Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-31

mental stress, as she and ;hree very diff
ferent men had seen it.
Instead of making cause with her, how
! ever, / said, over and over-"Marie-
! Therese! arie-Thereser'-lilIe a home
sick boy come again to some familiar
presence. You are the only one of my
family / have seen since waking, except
| Louis Philippe
Don't speak of that man. Louis
detest the house of Orleans as a Chris
tian should detest only sin! His father
doomed ours to death!'
"But he is not to blame for what his
, father did"
What do you mean by waking?"
Coming to my senses"
'All that we shall hear about when the
King sees you"
| Il knew your picture on the snuffboX.
"What snuffbox2"
THE one in the Queens jewel case"
| do you remember the Marquis du
| Plessy?"
Yes. A lukewarm loyalist, if loyalist
| at all in these times"
| My best friend"
Il will say for him that he was not
| among the first emigres. If the first
| emigres had stayed at home and helped
! their King they might have prevented
the Terror"
1.-THE Marquis du Plessy stayed after
| the Tuileries was sacked. lie found the
| Queens jewel case and saved it from
coniscation to the State"
Where did he find it? Did you recog
nize the faces?"
"Oh, Instantly"
The door opened, deferring any story,
| for that noble usher who had brought
me TO the presence of Marie-Thcrcse,
| stood there, ready to conduct us to the
| King.
My sister rose and 1 led her by the
| hand she going, confidently, to return
| the dauphin ito his family, and the
dauphin going like a fool Seeing Skene-
donk standing by the door, I must stop
! and fit the key to the lock of the Queens
| casket and throw the lid back to show
! her proofs given me by one who believed
| in me in spite of himself The snuffbox
! and two bags of coin We're gone, | saw
with CONSERVATION, but the princess rec
| ognzed so many thaings that she missed
nothing. controlling herself as her touch
| moved from trinket to trinket that her
mother had worn.
Bring this before the King" she said.
And we took it with us, the noble, in blue
| coat and red collar, carrying it,
| His Majesty" Marie-Therese told me,
as we passed along the corridor tries
to preserve the etiquette OF a court in
| our exile"
But we are paupers, Louis. And mock
ing our poverty, Bonaparte makes over
lures to him TO sell the right of the
| Bourbons to the throne of France!"
| She had not yet adjusted her mind to
the fact that Louis XVIII was no longer
the one to be treated with by Bonaparte
or any other potentate, and the pretender
leading her smiled like the boy of 20 that
| he was.
Napoleon can have no peace while a
Bourbon in the line of succession lives"
"oh. remember the Duke d'Enghieng'
she whispered.
Then the door of lofty but narrow
cabinet. lighted with many candles, was
| opened, and l saw at the farther end a
portly gentleman seated in an armchair.
| A few gentlemen and two ladies in wait
ing beside Mademoselle de Choisy, at
tended.
Louis XVIII rose from his seat as my
sister made a deep obeisance to him, and
took her hand and kissed 1t. At once,
moved by some singular maternal im>
pulse, perhaps, for she was half a dozen
years my senior as a mother would
whimsically decorate her child, MARIE
Therese took the half circlet of gems
from the casket reached up, and set Il
on my head.
For an instant I was crowned in Nit
tau. with my mothers tiara.
1 saw the kings features turn to gran.
ite. and a dark-red stain show on his
Jaws like coloring on stone. The most
benevolent men, and by all his traits he
was one of the most benevolent, have
their pitiless moments. He must have
been prepared TO combat a pretender be-
fore / entered the room. But outraged
majesty would now take it's full ven
Reance on me for the unconsidered act
of the child he loved
First, two peasants, Hervagault and
Bruneau, neither Of whom had the au-
dacity to steal into the confidence OF the
tenderest princess in Europe with the
tokens she must recognize, or to penetrate
into the presence" spoke the king: land
now an escaped convict from ST. Pelagie
a dandy from the Empire"
/ was only 20 and he stung me
Your royal highness." / said, speakinp
as l believed within my rights. my sis
ter tries 10 put good front on my in
trusion into Mittau."
/ took the coronet from my head and
gave Il again TO the hand which had
crowned me. Marie-Therese let Il fall
and Il rocked near the feet of the king
"Your sister. monsieur What right have
you to call Madame d'Angouleme yoIl
sister,"
'The same right, monsieur. that YOU
have TO call her your niece"
The features OF the princess becam,
pinched and sharpened under the softnesl
Sire. II this is not my brother. who Il
her"
Louis XVIII may have been tender I,
her every other moment Of his life, bu
he was hard then, and looked beyond he
toward the door. making a sign with hi
hand
That strange sympathy which works Il
me for my opponent put his outraged dig
nifty before me rather than my owl
wrong. Deeper, more sickenlng thai
death. the frst faintness OF self-distrus
! came over me. What " my half-mem
; ories were unfounded hallucinatiOns
What II my friend. Louis Philippe. hal
; made a tool Of me, 70 annoy this olde
Bourbon branch that detested him2 Wha
, II bellenger's recognition. and the Mar
! Quis du fiessys, ana Marie -Therese''