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Show "niDE POIt YOUI1 LIPB." H Taar Paul waa alranglcd bccatito ho H was lliotight to bo n madman whono H mania wcro ton dangerou to bo borne. H Ilonapartc, who had entered Into nn H agreement with tho tsar, whereby the H two ruler should almuttancoudy In H vade llrltltti India, had the laeanncta H lo declare In tho Monlteur, (bo oRlclal H Journal of Prance, that the attln. H Hon had been planned by the Ktigllia. H A thrilling atory, nitoclatcd with tbo H pi. ttlon and llonaparte' declarrv tli ut told by the pott Tcnnytoa. H The poet' father, when a young man, H visited St. Petcraburg not Ions afior H the aisatilnatlon, and dined one day with Ixird fit Ilelcnt, the Ilrlllth win- M liter. At tho dinner table the young H man, having In mind Ilonaparte'i at H tempt lo mako the Kngllth government H rcapnntlble for the nuattlnitlon, alit H to Ixirtl Ht Helen, apcaklng acrota a H Ituulan gtietl: "It It perfectly well H known In Hngland who murdered tho H Hmperor Paul; It waa Count fio-aud. H A dead dlcnco fell on Ibe company, H Alter dinner Lord St. Helena called H young Tennytun atldo and (aid, "ltld H for your life from the cltyl The man H acrois whom you apoka to me I thai H Count 8o-nd-io, whom you accuted H ot murdarlog Krapror Paul." H The young nngllthman look horf M and rode for week through Ilula, tl H ho came to the Crimea, where bo fell IIV H lie became delirious, and rememberei H the wild people dancing round hi bed H with magical Incantations, Once In H every three month an Ungllih courlei H patted through the village, and aa ho H pasted ho blew a horn. It all depended H on Ihe young man'a hearing the born H whether ha could etcape from Hvalo. M for tin bad no money. In hi delirium, 1 he would atari up ogonticd teat ho had. M At laat the courier came, the horn M waa heard and tho courier agreed to M take the young Kngtlthman with him. M Ha waa a drunken fellow and dropped M all hi dlapatcbc on the road. HI ' M companion picked them up, but did M not tell the courier, until the man, bay- M lug become sober, wa In despair. Then H young Tenuyton gave tho dltpatchca to gBj tho courier, with a warning not to fief H drunk again. H At a frontier town they found Hi H gate doted and barred, beraute It H wa late In the night. "The Duke ot H YorWI' shouted the courier. Immedl H utely Ihe gate wcro thrown open, ami H the icnttnel tprong to attention ant H atulcd the young llrltlihcr. who, nt jH ter many adventurea, managed to reach H |