by no means mild in his reproaches. However, true Douglas as
she is, the old blood of Archibald Bell-the-cat boiled over, and the
princess Mary is reported to have read the serene family a famous
lecture. Matters went on in this way until the poor girl could stand
it no longer, and one fine day escaped from "jail," ran down to the
station and took the first train for Nice. A telegram was sent to
the gendarmerie at Nice to arrest her as soon as she got out of the
carriage. Accordingly, to her terror, when she put her foot on terra
firm a there stood two gendarmes ready to pounce upon her. It was,
however, no joke to arrest an imperial princess, for such Lady Mary
is by birth. The men hesitated, but not so the princess. Brought up
at Nice, she knew all the roads and bypaths of the place by heart.
Tucking up her petticoats, instead of going out by the ordinary exit
she made off as fast as her heels could carry her out of the station
to the fence which separates the lines from the road, climbed over it
and ran as swiftly as a hunted deer through the fields, pursued by
the two gendarmes, who, however, soon gave up the chase. Her Serene
Highness finally reached the Villa Arson, almost two miles distant,
terribly frightened and with her clothes pretty nearly torn off
her back. Here she found that noble-hearted and Christian woman her
mother, from whom she has never since separated. Nor has she yielded
up to her husband her little son, born soon after the flight from
Monaco. Vain have been the young man's attempts to induce her to
return to him, vain his appeals to the pope to use his influence, vain
even the threats of law. Last winter the prince induced the king
of Italy to permit an attempt to abduct the child from the princess
whilst she was staying in Florence with the grand duchess Marie of
Russia, but the guards of the imperial lady prevented the emissaries
of the Florentine syndic from even entering the palace, and the next
day the princess of Monaco fled with her child to Switzerland. What
the future developments of this singular affair will be time will
show. The husband seems determined not to yield, and has recently
employed the celebrated lawyer M. Grandperret as his counsel. It
is stated that undue influence of a malicious kind has been used to
prejudice both the duchess of Hamilton and her daughter against the
prince, but all who know the truly lofty mind of the duchess will be
sure that, although the reason for