The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-25
"That,s the empress!,

'IhatS the empress.
Instantly one of the gentlemen in at
tendance seized the urchin by one ear
and boxed the other soundiy, saying,
III teach you to shout 'Vive la
Prussei'
For a moment the knot of idlers
laughed. Then some one in the crowd
said distinctly: 'All the same, that is
the empress"
A silence followed, broken by a single
voice, low, but perfectly distinct:
Death to the empress!"
There was a restless mavement, a
quick pressing forward of wicked faces,
a shuttle of heavy shoes. In second
the crowd doubled itself as if by magic;
voices rose, harsh and ominous. Some
body struck the iron railing with
steel-banded club. Bourke, standing
close to the gutter by the cab, felt the
door pushed outward, and he turned
alarmed as both young girls spranG
out One of them ran to the empress
and motioned toward the cab.
Hasten, madame" she said, here
is q cab"
Before the crowd comprehended what
was being done, the empress had
passed them, followed by another lady
and two gentlemen.
Good heavens muttered HARDWOOD
to Bourke. lit is the empress and
Nine. lie Breton"
The empress laid one hand on the
cab window, then drew back and said:
II would not wish TO take your cab IL
you are also in danger
With one foot on the carriage step
she looked back at the young girls,
appearing utterly oblivious of the risk
she herself ran.
are in no DANGER All, hasten, mad
ame!"
Both of the gentlemen in waiting
urged the empress to enter. but she
refused, and looked steadily at the
crowd. which was now closing round
the little group. Then she quietly
stooI,ed and kissed the girls.
THANK you,' she said. I accept,
my children"
nized hel. two escorts as the Italian
minister and the Austrian ambassador.
And while the empress and her lady
in waiting entered the cab, Bourke
said in English:
eco quickly, gentlemen; these young
ladies are safe with us. God knows
why the mob does not attack you"
Monsieur de Metternich turned, cool
and collected. and bowed to Bourke.
The empress leaned from the cab win
dow and looked at the young girls
standing together, white and fright
ened.
Twill you tell me your name?'
They seemed not to understand, and
Hardwood said:
Quick, the empress asks your
names"
liam Yolette Chalais-and this
is Hide, my sister," stammered one of
the girls AS she spoke, In her en-
harrassment, the basket dropped from
ln three
white pigeons whirled out, fiuttering
through the crowd, that scattered for
a moment, trying to see what had hap
pened.
Now" cried Bourke, as the two
diplomats jumped into the cab and
slammed the door. The cabman seized
his reins and dashed savagely at his
shrieking, and, before they understood,
the cab dashed away in a torrent of
dust and flying pebbles.
In his excitement, Bourke laughed
aloud, crying: JIM jim. What fool
of a mob, Well, of all the bloodless
revolutions 1 ever heard of! Look!
Here come some troops, too. The thing
is over"
The thing was nearly over. Even the
ST German omnibuses were running
now, hating as usual for passengers
in front of the beautiful church oppo-
site, and to one of these omnibuses
Bourl.e and Hardwood conducted the
two young ladies who had given up
their cab to the Empress of France.
Nobody interfered with them, nobody
seemed to notice them except pasty
visaged young man with pale pig-like
eyes, who nodded hastily to Bourke and
walked away.
THAT was Speyer, the war CORE
spondent for that German-American
sheet" said Bourke to Hardwood. Il.
didn't know he was in Paris"
Hardwood frowned and said nothing
until their disconnected, bot grateful,
charges were safely seated in the omnI-
bus. Then Bourke said several civil
things in well-intentioned French.