Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-04-09
Take me-for the love OF God!''

Take me-for the love or Goo
Joseph still hesitated.
Take me. It's for victory! It's for
France!"
In the absence of orders to the con-
trary," Joseph says, Il did as the Old
man requested. | carried him fifteen
kilometers to the northeast, and there
left him at the crossroads of Mes
signy, which was well within our
| lines"
! There will be occasion to quote Jo-
seph again, little later on: but be-
tween the time at which he stops and
/ the time at which he begins again
| there is a hiatus of several hours.
They were hours of lurid warfare
for the most part.
Then there came lull, with noise
| and glare of battle rolling off to the
eastward like a retreating thunder
storm
1 The allied army, in this part of the
field, occupied the segment of vast
amphitheater, where the hills sloped
gently down to wide valley.
The lull strangely deepened. Some
| thing was about to happen. The in
tuition, or telepathy, that sheds com.
mon feeling through vast masses OF
men was at work. Nerves strained,
muscles quivered, lungs labored, and
every pair of eyes that had that black
silhouette Of a ridge against the red
background in range was staring in
that on-ready-ready for no
one knew what
Then a single figure appeared.
It appeared out there on the ridge
all alone--a short, stout figure in q
long cloak and bicorne hat, majestic,
calm-the figure Of Napoleon. It haf
come out Of the night. 1t had been
/ conjured up by the cannon.
The word spread faltering, yet
rapid, from post to post and trench to
| trench.
| Napoleon!
1t came first from the noncommis.
stoned officers, the sergeants and the
corporals who were cheek by jowl
with their men, and who stared
! through their binoculars, transixed.
Then it was seen that the higher Off
GERS were staring, too.
| There were audible cries:
| "The emperor"
| tits Napoleon!"
| He's come to lead us!"
| The culver, the thrill, was contagi.
GUS. 1t spread from company to COM
pany, from regiment to regiment, from
| corps to corps. 1t revivifed hope,
| glorified courage, gave an almost SUI
| perhuman sense of confidence and
power.
| Then there was the rush of an aerial
express train and shock of binding
| thunder, as the enemy resumed the
bombardment.
| Over the ridge where the figure OF
the emperor had appeared there came
huge flash and rolling billow OF
smoke, then darkness, then the quaver
of fame again, brighter than ever
where the weeds and brush had caught
fire.
He was still there!
| There was a rolling cheer.
| AS he was before, he was now
| leisurely, calm, commanding.
| He turned to face the long French
lines. Then, while the shrapnel burst
| overhead like rockets, and geysers of
fire disgorged where other shells
struck the ground, they saw him lift
his hand in gesture that was both
salute and benediction. Again the
| thunder-clouds of smoke and fire had
hidden him.
/ But the army was inspired, was
straining now in frenzied eagerness.
| There came shrilling blast of bugles
| for miles and miles, an infinite, food.
| ing roar of cheers, and down the
/ slopes and out across the valley to-
ward the ridge, and on, and on, and
on, corps after corps of exalted hearts
| and reaching bayonets.
The army that had seen Napoleon
was driving the enemy back from
| Paris.
! Let us take up the narrative of 10
seph Dubois again.
He reports how he had followed the
! advance of the allies almost to this
new outposts they had thrown out
and how, while the army was still hurl
| ing itself forward, he was constrained
to return to Paris with dispatches.
| He came to the ridge just beyond
| the burning hamlet of name deleted
by the censor) and there he found an
old man, dressed like Napoleon"
| lying grievously wounded by the road
| 1T was the same old man had car
ried forward in the night" says 10
seph. This time he was wearing {
bicorne hat and long cloak; but
from the silver plate on his neck. /
knew him for my invalid. So asked
him if he wanted anything, and he
said:
| Il desire-that my ashes-banks of
the Seine-this French people have
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