Year: 1864

ana 0eSlreO 70 DC the founder OF new
empire.


How we'll her instincts told her that th.


time was rapidly approaching when tha
ambition would make him put her away
Then came the close Of the campaign OF
1909, and she saw that the hour was fas
approachire still nearer that was to seal
both their rates. There was no longer the
confidence of the past between them; DC
longer the seeking OF sympathy and ad
vice.


1t was on the Goth of Nov ember, 1909.
and the court was especially gay in honor
of the King Of Saxony. Josephine sat at
the window of her boudoir, looking out
upon the river when she heard a step at
the door, and rose to receive Napoleon
who caught her in his arms, with more of
the Olden time embrace than she had known
for months. She led him to the sofa on
which she had been sitting and seated
herself by his side. For few moments
there was silence, and he spoke.


Josephine, you have been weeping are
you unhappy"


"NO, sire. not with you"
Nonsense. Josephine, who do you call
sire! Of late you are making these forms
overshadow all our happiness"


'Then, why should they not be forgotten
by both? You have now reached that
point of ambition that should content you
Will you turn the unquiet God from your
bosom and own our own happiness.


"YOu misunderstood me. lady," he said
quickly rising from his seat and leaning
against the window 81 m seeking nothing
for myself, but everything for France"


ct is for France, Napoleon" she said,
drawing close to his side and taking his
hand in hers, "that you would put away
from you, not only true wife but true
friend. Think not that I have been
blind, sire, to this. My alarmed heart has
told me all, and believe me that am of.
fering no protest to your will, but oh,
sire !! examine we'll your heart before you
act"


He stood silent while she was speaking,
and then, with face turned full upon the
streaming moonlight, he drew away his
hands She went on:


"And, oh sire. believe me, that though
am to leave your throne and your side, /
shall never cease to love you too deeply
for my peace. Therefore it is that plead
that you will look we'll into your heart
before you yield your future to bad coun-
sells"


lie drew quickly from the window and
then walked forward tc the centre of the
room.


You cannot sympathize with me, mad
am, act only with reason. The good of
the individual must yield to the good of
France. Farewell -


Stop said she, and Josephine STEP
ped quickly across the room and caught
his arm drawing him as she did SO again
to the window. ''Do YOU see that starr"
and she pointed at one that shone with
marked brightness. "That is my destiny.
BY II you have risen. To me it prom
ised a throne Through me you have ac-
complished it; part from ME and you fall.
les, fall to die in sorrow, neglect, and eI-
lie. Remember this, Napoleon, and re-
member these words when it is too late to
recall the act that no words of mine can
prevent"


Napoleon gazed almost in terror; at her
who stood like a prophecies gazing out with
eyes of fire upon the heavens, and then
with heart clouded almost to sickness, he
turned away and left the room without
word


Ten days passed before he had nerve to
strike the blow that broke the golden chain
that bound them, and from that moment,
as he afterwards confessed at st. Helena,
the fall of Napoleon began, till he died a
broken hearted exile upon an islam IN
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