The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

that the excess above the SONOO allow.
anCe should he met out OF Napoleon
own purse. he broke up his silver plate
and sent hundreds Of pounds of the frag
ments In baskets TO be sold at James
town.
The Party Breaking Up.
The governor went more directly al
what was perhaps the real object OF his
superIOrs in this agitation when he be
gan To arrest and deport the members
Of the l.nngwoOd household. First he
pounCed upon Iascar servant whom
he found there without his permission
and. seiZInE him 10y the throat. arrested
him and sent him away. Next. he
struck nearer Napoleon by, arrestinE
Las Cases on the charge OF having at
tempted to smuggle a letter out Of the
island and the count was depOrted
Finally he took away the prisoners ply
double dealing gave the governor the
desired preteNt. O'MeaTas successor.
Or. StOkOe, another surgeon in the Brit
ish navy. quickly fell under Napoleon s
spell and. arousInE the governors sUs-
piCiOn. he was Court-ma rtialed and dis
missed from the navy after ncar rly twenty
years service one Of the charges pre-
ferred against tho doctor was that N'
Bona partC' in his reports from the SILK
room, for now Napoleon was a painfully
sick man. and had designated him as
the patient
Meanwhile Gen. GourEaud. after ,ainly
trying to get M a duel with Montholon.
voluntarily sailed away to Europe. hut
with secret communication from Ma
Poleon in the sOles Of his boots The
Countess de MOnthoIOn also returned
home and before three years Of th' exile
had passed a fun half OF the little Long
wood colony had suCCumbed to hOmesiCk-
ness and gone away. The prisoner fan
Cied that in the end no one but Mar
chand. his valet would remain and he
said: You will read to me and you
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And so it might have fallen out had
he lived a little longer. For MOnthOlOn
keenly felt the absence Of his wife and
children. and he and the BertrandS were
both appealing for substitutes to relieve
them when happily death came to the
relief OF the exile himself.
Among all NapoleOns brother SOW
ereigns the only one to speak a word Of
pity was the one who had the most to
forgive. With Christian charity Plus
VII listened to the prayers Of the az
pealed to the prince regent OF England
and the allied mOnaTchs for the allevia-
ton Of the banished Emperor's hard lot
"Savona and Fontainebleau." Plus said
were but errors OF Judgment or Chi
meras Of human ambition. He no
longer possesses the means OF wrOnEinE
any one and We wish him to cause re-
The British government consented TO
send friendly physician and two priests
to attend the captive. and Cardinal
tommarchi and Fathers VignaT and
Buonavita But while Father Vignali
heard his confession and at the last
gave him the sacraments OF the church.
none OF the newcomers proved to he
agreeable companions for Napoleon. He
was indifferent to the simple priests and
could not give his confidence or his re-
speCt to the doctor
Drs. O'Meara and Stokoe had dag
nosed his ailment as a disease Of the
liver and he regarded himself as a VIC
tim Of the st. Helena climate. DR.. An
tommarchi, however, did not view the
symptoms with much gravity and ac-
tualfy Knocked the frightful sufHerinEs OF
his patient, which he fancied were only
simulated in the hope OF raininE the EyrI-
pathy OF the world and a return to Eu-
rope. When Napoleon told him OF the