prefer to meet me upon the editorial page, or in the Bois de
Boulogne?" Among those who met him in the Bois were Aurelien
Scholl, H. Lavenbryon, M. Taine, M. de Cyon, Philippe Du Bois,
Jean Moreas.

In 1888, either because, his patron the Count de Chambord having
died, there was no more money to pay the fines, or because the
patience of the government was exhausted, _Triboulet_ ceased to
exist, and Harden-Hickey, claiming the paper had been suppressed
and he himself exiled, crossed to London.

From there he embarked upon a voyage around the world, which
lasted two years, and in the course of which he discovered the
island kingdom of which he was to be the first and last king.
Previous to his departure, having been divorced from the Countess
de Saint-Pery, he placed his boy and girl in the care of a
fellow-journalist and very dear friend, the Count de la Boissiere, of
whom later we shall hear more.

Harden-Hickey started around the world on the _Astoria_, a British
merchant vessel bound for India by way of Cape Horn, Captain
Jackson commanding.

When off the coast of Brazil the ship touched at the uninhabited
island of Trinidad. Historians of James the First say that it was
through stress of weather that the _Astoria_ was driven to seek
refuge there, but as, for six months of the year, to make a landing
on the island is almost impossible, and as at any time, under stress
of weather, Trinidad would be a place to avoid, it is more likely
Jackson put in to replenish his water-casks, or to obtain a supply of