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Updated: June 27, 2025
You will be able to find me again." Just as Madame d'Espard was about to address her cousin, the mysterious mask came between her and the Duke to whisper in her ear: "Lucien loves you; he wrote the note. Your Prefet is his greatest foe; how can he speak in his presence?" The stranger moved off, leaving Madame d'Espard a prey to a double surprise.
Of course, in my capacity of Prefet, I have no small influence in my department in support of a Government candidate. But I do not think that the Imperial Government could, at this time especially, in which it must be very cautious in selecting its candidates, be induced to recommend you.
Next, the people does not confine itself to electing its administrators, it watches and spies on them, keeps them in leading strings, and just as the popular representatives dictate to ministers the details of government, so also they dictate to administrators the details of administration. A préfet, a procureur-général, an engineer-in-chief under democratic rule is a much harassed man.
Do not be out of heart. In the first place, the Prefet will not hold his appointment much longer; the times are big with revolution, and revolutions make good fishing for us." A peculiar whistle was just then heard in the street. "That is Contenson," said Peyrade, who put a light in the window, "and he has something to say that concerns me."
"Thank you, Monsieur le Préfet." And he left the house. An inconceivable thing had happened. Don Luis was free. Half an hour's conversation had given him the power of acting and of fighting the decisive battle. He went off at a run. At the Trocadéro he jumped into a taxi. "Go to Issy-les-Moulineaux!" he cried. "Full speed! Forty francs!"
He took shape in their imaginations. They waited for him to arrive. Twice Don Luis had turned to the door and listened. And his action did more than anything else to conjure up the image of the man who was coming. M. Desmalions said: "Whether he acted in person or caused others to act, the law, once it has hold of him, will know how to " "The law will find it no easy matter, Monsieur le Préfet!
"I positively insist," said Don Luis, "that Monsieur le Préfet de Police shall stay and hear what I have to say. He is better able than any one else to appreciate the value of it; and he will bear witness to its correctness in certain particulars." "Speak!" said Valenglay. His curiosity knew no bounds. He did not much care whether Don Luis's proposal could have any practical results.
About half-way down the avenue we heard a few cries of "Vive la Russie," and then came a burst of cheers. Our dinner was rather pleasant that evening. We had the Préfet, M. Sebline; Senator of the Aisne, Jusserand, present Ambassador to Washington; Mme. Thénard, of the Comédie Française, and several young people.
It is not necessary to read the whole of it; but it contains the unprecedented fact that Private Perenna, in the space of two years' time, received the military medal, received the Legion of Honour for exceptional services, and was mentioned fourteen times in dispatches. I will pick out a detail here and there." "Monsieur le Préfet, I beg of you," protested Don Luis.
M. Desmalions arrived and, while watching the prisoner's face, talked in a low voice with the deputy chief and received the particulars of the arrest. "This is good business," he said. "We wanted this. Now that both accomplices are in custody, they will have to speak; and everything will be cleared up. So there was no resistance?" "None at all, Monsieur le Préfet."
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