The Washington herald., 1914-10-18

lookout on Fort Stella reported that q
strong wind was springing up In the
took the oars and rowed Caesar to his
\ fortunes out at the harbor mouth. where
the whitecaps were sporting on the blue.
befriended the Islander on this, his native
seal They had borne him a fugitive
from Corsica to Toulon, and to his first
yietoEy. and 1y! thsy had pa parted lane , for Or
hnd an empire N the East and returned
70 md II IN the West. The very south
wind which now sped him back to bis
under the Iszily happing sails Of the
British warship Partridge. beoalmed IN
the harbor Of Leghorn-
The eagle had been IN Night fun day
and q half when the commissioner re-
turned at last to find the cage empty.
Had he sailed away to join King Murat
had he headed for the Genoese coast and
Piedmont? Who knew? Even the Prin-
cess Pauline vowed she did not know,
tation Of her heart she took his hand
and pressed 1t to that shapely bosom
which Canova delighted to reproduce in
marble; But the phlegmatic Briton did
and being sure that the entire town was
laughing at him, he and the Partridge
went scudding about the little neighbor-
ing islands, peering in at every cove.
Meanwhile the runaway Emperor and
his feet were having an unexciting yoy-
age over their 16O-mile course to the
coast Of France, except for the appear
ance of French warship. The Bour-
bon and the Napoleonic brigs drew so
close together that Napoleon ordered his
the captain put on a guileless front and
hailed the passing man-of-war through
a speaking trumpet.
AND how d, the great MANI" the
''Wonderfuiiy we'll the captain of the
Inconstant replied at the suggestion Of
the great man who sat at his elbow
Thereupon the two ships dipped their
flags and went each it's way.
The shore of France.
On the fourth day while the early aft
ernoon sun was glowing on the terraced
gardens OF the French shore and glisten-
ing on the still snowy peaks Of the Mari
time Alps, Napoleon sailed into the wide
Gulf Juan. On one side of the bay he
saw the Island of Marguerite, and as he
glanced at its castle walls in their mel
ancholy beauty rising from the waters
of the Prisoner in the Iron Mask, who
has left his mystery clinging to them
forever. Across the bay on the other
called % to hiss his recoIlectIon q % another r pTiss
oner-himself, for there in the old gray
fort he had sat in the shadow OF the
guillotine after the fall Of Robesplerre.
How often the voyage Of his life had
brought him to that beautiful Riviera;
how often the tide in, his affairs had
borne him in and out Of It's lovely har-
borsi In the west was Toulon, whittier
he had come an exile from Corsica -enly
two and twenty years before. where he
fought his first battle and whence he
embarked for Egypt Only around the
mountainous headland to his left was
the port of Frejus. where he had been
welcomed home from the Orient and
where he had entered upon his Ethan
banishment. Beyond the Antibean Cape
on his right lay Nice, where he had
taken command of the army of Italy
and farther along was Savona. out Of
which the Little Corporal sped in the
night to burst into fame on the heights
Of Montenotte.
On no other stage had he so often as
tonished the world. Now he was about
to eclipse all the surprises that had gone
establishment Of the people" as Ae said.
to save him from the logical Nconse-
quences Of perhaps the rashest act in
history. Men viii form a thousand
projects" he calculated as he foresaw
the confusion he was about to spread
throughout France, but they viii come
to no decision
The Landing.
The traveller along the vilia-lined ave-
nue. from Cannes 10 Nice sees In the
shade of "a tree by the roadside a sim
pie shaft OF stone rising to tell no other
story than this: