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Updated: May 15, 2025
The grilles were closed as before, but the sentry's face, luckily, was strange to me. "Open! open!" I shouted, breathless. "I must see M. le Duc!" "Who are you?" he demanded, staring. "My name is Broux. I have news for M. le Duc. Let me in. It is a matter of life and death." "Why, I suppose, then, I must let you in," that good fellow answered, drawing back the bolts. "But you must wait here till "
You found yourself in an electrically lighted world of passages built in flashing steel, with floors of steel and ceilings of steel a world where the temperature was always 65°. Every passage was separated from every other passage by steel grilles, and at intervals uniformed and gigantic officials wandered about with impassive, haughty faces faces that indicated a sublime confidence in the safety of the multifarious riches committed to their care.
For, on such summer nights, under the red moon, an exodus from the East Side peoples the noble avenue with dingy spectres who shuffle along the gilded grilles and still façades of stone, up and down, to and fro, in quest of God knows what of air perhaps, perhaps of happiness, or of something even vaguer.
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