Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-17

n letter arrived from Germany, which
she rend gaily ct his bedside, struR-
Cling hard with her tears. The colonel
listened reigiously, smiling with an air
OF superiority, approving. crttlciging'
explaining; but u was IN the answers
to his son that he was at his best
Never forget that you are French
man. he wrote; he generous to these
POOR people DO not make the inVa-
sion too hard for them His advice was
never ending, edifying sermons about
respect of property, the pOllteness due
to ladies': in short, quite code OF mill-
tary honors FOR the use OF conqucters.
with all this he put In some general re,
Elections on politics and the conditions OF
the peace to be imposed ON the van
quished- With regard to the latter
must say he wns not cXactlng
"''rhe war indemnity and nothing
else 1t is not wen to take provinces.
Can ono turn Germany into France?
"He dictated this with so firm
voice, and one felt so much sincerity
IN his words. so much patriotic faith,
that II was impossible to listen to him
unmoyed
meanwhile the seige went on-not
the selge of Berlin. alas, We were at
the worst period of cold, of lombard
ment, Of epidemic. of famine. Bu.
thanks to our care and the indefatiga-
BILE tenderness which surrounded him,
Ail' VIZ hAtAh = 'N'H' -
moment disturbed. Up to the end
was able TO procure white bread ana
fresh meat for him, but for him only
You could not lmuglnc anything more
touching than those breahlasts OF tne
grandfather, 50 innocently egptistlc'fit-
ting up In bed, fresh and smiling. the
napkin tied under his chin, mt his side
his granddaughter. pale from her pri-
vatiOnf guiding his hands. making him
drink, helping him TO eat AL these Boou'
forbidden things. Then revived by the
repast, In the comfort OF ms warm
room. with tile wintry wind smut OUT
| and the snow eddying ABOUT tue WIN
dow, the Old cuirassier Wouln rechil ms
northern coinpaisns. and would relate
10 us that difhatrous feueat IN iusslu,
where there was nothing 10 eat put
frozen biscuits ana horsetlesn' ~
can you understand that' httie
one? we ate norSellrHn.
Il should think she did understand
II. FOR TWO months she hhd thsteu
nothing else AS convalescence np-
proncncd, our task increased utlly IN
difficulty. The nulnpness OF thc
coloneIs senses as Wen as OF ms hinps'
which had hitherto helped us so much'
was beginning to pass away. Once or
twice those terrible voieys AT the
Porte Maillot had made nm start ana
prlck up ms ears IKE Whr morse we
were Obliged to invent victory OF Ba-
zaine's before Berlin ana salVos hred
from the lnvalides IN honor OF IT,
Another day (the Thursday of Buzen-
val ! think II was) his bed mad been
pushed to the window whence ne saw
some of the national guard massed
upon the Avenue de la Grnnde Afmee.
what soldiers are those he asked
and we heard him gruinblng beneath
his teeth
Badly drilled, badly drilled.
Nothing came OF this, but we UNI
derstod that henceforth greater pre-
cautions wete necessary. Unfortunate
ly, we Were not careful enough.
"One evening l was met by the child
in much trouble.
1t ls tomorrow they make their
entry. she said.
Gould the grand fathers door have
been open? In thinking of II since,
remember that all that evening his
face wore an extraordinary expression.
Probably he had overheard us; only
we spoke of the Prussians and he
thought Of the French. of the triumphal
entry he had so long expected, MacMa-
hon descending the avenue amid
flowers and flourish OF trumpets, his
own son riding beside the marshal, and
he himself on his balcony, in full uni
form as at Lutzen, saluting the rag
ged colors and the eagles blackened by
powder.
Poor Colonel Jouve! He no doubt
imagined that we wished to prevent
| his assisting at the defile of the troops,
| lest the emotion should prove too
| strong for him, and therefore took
care not to say nothing to us; but
! the next day, just at the time the
Prussian battalions cautiously en-
tered the long road leading from the
| Porte Maillot to the Tuileries, the