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Show HOW LAVALETTE WAS SAVED. English Officer Preserved Lite of One-Time One-Time Foe. On the escape of Napoleon from Llb.i one of tho generalH who rejoined him was the brnve Gen. Iavnlette, a soldier of great distinction. When Napoleon was defeated Gen. Lava-lotto Lava-lotto was taken prisoner and barbarously barbar-ously sentenced to death as a traitor. Anil as a traitor he would havo 'betjii executed wero It not fur Capt. Hely-Ilutchinbou Hely-Ilutchinbou and two other lCngllsh sol-tilers, sol-tilers, one of them being Gen. Wilson. Gen. 1-nvalt'tto was In prison on the night beforo tho morning appointed for the execution, when he was visited by Ids wife, daughter and n mnld. After au affecting Interview In the Mil. tho general's wife, apparently, was led forth by her maid In an almost al-most fainting condition. Hut It was really Uivalette himself, who had donned don-ned his wife's clothes. Ho was taken hurriedly to the quarters of Hely-Hutchinson Hely-Hutchinson nnd his chivalrous co-con-iplrntors, nnd h.avlug been dresfed In the uniform of nn English otllcer, he drove boldly out of Paris and was spoedllj across the frontier. |