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My Adventure At Soissons
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beg you, let him have his order.”-
"Or perhaps," I went on to the
The reply was that the contents con-commandant, you would prefer me sisted of two hundred pounds, and to rake up two or three friends ao with this information I returned to that we are four on each side?"
Yes, monsieur," the commandant the commandant. “As before, the
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aentry let me pasa unquestioned: replied. The commandant had been joined by
"Very well, M. le Vicomte," I said. the lieutenant of police and the "But beware-I am relying upon Lieutenant-Colonel of the Engineers, your word of honour not to move The other officer was also present; a single step."
I don't know who he was,
BRITISHER ROBBED tion."
IN FRANCE
The commandant and the other
"It is all over, madame," I said. to the commandant's wife; and, turning to the officers, I added, "Messieurs, expect me back in five minutes."
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"I have sent for my colleagues," officers gave their word. and I un- the commandant said in a Jeering cocked my pistols. tone as I entered. "You can tell them the object of your mission."
"Merely question of transferring powder from here to Paris I said. *And. M. de Vicomte, you are badly
I left the office, out I had no iden informed-the magazine contains
where I was to find the supporters two hundred pounds of powder."
"That has nothing to do with it,"co make the numbers equal on both nid the commandant. "The point sides. In the street, however, I saw Is that you come to a military town dutin and a friend of his, Moreau, with a garrison of night hundred and I signalled to them to come into men to scize our supplies. Suppose the courtyard and take up a position we refuse-have you a force to take outside the window of the comman. dant's room. Then returned to ity"
The parolet "I mean to take It." I said, "and, face M. de Linieres.
the once again. I ask for your authorisa-had been strictly kept and
officers had not stirred.
"Be good enough to inform M. le "And you think, M. Dumas, that you can make me sign such an or-Commandant." I said through the der? Perhaps you have noticed window to Hutin and Moreau, "that you will fire immediately if the or- that there are four of us?" manded the door and I had also pre signed 7"
Hutin and Moreau pointed their pared the double locks of my pistola. I drew them out quickly and pointed runs.
said "Enough, monsieur,"
the the muzzles at the others.
"Messieurs," I said, "unless the commandant. "I am ready to sign." In a few moments I had the re order is aigned within five seconds, The generosity of French vilingers will blow out your brains. As M. uired authorisation signed by M. It empowered me to 4,000 23rd June Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, has rescued a 23-year-old English-le Vicomte has pointed out, you are de Linieres.
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bury from an awkward predicament I was deadly pale, but nevertheless magazine, and I needed Bombay, Marseilles & London. 7th July Bombay, Marseilles. Havro, London after he had been attacked and my face showed that I meant to more.
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the interval between leaving homed "three", there was an interrup dayor. When he saw my authori- A side-door was flung open tation, the Mayor accompanied me and taking up a post in an electrical Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & work in Cairo.
nd the wife of M. de Linieres burst to the magazine without question, Rull.
A mon from whom Mr. Lippes to the room.
was and nothing could have been more Her terror
legal than the proceedings when, in Bombay, Marseilles & London.
asked the way outside Bessines re-apparent. plied by selling upon him and rob-1 "Dearest, give in to him!". she the presence of the Mayor, and by bing him of his pocketbook with zried. "It is another rising of the virtue of the order signed by the commandant, I called upon the 550 francs (£7).
blacks!" The unconscious Englishman was
**Monsieur", said the comman-guards to open up the magazine.
It contained less than two hun- later found by motorists who took dant, "respect for my wife—” him into the village.
"Monsieur"; I interrupted, no-less dred pounds of powder. I was get- Realising the difficulty of his politely, "I have the greatest respect ting ready to arrange for its trans- aftuation the villagers made a col-for Madame, but I have a sister and portation when the Mayor claimed lection to help him on his way and mother. Have the kindness to send the powder for the defence of the the municipality advanced him
Madame from the room so that we town. That was not unreasonable, arms and embraced me--he could at certain sum and paid for his hotel an fight this question between but I had not come too far and gone.east do that.
through so mach in order to be stop-| And the powder which Bard and bill for two days until he was suß-
Hutin and I had fetched twenty-four ciently recovered to proceed.
"Dearest, dearest." Madame de ped at the last by the Mayor. Mr. Lippey has now left to see Linieres continued to implore, gaz- was therefore on the point of reply-eagues from a garrison town with Well, it the British Consul at Bordeaux.
ing at me with terrified eyes all the ing that I could not admit the claim right hundred soldiers? "We are happy to have done what while, "do what he asks-1 beg you, when one of the soldiers whispered turned out not to be used by the Re- we could," one of the village officials
do what he asks. Remember the to me that a storehouse in the town Jublicans. For, during my absence, told Reuter-Reuter.
massacre of my father and mother contained, no less than three thou-chings had moved quickly in Paris.
sand pounds.
The conservative elements had de- by the negroes in St. Domingo!" FORTUNE FOLLOWS
I told the Mayor that if I found, crded to try another king and the When Madame de Linieres had SUICIDE ATTEMPT. cried that it was "another rising of three thousand pounds, he was wel-Republic we had fought to establish theoy our struggle in 1830 had vanish- the blacks," I had not understood come to the total contents of
The arid, windswept Husab But now I did powder magazine, and hurried to ed. The Duke of Orleans had been
"In plateau of the Namid Desert hos Poverty-Stricken Barber what she meant.
understand. She thought that the keeper of the storehouse. That invited to ascend the throne. Wins £4,000. was a negro, from my fuzzy hair, individual, however, would not give]vited" is hardly the right word-an
with my complexion burat black by up the key, so it was necessary to ultimatum had been issued to him. been the scene of another desert three days in the sun, and my alight-leave him locked in his house and The crown or a passport," he had tragedy. Here the gruesome re- With gain entrance to the storehouse our-been told; and as the Duke of Or-mains of thirst-stricken Euro- and ly. Creole method of speech. Because he was bard 00 lonely a Lisbon barber flung him- the recoollection of the murder of selves. After doing everything we leans did not care for exile and did peans have been found. Iself into the River Tagus.
her parents by the negroes, she was had to break down the door with like to think of himself as King of The Husab, which forms
France, he chose to reign under thei
peninsula above the confluence of from overcome with fear. The situation axeD,
We found the three thousand name of Louis-Philippe. n gunboat anchored nearby, For was so strained that it could hot be
pounds and arranged for a wagon Paris had known me as a drama-the rivers Khan and Swakop, is two days he lay in hospital uncon-prolonged.
"How can I give in to one man?" to carry it back to Paris for the use tist, but the news of my adventure totally uninhabited. It is also acious.
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The ticket won £4,000,
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Swakopmund (South-west
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&
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"Would you like me to sign a docu-citement and I slept most of the way as a man of action. The new king, ment saying that you wrote the or-back to Paris. At nine o'clock next who was well aware of my activities sent, when pools are formed and dor at the point of my pistol?" I morning, I presented myself to in the theatre, had learned of my the Khan and Swakop are in General La Fayette. He had lost expedition and summoned me to him. spate in their conyon-like depths, Barbers have recently won big said.
"Yes, yes, yelled Madame de his voice and could not speak a word "Monsieur Dumas," he said, you 500 feet below the surrounding prizes in French and Spanish Lot-
But he held out his have produced your best drama!" terles also.-Reuter.
Linieres. "Dearest, do give in. Iof welcome.
Dillinger's Progress from Babe to "Public Enemy No. 1”
drsolation.
Except for lone prospectors or a scientist in search of strange desert plants, the place is almost taboo, but on the occasion of the discovery of the human remains two motorists, taking a short cut back to 'Swakop from the up- lands, came suddenly neroes, the relics lying among some stunt led bushes, d
On Investigation these two well-known Swakopmund men, Messrs. Baumgart and Dusch, found parts of the bleached skelë. tons of two human beings, also a fully packed rucksack, two nest ly rolled: blankets, shorts, shirts, shoes and vest, but no name or papers except for the maker's name, Beyl, in the neck of the, undervest. On the matter being reported to the authorities it was recalled two native herds, on driving cattle across country & short while ago, not far from the Husab, came across a shoet: of corrugated Iron lying in the desert under which they found the corpse of a white man. Beuter