The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-16

should bring a comra6e than that Won
should be forced 20 Join in sslch q strug-
gla."
.sTa. "a. ia" said he: Il was a soldier
before ! vas an emperor. Do Won think,
then. that artiIlerynsen have rot swords as
well as the hussars2 But ] ordered yoa
nor 20 argue with me. You will do exact
ly what / tell you II swords are once
drawn. neither OF these men is 10 get
away alive"
They shall not, sire" said T.
VERY good. I have no more instruc-
lions for you. You can GO
I turned to the door. and then an .9sa
occurring 20 me, I turned:
Il have bean thinking. sire" said l.
He Surang az RE with the ferocity OF a
wsld beast. | really thought that he
would have struck me.
Thinking he cried. You You, 10
Won imagine chose you out because you
could think Let me hear Of your doing
such thing again Xou. the one man
but there. You meet me at the ir tree
nj 80 O'Clock
Ny faith. ! was right glad to get out
OF the room. II l have a good horse IN
der me. and q sword cianking against my
stirrnp iron. know where am. And IN
all that relates TO green fodder or dry
barley and oats and rye. ard the handling
OF sauaarons upon the march. there is no
one who can teach me very much. hut
when I meet chamberlain ard a marshal
OF the palace. and have TO pick my words
with an emperor and find that everybody
hints instead Of talking straight out. feel
like a troop horse who has been put in a
lady's caieche. II is not my trade. ali
this rnincing and pretending l couldn't
do il, and never like those who can. So
/ was right glad to get into the fresh air
s~arss .-rsz w.
Ike a schooiboy who has just escaped
from the seminary master.
But as / opened the door the very first
thing that my eyes rested upon was a
long pair OF sky-blue legs. with hussar
boots. and short pair OF black ones with
knee breaches and buckles. They both
sprang up together TO greet me.
Well. what news?" they cried, the two
Of them.
None" I answered.
THE emperor refused to see you."
No: | have seen MIN"
And what did he say?'
Monsieur de Talleyrand." I answered,
II regret 10 say that il is quite impossi-
BILE for me TO tell you anything about IL.
have promised the emperor
Pooh. pooh. my dear young man." said
he. sliding up 70 me as a cat does when it
is about to rub itself against you. This
goes no further than these four walls.
Besides the emperor never meant 10 in
clude me in this promise
1t is but a minutes walk TO the palace.
Monsieur de Talleyrand, | answered. III
N would not be troubling you too much
20 ask you to step up to il. and TO bring
back the emperor's written statement that
he did not mean TO include you in this
promise. I shall he happy to tell you every
word that passed.
He showed his teeth at me then like the
old fox that he was
Monsieur Gerard appears to he a little
pulled up" said he. He is too young TO
see things in their just proportion. AS he
grows older he may understand that IL
1t is not always very discreet for a sub
altern of cavalry to give such very abrupt
refusals.'
/ did not know what to say to this, but
Lasalle came TO my aid in his downright
fashion.
''The lad is quite right" said he. IF
I had known that there was promise
| should not have questioned him. You
know very well. Monsieur de Talleyrand.
that if he had answered you, You would
have laughed in your sleeve and thought
as much about him as | think of the bottle
when the Burgundy is gone. AS to mes
promise you that the Tenth would have
had no room for him, and that we should