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Lastly, Erik relied on the Persian, as soon as he received the promised relics and papers, to inform the young couple of his death and to advertise it in the EPOQUE. That was all. The Persian saw Erik to the door of his flat, and Darius helped him down to the street. A cab was waiting for him.
"Excuse me, gentlemen, this compartment is reserved." "I am a journalist, Monsieur, engaged on the 'Epoque," said my young friend with a great show of gesture and politeness, "and I have a word or two to say to Monsieur de Marquet." "Monsieur is very much engaged with the inquiry he has in hand." "Ah! his inquiry, pray believe me, is absolutely a matter of indifference to me.
The ordinary trains were so full that special trains had to be made up. The article in the "Epoque" had so excited the populace that discussion was rife everywhere even to the verge of blows. Partisans of Rouletabille fought with the supporters of Frederic Larsan.
"Your father has been appointed editor of the Epoque," she said abruptly. "Yes," answered Clotilde tranquilly, "master told me so; it was in the paper." With an anxious and attentive expression, Felicite looked at her, for this appointment of Saccard, this rallying to the republic, was something of vast significance.
D'Hericault's admirable MEMOIR, prefixed to his edition of Charles's works, vol. i. p. xi. Vallet de Viriville, CHARLES VII. ET SON EPOQUE, ii. 428, note 2. See Lecoy de la Marche, LE ROI RENE, i. 167. Vallet, CHARLES VII, ii. 85, 86, note 2. Champollion-Figeac, 193-198. Champollion-Figeac, 209.
"What is it?" asked the Chief. "It's the card of a young reporter engaged on the 'Epoque, a Monsieur Joseph Rouletabille. It has these words written on it: 'One of the motives of the crime was robbery." The Chief smiled. "Ah, young Rouletabille I've heard of him he is considered rather clever. Let him come in." Monsieur Joseph Rouletabille was allowed to enter.
Moreover, he knew how keenly interested I was in his journalistic adventures in general and, above all, in the murder at the Glandier. I had not heard from him for a week, nor of the progress made with that mysterious case, except by the innumerable paragraphs in the newspapers and by the very brief notes of Rouletabille in the "Epoque."
'It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging. 'Ah, yes.... But I had rather gathered from the preface to "Negations" that you were a a Catholic. 'Je l'etais a cette epoque. Perhaps I still am. Yes, I'm a Catholic Diabolist. This profession he made in an almost cursory tone.
"A cette epoque nous eprouvions les effets les plus singuliers du mirage; tantot les terres les plus uniformes et les plus basses nous paroissoient portees au dessus des eaux, et profondement dechirrees dans toutes leurs parties; tantot leurs cretes superieures sembloient renversees, et reposer ainsi sur les vagues; a chaque instant on croyoit voir au large de longues chaines de recifs, et de brisans qui sembloient se reculer a mesure qu'on s'en approchoit davantage."
At the time of the affair of the woman cut in pieces in the Rue Oberskampf another forgotten story he had taken to one of the editors of the "Epoque," a paper then rivalling the "Matin" for information, the left foot, which was missing from the basket in which the gruesome remains were discovered.
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