The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

vain, talkative knave. The Queen. in 1872.
had become alive 10 this side OF his char
acter and while securing his services at
the camp, took care not TO apprise him OF
her intended fight. He had appointed on
leaving her to SO 10 dress the head of
Nine De Choiseuil and she gave him
note which she directed him 70 give him.
self TO Nj De Choiseuil before proceeding
to the toilet of madame That nObleman
read II and said 70 Leonard: My wife is
in the country-but not far from town.
She directed that you Were TO drive to her
in carriage my coachman Will make
ready"
In few minutes a servant announced
that a chaise stood al the door, and NJ. DE
Choiseuil went down TO 1t with the hair
dresser, whom he told TO jump in: The
duke stepped in after him and bid the
driver give lash and rein TO the horses.
Some distance out. Leonard. alarmed,
wondered whittier he was bound. De Choi-
seui laughed at his fears, which he ex-
pressed In lamentations at Meaux. where
they again changed horses. The duke In
formed him that they were bound for the
frontier whereupon the latter writhed and
groaned at his inability to keep profess
sional engagement, with certain Mime.
Laage. He also cried, Il have no change of
body linen or money.
Buy here. L can give you any change
you want.
They supped at Montmirail, sitting on
the side of a bed. so as TO avoid crowded
public room, and could only get away at
3 in the morning. Forty nussars awaited
Due De ChoiseuiI informed Leonard why
he had inveigled him away from Paris. and
that the hussars were charged 10 escort
him to the Chateau of Thomelle. where
General De BoUille had his headquarters,
and the royal family to join them the next
evening under another cavalry escort sent
TO Font de Sommevesle to meet them.
DISAPPEARANCE OF JEWELS.
The duke also informed Leonard that he
had brought a scarlet and gold coat for
jewels of the Queen in strong box. and
all those of the Princess Elizabeth. These
objects were to be handed over to the
Duke De Damas, the officer in command of
escort which would fall in with the
royal family at Clermont.
From Clermont Ga few hours distan0
Leonard was TO be ordinary traveller
going to the frontier. But Leonard seems
to have been pulled up With vanity at the
Importance OF his mission" and he talked
of the jewels and the Kings coat to the
men of the escort every time they halted.
He gave them. however, to NJ. De Damas
at Clcrmont. and the latter confided them
TO an officer who was found aSSaSSinated
next day. The jewels had disappeared.
Nothing more was heard of Leonard for
three months All that time had been
spent by him in Germany, and he came
back wealthy. He is supposed to have
bribed his gaolers to guillotine somebody
else In his name in the reign Of terror. The
name of Leonard figures in the list of those
guillotined in Paris in 1898. But that year
the hairdresser Of the decapitated Queen
escaped to Russia whence in 1914, he re-
turned prosperous and in good health. He
died in 1890 in Paris.
Layedan and Lenotre assume, which Is
highly probable, that his indiscreet talk
came round to Drouet, and put him on the
scent of the royal family. The determine
ton of Drouet obliged the mayor of Warren
mes to arrest them.
Drout had the bridge cut by which they
were to have gone on to Montmedy. He
would have learned about 1t directly or in
directly from Leonard. Choiseuil came at
the time appointed to Sommevesle and
waited there an hour and a quarter, until
the presence of him and his hussars be-
came noticed by the rustics about As
his troop was disaffected, he feared to re-
tain them longer and returned to the
camp. But for the imperious demand Of
the Kings appetite mentioned above,
the royal party would have been on time
at Commevesle, and there would have been
no regicidal execution in 1893.
EMILY CRAWFORD.