The Washington herald., 1914-04-12

was kept between them. He hattered
himself he could share with him even
exclaimed. You also Will be immortal" !"
How. General?'' the friend asked.
| Are you not my secretary
| Poor Bourrienne could not content him
loving what his chief despised. money,
he yielded to the one sin Napoleon al
ways refused to compound in his own
immediate household. Il bet II shut
First Consul said to Corvisart, the physi-
clan. he would eventually find silver
| mine there"
| Napoleon could not bear to break the
tie that had bound him so long to his
old school-fellow, and repeatedly quar-
| relied with him. only to take him back
into his confidence. When at last a case
in court disclosed the secretary of the
first consul as a partner OF government
contractors and his avarice thus be-
came public scandal. Napoleon dis
| the door in his face, Never let me see
you again.
"why! he grieved to Meneval. the as
| sistant who now took the place OF the
unfaithful secretary, have known that
| man since he was nine years old" Still
| wishing to spare him the full measure
Of disgrace, he officially announced that
Bourrienne had been promoted to other
duties. and, indeed, il was not long until
he did find employment for him. But he
would not see him. and they never met
again except on one occasion. when Bour
rienne was summoned to receive his COM
mission as Minister at Hamburg. where
| for many years he continued his pecula-
tons and ended by cOnspiring with the
Bourbons against his forebearing friend
and benefactor.
Trapping the Bourbons.
AS the plotting against Napoleon went
on, he and those about him were seized
with a frenzy of spying The watch on
the mails was redoubled until no one
dared to trust secret of any kind to
the post, while crafty fellows filled II
with letters designed to cast suspicion
on their enemies, or to create an impress
sion in the mind of the first consul IA
vorable to their own loyalty. The letter
openers were known as the black cab
met" and they forwarded to Napoleon
interest him.
Napoleon thenceforth did not for
moment take his eye off the ,Bourbons.
who never relented or rested in their
savage purpose to strike down the
man who stood in their way. While
the war between England and France
to spring their grand plot, there an
peared in London a man named Ia
Touche. He WA one Of the Terrorists
banished after the explosion of the
Internal machine. But he had been set
free by Napoleon on the condition that
he go to England and get into the
councils of the Bourbons as an escaped
prisoner seeking vengeance against
the first consul.
La Touche, who was a delightfm
specimen. at once went into conference
with the Royalists in London and with
certain too Jealous English officials.
Prof. John Holland Rose, of the Uni
versity of Cambridge. has found in his
researches among the official records
a list OF Royalist plotters who were in
the pay of the British government
Prof. Rose THINKS ii possible that only
the younger and hotter headed officials
may have connived at the plot, but he
adds that when all is said, the British
government must stand accused of one
OF the most heinous of crimes"
La Touche followed the threads of
the conspiracy from London to Munich.
where he found the British Embassy a
center of plotting. Other French spies
gained the confidence of the British
envoys at Vienna and Stuttgart, who
were found to be involved in the wide-
spread intrigue.
La Touche. however. scored tn.
greatest success. He received from
Francis Drake the Ambassador of
Great Britain at Munich. sum>of