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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 74

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I. Here is some-thing wrong, gentlemen. This is an escapedprisoner. Arrest him, and I will go for theMinister of Police. With that the runawaytried to pull his pistol. We jumped at him and pinned him down. An escaped lunatic ? askedDoucet the adjutant, as he sat on the fallengeneral. But the decree… … STAND BACK, SIRS. HE CRIED. THIS IS THE APARTMENT OF THE EMPRESS!(SEE PAGE 59O.) dow. A trick ! a trick ! he cried. The Em-peror is not dead. To your barracks, soldiers!You have been duped by a lunatic ! That isall there is to it. The plot is discovered. Thescare is over. Malet is in La Force, and…

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