The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09

Tom Bannick and his wife soon moved
into their quarters, and Mrs. Raven and
Olympia accompanied them. Olympia, in
deed, had felt somewhat sensitive about
keeping up such intimate relations with
people now grown wealthy, but she yielded
TO the Bannicks' obviously sincere protes-
| tations. Besides, the price given for her
pictures by Count de Lisle and his promise
to order another made her feel almost rich
| herself. tlE
One morning while she was painting in
the little room set apart for her studio, and
her mother and Mrs. Bannick were out
shopping, the Count de Lisle's card was
order." she said to herself, and rejecting
that it would be business like TO receive
him in her studio, palette in hand, she
! babe the servant conduct him in.
He presently appeared, filling up the
doorway with his tall, military figure.
Olympia, rising, glanced at his yellow,
upright hair, his shining eyeglasses, and
his short, pointed beard, and feared she
would find him tiresome. But he had been
so good to her friends and herself, and
rumor made him out SO extraordinary a
parsonage, that she was disposed TO make
the most Of any promising traits he might
display.
81 interrupt you at your work." said he.
bowling, ana looking so very French, and
I
Olympia unconsciously replied to him in
the Gallo tongue, which she spoke really
as well as her own. ''lldis non, monsieur
said she: ''UOus nc m'ineOmnOGc pas Ie mofrs
dU monde; apropOs, 'eest di mon outrage que
mons Grous a cdUseT, restu pds?'
This evidently pleased the count very
much and put him completely at his ease.
He sat down on the little sofa in the win
dow. Olympia remained at her easel, but
laid away her palette and brushes, and
they were soon chatting together in the
language of Paris with the freedom ana
vivaciiy OF old acquaintance. Olympia
did not find the count the stiff and rather
portentious being that she had pictured
him from TOMS description.
'And is this your irstvisit to Americai"
she inquired at length.
al feel already so much at home that l
can hardly think il is my first, ~ he replied,
land 1 am nearly decided to make this my
home. France is not, or ever will be, the
France she was"
Then you are an imperialist! But we
have no emperors heren
"F'renchmen are not like Americans:
they need the strong hand. The DeLisles
were Frenchmep generations before the
first Napoleon left Corsica. They were
monarchists; but at present there is still
less hope for the king than for the emperor.
AS for me- was with Napoleon during the
"You knew Napoleon himself. Did you
like him!"
81 owe him much,n repsated the count.
al cannot criticise him. he was a great
adventurer, and he conquered fortune for
q time"
but what did he do especially for youi"
"Well,n said the count, hesitating lit
tie, ''he gave me the cross of the Legion,
and he gave me my title. My father was
plain gentleman"
"What had you done to win the cross"
The count smiled. II was not a great
soldier" he said, but had good luck. OPP
portunities came in my way. You remem-
GrGvelotte, near Metz, on the 18th OF
August"
Olympia nodded. sand he shut himself
up in Metz the same night4'
Eyes; / see you are not ignorant OF these
thinge. Well. then, he wished TO send news
to MacMahoon, who was somewhere TO the
west of us-it might be fifty miles or 1t
might be hundred. 1t was really hun
dred. as IL turned out, for l found him at
Rheims, and lost another thirty miles b.
wandering"
You bore the dispatches from Bazaine
to MacMahoa, then"
II did, and had an unpleasant time OF
1t. My iirst horse was killed my second
was drowned; / was myself wounded
slightly in the leg and in the arm with one
thing and another. l was three days on
the road. l reached MacAlahon's camp on
the 22nd pretty tired. l handed in my dis
patches. Napoleon and the marshal were
in the room together. MacManon ques-
toned me- The dispatch said that Bazaine
meant to break through the investing
armies under Prince Frederick and Albert
OF Saxony and gain Chalons by a northern
route. / said that / did not believe ne
would succeed. The enemy were too strong
and were constantly REINFORCED. Napoleon
listened and kept his eyes on me. "What
should we do then. MIR. de Lisle!'' he asked
me. "March to save Paris at oncer' said.
Napoleon glanced at MacMahon and nod
ded. But. as learned later, the minister
of war in Paris had sent orders to move on
Metz; MacMahon hesltated; Napoleon,
who was i'll, would not decide. and in the
end, ~ NO doubt you remember, mademoi-
selle, we set out for the Mouse. 1t WAS
when that order was given that France