Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10

| citizen of Bois-Preau had his hair turn
| gray one night he made short cut
| through 1t. Such a woman of La Reunion
saw what made her a fervent Catholic
forever after. 1t was by a new moon
Servants of Rueil and Bougival, in love
| trysts under the old trees, have been so
upset as to go and sin no more.
| They have seen shadowy sentnels.
They have seen dim groups of officers
in battered uniforms of the grande armee.
| They have heard the muffled tramp OF
| troops. And more.
During the five years that Malmaison
| belonged to NJ. Osiris, before the govern
| ment accepted the donation it was often
] proposed to the millionaire that parties
watch the park by the new moon. His
peremptory refusal is referred back to
| some sort of solemn promise extorted
| from him by Madame Doria when she
sold him the place during her last illness.
Spectres Have Been Seen.
Shadowy sentinels. dim groups, the muf-
| fled tramp Of troops. all these are vague
yes, but barber of Rueil saw two fair
| women in white laughing under a tree. and
further on two other shadowy forms, a man
| and woman.
| AS many as twenty or thirty inhabitants
| OF Bougival, Bois-Breau and Rueil are
pointed out as having seen the filmy beau
ties by the light of the new moon.
| And as the historic tale is whispered those
ghost-laughs are terrible, because the fair
! DANES triumphed prematurely, failing in
| the task that they had undertaken in the
| evening of June 20, 1915.
They would have changed the fate of the
\ world. those beauteous creatures faithful
! to Napoleon in his downfall, when his very
mother fled from him.
1t was early evening. Cannon Numbered
afar off. Butchers Prussians were attack
| ing Aubervilliers. In haste, to defend Mall
| mason, where Napoleon was refuged, a few
| troops had blown up the bridges of Chatou.
Bezons and st. Germain. But parties of
Cossacks were footing within few miles.
AT Malmaison there was the silence of
death. Napoleons mother, with Queen
Hortense and Lucien, had fled the night be-
| fore. Marshals, ministers and servants had
| fled that morning.
| For three days past Napoleon had in vain
demanded of the new provisional govern
| ment the privilege of serving as a simple
citizen; to rally the still considerable rem
nants of the grande armee and resist in
| vasion. Now he had ,sent the request once
again by Gen. de Flahut. He was waiting
for de Flahut to bring back the answer
from Davout, the new minister of war.
Suddenly gay clamor rose. In a ire
mendous jingling of spurs and gathering of
hoofs 1t was joyfully announced that the
entire division of Brayer. just back from
the Vendee, had come by forced marches t.
rescue the emperor.
Napoleon looked with sudden triumph
from the map. Bertrand, Savary and Gour-
gaud feverishly pleaded with him to take
| the chance. Here was a unique occasion.
With Brayer's division they could march
| at once on the unsuspecting enemy. Other
faithful troops could be put in motion.
Blucher's vanguard would be crushed AT
| the news of it Paris would rise and the
provisional government and the chamber
of peers would disappear. Becker himself
though charged by the provisional govern
n1ent to hold Napoleon-counseled last eff
| fort-and offered his sword.
| The emperor liked it. Step by step he