The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

stabbinE pains in his side. where can
cerOus ulcers were cutting their way un-
suspected by the ive physicians who
first and last had attended him, Antom-
him a drastic purge Of tartar emitic that
caused the sick man to writhe on the
floor.
Even in the month before the end,
when he recIined in his chair, stricken
and cold, his memory gone and his
mind wandering. the English doctor,
doubling the seriousness OF his condition,
told him to get up and shave. his beard
being long and giving his face a horrible
appearance. But he could only feebly
plead his helplessness.
Lord Bathurst, the colonial secretary
! in London. was seized most untimely
with A new alarm. and he warned Lowe
that he had strong reasons for believing
that Gen. Bonaparte was seriously cher
ishing an idea OF escaping from 81.
Helena. And IL was true. for the prisoner
of T-ongwood well knew that the hour
! OF his deIiveranCe was fast approaching
England calls for my corpse" he said
three weeks before his spirit surrendered
! it; 4 will not keep her waiting"
The EIiIe's Escape.
May ; Isr.
The sun was setting behind the black
wind Atlantic and which had
burst upon St. Helena in a furious storm
like the roar Of mighty batteries. The
ISLANDERS: almost unacquainted with IN"
sound Of thunder. were filed with ter-
IrOr. The tents OF the British guards at
lAonEwood were blown away and the
picket ships. in peril Of the rocks, made
The night before. while Montholor
watched nv his chief. who had IimPed
into thc drSwinS room 10 pass his few
him muttor ''France-Armee-teted Ar
NEE. with the last ftfuI burst Or
that energy which had shaken thrones
he Sprang from his cot and dragged ths
"a i'm,
forth throughout the day he lay motion
less. on his little camp bed. thirty inches
before AuEterlitZ and-Waterloo!
In the next room Father VignaH knelt
At the altar, while about the dying En-
peror stood his grand marshal Of the
children: Count de Montholon. and
Marchand and St Denis with others OF
the servants.
When the evening tempest was beat
ing loudest against the walls Of Long
wood. at eleven minutes before s. the exile
made his hnal escape. As the tormentsd
Of youth Overspread the countenance on
the pillow. leaving no trace OF the rest
less ambitions and turbulent passions
that so long had troubled II.
The letter OF notification which Ma
poleon himself had dictated in antictps-
ton Of the event, was forwarded to Sir
Hudson Lowe The French commissioner
sure himself that the dethrOned Emperor
was secure in his captivity. An autopsy
disclosed the liver to be only slightly
enlarged and the heart remarkably small.
while the stomach was found to be ter
ribly ravaged by a cancerous growth
A grave was dug in a spot chosen by
the Emperor beside a spring and be-
meath the shade Of two willows In
deep TavIne. then called the Devils
Punch Bowl. but thenceforth more agree
ably known as Geranium Valley. Some
slabs Of stone torn from the kitchen
floor at Longwood were selected for the
covering OF the tomb. and the mourning
followers wished to carve upon II merely
the name Napoleon. The governor. how
ever. forbade the inscription as too i'm
per!al. unless the surname Bonaparts
were added. and the stone was left bare.
On the fourth day after death, q fu-
neral car bore the body to the melan-
choly vale. with the sword OF the con-
qusror and the cloak OF Marengo lying
on the comm, and as the great captain
was laid TO rest. British guns fired across
his nameless grave
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