The Washington times., 1920-07-12


story, vouchod for by the doctor him
se1f is more likely to be accepted by
history. According to this, the EN-.
press on the morning OF the fth found
herself utterly deserted by all her
friends and attendants save only
Nine. Lebreton. Tho two distracted
women fed from THE empty palace
halls into the street. A cab happened
TO be standing in front OF the grand
staircase. In this cab they jumped
and were driven to Or. Evans. They
remained all night in the doctors
house. On the morning OF September
8 the doctor drove them out Of Paris.
Relays had already been ordered by
telegraph at various stopping places
on the route. Th" fugitive reached
Deauville without discovery on the
evening OF the 9Th. -s.-.- $50. ..
USED BRITISH YACHT.
An English yacht. the Gszelle. was
| lying in tho harbor.. II was owned
and commanded by Sir John Bur-
goyne. DIR. Evans, after leaving the
ladies at a hotel. lost no time in call
! ing on Sir John. The latter was at
| first incrcdulous and s@ore that lie
| would not be made the victim OF
Yankee hoax. But Lady Burgoyne
was. more. easily convinced. She had
heard OF DR.. Thomas Evans as the
| famous American dentist in Paris,
who was patronizcd by the court.
She won over her husband. All ar
rangements were completed. Sir John
met the Empress aud her companions
on the quay at half-past il that night
and took them on board. Next morn
| ing anchor was weighed. On Thurs
day. the Sth. the yacht rode into the
harbor of Ryde, in the Isle OF Wight.
To the Empress ine4pressible COM
| fort she found that the Prince Impe-
rial had escaped after Sedan into Bel
gium and had arrived in Dover two
days previously. She met him. at
Hastings. Queen Victoria FASTENED to
express her sympathies for the-royal
fugitives, and eventually placed at
their disposal Camden House, in Chis-
elhurst Napoleon III, after his re-
lease from Wilhelmshohe, had joined
| them in March. 1871.
The life led in the Chiselhurst by
the three eXiles was monastic in it's
Iquietude and calm. Occasionally
| faithful friend or humble adherent OF
the Bonapartes would make his way
| into the shadowed household. But
gloom which nothing could dispel
| hung over the Emperor. Disease and
melancholy had marked him for their
own. His death. on January y, 1875,
came almost as a relief. ...
| Naturally the Empress found her
chief solace in the company OF. her
son, whom she loved with an inten-
sity that was often embarrassing to
| him. Prince Louis, as he was known
! in the household, was naturally
| high-spirited and joyous youth. He
was 80 young at the time of the
~, DR.. gtsln q s.
| asters in which he had himself par
! ticipatcd became more or less blurred
| with time. He had entered the Wool
| wich Academy in 1872 as gentleman
| cadet. At the final examination in
| February, 1875, he stood seventh in n
class of thirty-four. He might have
won honors in the British. army, but
| his claims as the heir of the Bona
parties forbade his taking the oath Of
! allegiance to the Queen.
IN sECLUsIoN.
For four years he had to bear en-
| forced inaction with what patience
he could at the gloomy old house in
| Chiselhurt. Rumors of his marriage,
| first to one Princess and then to an
other, were often current, the most
| persistent being that which linked his
name with the youngest sister OF the
| Princess of Wales, Princess Thyra,
now Duchess of Cumberland.
lie gained the reluctant consent OF
his mother in 1879 to join the British
| forces in an unofficial capacity He
and a body of soldiers under Lieuten-
! ant Carey we're surprised on June
| by a band OF Zulus in South Africa.
| Unable to mount his horse in time,
and abandoned by his companions, he
/ fell beneath the spears of the enemy.
| Every heart In Chrstendom heat in
sympathy with the bereaved mother.
Even republican France paid a sim
| cere tribute OF sorrow to le petit
prince. The Princess OF Wales has
, tened to the side of the Empress, who
Law unconscious in her desolata home
at Chisclhurst. Queen Victoria went
down from BalmorRl TO express sym
pathy with her afflicted friend.
on July 10, 1879, the remains OF tho
/ prince imperial were brought back to
! Chiselhurst. The funeral took place
! two days later In the little church
| from which his father also had been
| buried. The mourncrs were from all
the courts In Europe and from France.
Tho Prince OF Wales and his brothers
! acted as pallbcarcrs. Queen Victoria
spent the day with the empress.