-
He is a clever fellow, but he
prefers minor roles, where there is no
responsibility. He was, too, well repaid
for his journey. He tellin with q 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 a handsome
man, he won her affection, and he Joutid
her when. he returned to Paris, and so
We have q good door open there.
AT the station / saw an old gentle-
man with a lady of some thirty years of
age, not pretty, but very agreeable. /
looked at them. / said to myself:
That is my affair and l got into their
compartment. / was moi mistaken,
They We're going to visit the king-once
N b train, you know, we said not the
Comte de Chambord. but the king!
At the station of Luzarches 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 I have a legitimist
story, which is connected very adroitly
and in a very complicated manner with
two names of extinct families. At Creil
! learnt the name of the young
She was the daughter of the old marquis
and widow of the Comte de la Riballiere.
between Creil and Compiegne the old
marquis told me his history. Between
Compiegne and Tergniers I related to
him mine. l was a Frenchman from be.
yond the seas, who had come over Tor
the war with the volunteers of Montevi-
dec. at Tergniers We break
tasted at the same table, the
marquis, the countess, and
myself. AT Antwerp we put 1.-THE satne
hotel, and in the evening Yarsac took