Unfortunately, the general was not with him at St.Helena; he would have been one more to console him; but they would not allow him to go.

Then, exasperated, like so many others, against the Bourbons, the general engaged in a conspiracy to recall the son of the Emperor.

He relied especially on one regiment, nearly all composed of his old soldiers, and he went down to a place in Picardy, where they were then in garrison; but the conspiracy had already been divulged.

Arrested the moment of his arrival, the general was taken before the colonel of the regiment.

And this colonel," said the soldier, after a brief pause, "who do you think it was again?
Bah! it would be too long to tell you all, and would only make you more sad; but it was a man whom your father had many reasons to hate.