Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-02
CASABIANCA.
The End nf the Story.

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 Synopsis of previous chapters: Young Casabianca, son of Lewis Casa blanca, a French naval officer, accom- panied his father on the expedition to Egypt in 179S, the elder Casabianca being in command of the flagship L'Orient. In the battle of the Nile. which was fought on August 1, the Captaln-or Admiral, as some author 1tles have it-was mortally wounded. Of this, however, the boy knew noth- ing. The ship caught fire, the gunners left their posts, and everybody on board took to the boats except the boy, who was standing on the burning deck of the vessel, and the commander, who lay unconscious in the coming tower, or, possibly the cockpit. The boy all though exceedingly anxious to escape, dld not dare to leave his post, for fear his father would see him and give him the rope's-end. So, while the flames roared about him he stood and yelled: :: Father can't I go now? It's getting mighty hot here. But the father made no response, and the lad stood there till the fire reached the illustra- ted magazines and the ship blew up.)
 CHAPTER XXXIT. But young Casabianica, though con- siderably shaken up, was not killed. lie escaped as by miracle. When the explosion took place he was blown a distance of nearly a hun dred yards, but was picked up almost immediately by the captain of daha beah and found to be uninjured. On rev1v1ng and being asked his name he sald he was a stowaway who hap pened to be on board the flagship and that his name was Higgins.
 The captain of the dahabeah was taking no part in the battle. He was there merely out of curiosity. and or dered that the journey up the Nile. Which the incident of the battle had interrupted. be resumed. He was greatly taken with the boy, and of- Tered him free passage up the river and return. The offer was accepted. The voyage consumed the rest of the summer and nearly all the fall.
 So much attached to young Higgins had the captain of the boat become by this time that he adopted the boy into his family and finally made him his heir
 As the lad grew to manhood he married an Egyptian girl and became the father of large family.
 CHAPTER XXXIIIT.
 But old age drew on. Captain Hie. gins, feeling his end approaching summoned his wife and children to his bedside -'
 My dear ones," he said, q have q confession to make to you My name IS not Higgins, but Casabianca."
 Whereupon he told them the story or the battle and his supposed death.
 ne papers" he said played me up as a young hero. Poems. I dare say, have been written about me. and to the end of time I shall be held m as an example of bravery and of obe- dience to parental authority. Rut the real facts in the case are as I have told you.'
 But, father" said one of his sons. It was brave thing to do and yon deserve all the good things that have been said about you. Why didn't you tell who you were and take your pIace among the survivors?"
 Because, my son. replied the dy Ing man, T knew the department wouldn't take that view of the mat Ter. 1t would have said I was guilty or reprehensible conduct in leaving the snip without my fathers permission. and l should have been ce1isured for making that loop through the, airv
 So saying, he breathed his last. and his story, which is here given in full for the first time, was discovered in an old copper cylinder belonging to an Egyptian family on the west side. Ill whose possession it had remained unopened for nearly fifty years.-Chi- cago Tribune.