The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-16
kissed each other.

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1 What does this mean?" asked
/ Orsini.
II do not know. replied De Rudio.
| Then he explained how the reprieve
| had reached him on the scaffold. II
only know I am not to die yet" he
said
Better two than three" said orsini
as the soldiers hurried him along.
The priests aud De Rudio stopped
half minute in the prison door. They
saw Orsini mount the scaffold staps,
face as his eyes met those OF ,oe
Rudio. Then he bowed farewell to
his youthful friend. Tears came to the
eyes Of De Rudio He shook his head
inpattently to clear his sight. When
the tears no longer bothered him he
looked forward once more. AS he lid
SO he saw the big blade flash and then
The saw the head of Orsini fall.
1t was not until late that March day
that De Rudio understood how he came
| to be reprieved or who was responsible
for saving his life. Then he Learned
| that the Empress. moved by the tears
/! Of De Rudios youthful wife, moved
| too perhaps, by knowledge OF how
! fiery Is the blood of the southern born,
| had asked the Emperor to save the
young mans life, The Emperor had
refused. The Empress, angered by
this refusal. and unable to Withstand
the passionate pleadings of the grief
stricken wife, had gone at the last
minute to the project OF police ana
ordered him to stay the execution.
i Not until two hours after Orsini was
dead did Napoleon III. know that De
Rudio lived. Then he was furious. He
and the Empress had a violent quarrel
Had it been possible for him to do 80
legally the Emperor would have or.
dered De Rudio sent back to the scat
fold, but he could not. But De Rudio
Lad only short CLEAN of hope. He
was tried once more and again was
condemned 10 die. BY this time the
t.mperor's wrath had cooled and the
tears of the Empress were too much
Tor him, so he commuted the sentence
to life imprisonment In one of Frances
penal settlements. There De Rudio
spent more than five years. and then
by taking advantage OF series OF
queer happenings he managed to
escape and make his way to America.
The North and the South We're at
war when he reached the United
States. He Joined Company a of the
Seventy ninth New York Volunteer.
as private, fought under Grant and
oene! SIeat commanders ana WFen ne
} was mustered out In 1865 he was seconc
Lieutenant Of the Second United States
infantry. In August, 1857. he Joined
the regular army and was appointed
second lieutenant of infantry.
Two years later he was assigned to
the seventh Cavalry and under Custer
!. saw lots Of indian fighting. For more
than ten years he was on the front
q Ter Few men in the army saw more
! hard service than rudy" did in those
! stirring days
i IN 1876 the government realized Il
. was going to have trouble with tn,
SIOUX but no one supposed 1t was go
a ing 10 be SO serious as 1t proved lat
h en-, For several years the government
a had been endeavoring to get the fam
d Gus tribe to move from Montana to
new reservation in Dakota. Sittin:
S bull and the chiefs refused. The gov
ethment, after all efforts at treaty
it making had failed, ordered the Indian
e 20 move by certain date or the.
would be considered enemies OF TIL
II United States The Sioux tlereupol
d TOOK position In the rugged countr
IN Southern Montana. gathered all tn
n malcohtent Indians they could ard pre-
y pared TO give such a fight to the pale
lace as he had not had since the day
D OF Tecumseh.
Is Once the disposition Of the indian
/" was known, the government sen
enough troops to handle the situa
- ion without difficulty. Savage a