When my emperor and his son come back, we shall be amazed that we ever believed them dead!" "But he disappeared--the emperor disappeared--he vanished," persisted the scholar.
[Illustration: "_Your Emperor was banished to a rock"-- The Exiled Emperor (From the Painting by W Q Orchardson, entitled "Napoleon on board the Bellerophon_.")] "Yes; he disappeared," the veteran admitted.

"For after that came the Russian Campaign.

Ah, but it was a cold one! Such snow, such ice; so cold, so cold! It was then I lost my eye.

My leg I left at Austerlitz, my arm at Jena; my eye I dropped somewhere in the Beresina,--so much the better.

I could not see that freeze-out.