The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

the wclI-mcaninE sailor my shark" but
he troubled him with few or no COM
plants.
The admiral with solemn humor re-
Piled to communication from Bertrand
in the nam OF the Emperor that he knew
Of no Emperor on the island and ad-
dressed him as Cen. Bonaparte. But Ma
pOleOn only lightly retorted: THE last
| heard Of Gen. Bonaparte he was at the
Pyramids and Mt Tabor" He prOfessed
to be only amused nv inc insistenCe OF
the British government on designating
him a general They might as well
call me archbishop" h" laughed, FOR |
was the head the church as well as
Of the army
Even as hc had captivated Admiral
FISHER. who took him TO EIha. and Capt.
Maitland. who took him to England. he
got along very well with Admiral Cock
burn and all the British officials in his
first half-NeaT at 81. Helena. He re-
ceived in the most affable manner many
dignitariPS or Great Britain who paused
the CaTe Of Good Hope. and he enter
tanned at dinner from time to time the
admiral. the governor. tn" colonel and
the lesser officers Of tn" regiment which
guarded him at l.OnGwOod.
Tightening the Chains.
While St Helena was not a paradise
without a serpent before the advent of
its new governor. Sir Hudson Lowe. in
April 1916 it quickly took on an unhappy
resemblance to a penal colony. For rea-
sons OF their own. the Tory ministers had
singled out this honest but narrow per-
son to he Napoleon's custodian and given
him a salary Of S6OO0O a year.
Coming directly from those who chose
him. presumably Sir Hudson brought
specific instructions to tighten and short
en- the chains OF the imperial prisoner.
He called for a reduction in the expenses
of the exiles household. and forbade him
Of a British soldier, or speak to any one
on the road except in the presence of a
guard.
Napoleon's instincts were aroused
against the governor the moment he
glanced at his unprepossessinG counte-
nance and looked into an eye that seemed
to him like the eye Of hysna caught
in a trap" As their interviews grew
stOrmier. Napoleon grew more and more
averse to exposing himself to those pro-
vocative encounters. and after their sixth
meeting. in August. he announced that
he would never i'm future receive the
though the two men continued, to dwell
on the same little speCk in the sea for
nearly five years more, no word ever
passed between them again.
Thenceforth Lowe inforced without
gloves the increasingly harsh orders
from London. He required every letter to
or from LOngwood to pass under his ex-
animation. He threatened by proclama-
tion to deport any white resident of st.
Helena who spoke or wrote to any one
at Longwood without his permission,
Wnlle any BLACK lnnaDltant committing
that offense should receive 100 lashes,
and he surrounded his prisoner Of state
with restraints unknown, in the convict
settlement of Botany Bay.
No evidence whatever has been found
that Napoleon ever gave a word Of en-
couragement or a thought TO any OF the
fantastic schemes for his escape from
St. Helena, where the sea and the noun
tains formed his double prison walls. He
could leave Longwood only by a cause
way twenty feet wide across deep ra-
vine, where half a dozen sentries could
stop him. and he could leave the island
itself only by embarklng at some one Of
the three or four natural hArbors on the
precipitous coast. where gunboats al
ways were on guard. Yet Lowe lined