The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-06

In Paris kept up a similar watch
on the headquarters Of the Royalist and
Bonapartist parties. The Royalists are
formidable, thanks to the influence of
society; but the Bonapartist cause is
represented by small and dwlndling
clique of Journalists and demagogs,
who exhaust themselves in the effort to
revive the Napoleonic legend, by their
parrot-like repetition Of the words Mar
engo and Austerlitz.
did not imagine that this noisy fac
ton would be intrusted with any i'm
portant secret; and l was soon satisfied
that if the chiefs of the army were
really contemplating a restora-
ton, Bourbon or Bonapartist,
they had kept their design entirely to
themselves. , y
The first reports which I received
from my agents abroad were discourag-
ing. The Bourbon Pretender, who is
without reticence and seeks every OPP
portunity of advertising his personality,
appeared to be quite passive for the
| moment. , So. g.
Prince Victor Napoleon, man Of
very different character. who with
draws himself as much as possible from
public notice, conscious, perhaps, that
he has inherited some of his father s
a%a e was nd also no lea sGdga a
Forthcoming of any secret intelligence
between him and the group of generals
who controlled the French army.
Things were in this position, and I
was beginning to feel dissatisfied with
| the slow progress | was making, when
l was suddenly called to the telephone
one evening by my agent in Brussels,
who had at last some important news
| for me. ..f-
,"P Prince Victor is going to England,
he announced, after we had exchanged
"To Englandl' Was it possible that
the two rivals were about to meets l
asked myself. "When does he de-
part?"
"Perhaps tomorrow. His secretary
has been to the Belgian foreign office
to procure rTS a passports; ,u+a oa,i.oa -
England returned, my suspicious in
stantly reused. "You have been de-
ceived. Have you seen the passport9'
"No; it was from the servants that
I learned the prince was going to Eng
land.'
him to leave Brussels without you. [
shall come by the next train,
I rang off the communication, and
FASTENED to make the necessary prepar-
ations for a journey Of which I could
not foresee the end.
On alighting in the Belgian capital
I was met by my faithful henchman,
who informed me with sparkling eyes
that he had succeeded, by means Of a
bribe, in ascertaining from a clerk in
the foreign office that a passport had
been granted to the Comte de Saint Pol
and secretary, travelling to Berlin.
If anything had been needed to con-
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Napoleon had a serious purpose, these
concealments would have done so. !
was now confident that I was on the
right track, and / did not grudge the
fatigue involved In journey across
Europe.
I ordered Fouque, as my man was
named, to resume his watch on the
| station from which the Berlin express
takes it's departure. It was under
stood that we were both to proceed by
the same train as the Comte de Saint
Pol and his companion.
No hitch occurred; the prince, accom-
panied by his secretary and my agent
duly arrived to take their seats in the
train, and the four of us alighted to
gether in the capital of Germany.
had. spent the interval in considering
my plan of action. I was so far from
foreseeing the true cause Of Prince Ma
poleor's mysterious journey, that ex
pected to find him Goseted the mex
day with the German emperor, impart
ir1y the confidence which GARNER ha(
. different.
r AS soon as the two travellers hat
! taken up their quarters in hotel
= whittier it is needless to say, we accom-
panied them, the secretary was sent ou
, ON an Grand by himself. Fouque, o:
, course, followed, and came back. il
about an hour with the startling infor
| the Russian embassy.
The meaning Of this proceedins
flashed upon me at once. The rea
destination of the prince was not Der
lin, but Petersburg. He was merely
passing a few hours in Berlin in orde
: to confuse the trail and he had sent hi
passport to the embassy to be vised TO-
Russia -. ...
, In order to make sure that. my sur
, mise was correct, decided to make u.s.
;, of my implied authority to act on be
half Of the German government.
: ordered Fouque to force his way bodil,
: into the count IS apartment, announce
= himself as an agent Of the Berlin police
: and demand to, see the stranger pass
! port. The ruse was completely success
= full, and I learned that the yellow sea
VI CAO 4Vt1oo1oA OcS1O LOU UCOu dA1AC'
= to the paper. yx.
My own task had now become diff
: cult and dangerous. Altho I maintai,
friendly relations with the Russian 20
! lice, with whom I have often collabo
q rated, I knew they were not likely t
y tolerate my intrusion into their terri
q tory as the spy Of a foreign power. L
. dealing with half-reclaimed savage
Q like the Slavs, one never knows wha
I form their revenge will take, and Six
Q eria is not a country in which I hav
1 ever had any inclination to reside.
. The plan which presented itself t
9 my mind was an audacious one. but i
: such situations audacity is safer tina
I faint hearts dness. I dispatched Fou
n que to the headquarters of the Berli
/ police with denunciation agains
!, Prince Napoleon g secretary for tn
:, crime Of lese-majeste.
q Lese majestic is the one offense whic
!. is never treated lightly in German off!
/, cial quarters. Fouque's informatio
T was eagerly taken down, and polio
a officer promptly arrived at the hote
with a warrant for the arrest of tn
J. traveller.
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