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The people rose, several police-agents were massacred; the king avoided passing through the capital on his way from Versailles to the camp at Compiegne; the path he took in the Bois de Boulogne received the name of Revolt Road. "I have seen in my days," says D'Argenson, "a decrease in the respect and love of the people for the kingship." Decadence went on swiftly, and no wonder.
I had left Elma in the care of the Princess Zurloff, whom I knew would conceal her from the horde of police-agents now in search of her. The mystery had so increased until now it had become absolutely bewildering. The more I had tried to probe it, the more inexplicable had I found it.
And remember that I will admit of no excuse, and that you must not come and tell me afterwards, 'It isn't our fault, we can't see everybody that comes in, and all that sort of nonsense." He was speaking in that harsh and imperious tone of which police-agents have the secret, when they are addressing people who have, by their conduct, placed themselves under their dependence.
It is since these ten that you have had..." "What?" she demanded anxiously. "You know well the flooring." "Sh-h-h." She glanced at the door, watching the policeman statuesque before the setting sun. "No one knows that not even my husband." "So M. Koupriane told me. Then it is you who have arranged for these ten police-agents?" "Certainly."
One night she came to me livid with fright. She supposed herself gravely compromised, and begged me to hide her. For four days she remained with me. On the fifth, just as we were sitting down to dinner, my room was invaded by a number of police-agents, who showed us an order of arrest, and commanded us to follow them. "My friend sank down upon a chair, stupid with fright.
That Koupriane makes himself important with his police-agents and obsesses us all. I am convinced that the affair of the bouquet was the work of his police." "Mademoiselle," said Rouletabille, "I have just had them all sent away, all of them because I think very much the same as you do." "Well, then, you will be my friend, Monsieur Rouletabille I promise you, since you have done that.
And without a shadow of hesitation, for it seems to be the privilege of police-agents to be at home everywhere, he crossed the parlor, and reached Mlle. Gilberte's room just as she was withdrawing from the window. "Ah, it is that way he escaped!" he exclaimed.
To see him fall at my feet, struck down just when I Who is there?" he cried suddenly, in answer to a knock at the door. "Open, in the name of the law!" "The police here already! What shall I do?" "Open at once, or we shall force the door." The young man slowly drew back the bolt and admitted the two police-agents. "M. Gascoigne? You will not answer to your name? That is equal we arrest you."
The police-agents, one on each side of him, took him to a rather large but dirty, squalid-looking room, which might have been part of an old-clothes shop. All round, hanging from pegs, each neatly ticketed with its own number, were sets of garments, male and female, of every description: rags and velvets, a common blouse and good broadcloth, side by side.
It looks as though we're to have a bad thunderstorm, and, if so, we shall catch it up on the Col di Tenda!" Thus impelled, the quartette went back to the well-lit little building, where the beetle-browed driver again chaffed the police-agents, while the Customs officer placed his rubber stamp upon the paper, scribbled his initials and charged three-lire-twenty as fee.
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