The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
FLIGHT OF AN EMPRESS.
Some New Facts About EugenIe's Escape
from Paris.


Some New Facts About EugenIe's Escape
from Paris.
In recent most interesting inter
view, Mrs. Evans, wife of the Ameri-
can dentist who assisted Empress
Eugene in her flight from Paris, gave
some new details of that escape with
which the second empire concluded.
The empress left the TuiIeries 50
hastily that she had with her only a
small hand bag containing two pocket
handlzerchiefs and her prayer book.
Dressed in black, which she had worn
ever since news came of the terrible
defeat Of Sedan, heavily yelled and ac-
companied only by one lady, she made
her way to the Office of DR.. Evans, who
it curiously happened had once said to
her at the beginning OF the war, the re-
suit of which he To some degree fore
saw. that if ever the time came when
he could serve her in any way, she
must come 70 him
She reminded him of his words and
asked his assistance. He was the Sec
rotary of the American ambulance in
Paris, and a dinner was to be held at
his house that night, to decide upon
matters concerning ambulance work:
but while he dared not put off the din
ner for fear of arOusing suspicion, he
arranged to be absent, alleging in ex-
cuse a telegram from his wife at Deau-
vile which made his presence there
imperative. lie and his secretary, DIR.
Crane, then started with the two ladies
for DeauviIle.
Great was the surprise of Mrs. Evans
when her husband, after an adven-
turous journey with his imperial
charge, arrived in her little parlOr,
weary and anxious, and in low voice
told her that the lady who so short a
time ago was empress of the French
was IN the next room, requiring help
and protection. He then brought her
in, and after being provided with fresh
linen by her hostess, she sat down to
dine, first hanging haudkerchiefs on
the dOOr-knObs that no one might
listen or look in at the keyholes. DR..
Evans having passed her off as an in
valid, they dispensed with a waiter, on
the ground of her being too nervous to
endure strange faces, and Mrs Evans
set the table and waited herself, al
though this seemed to distress the en-
press. who constantly exclaimed:
-'Ah, how much trouble am givingr'
After the meal. during the long even
ing Of suspense while they waited for
a message from Lord John Burgoyne.
an Engl.shman whose yacht was lying
in the harbor, to whom DR.. Exams had
appealed 20 give the unhappy fugitive
a passage to England the empress
talked patheticalIy of her hasty flight.
showing her shabby clothes, and the
two handkerchiefs which she had her
self washed on the journey and then
pressed between the leaves of her
PRAYER book to iron them
The thing I would have liked 70
bring away with me above all others, -
she exclaimed, was the tiny brush
with which I used to brush nv boys
hair when he was baby" and so say
inr she broke down and wept bitterly;
adding through her tears that she had
left the little brush in the baby-basket.
and asking if Mrs. Evans did not think
it might be overlooked and be left I'M
touched
No one but the mother would care
for anything like that"
Near midnight word came that the
yacht was ready. Eugene, her lady,
and DR.. Evans started toward the
wharf, and Mrs. Evans watched them
steal quietly through the bright noon
light, which was too soon overcast. \
fearful storm was gathering, in which
the man of war Captain, the most pow
erful in the British navy, commanded
by Sir John Burgoyne's cousin went
down; but the little yacht, though torn
and battered, weathered the tempest,
and after twenty hours of terror came
safely to anchor at Ryde.-Youth's
Companion.
Some OF your grlers you nave
cured, and the sharpest you still have
survived; but what tOrments of pain
VOC endured from the evils that never
arriyed-BroWniDg.