Motion Picture Story Magazine (Aug 1912-Jan 1913)

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A BOGUS NAPOLEON 65 smile. One has the features, the other the gestures, of Napoleon. You may choose whichever suits you." "Biit the Prince will want to choose." "The Prince will have no choice. When does he come?" "At noon." "Mv men cannot be here until six!"* "And you are sure ?" "Of everything : my man is above the average intelligence — despite his despised calling. One of the two men is sure to do. I shall now devote my time until near six acquainting myself with the perils of my part in this drama. I have been given to understand that if our bogus Emperor fails to carry out what he is instructed to do, I must stand and become a target for the palace guards. And since it seems that my life depends on the issue — naturally, you can depend on my doing all that is possible to save my life." Count d'Arrienne set out for the palace, showing not the least sign of fear in the face of the peril his presence there must surely mean. At a quarter after six in the evening, Count Carre was pacing up and down the hallway of the house in the Rue d'Aubigny, all the bravado and levity of the evening before no longer apparent, The Prince had called at noon, and, on finding really nothing accomplished, had emerged from the thin covering of his purpose to threaten the two men with prison, if they failed to execute his commands. He left the house, under suppressed anger, promising to meet the two nobles at the Royal Palace that night at nine, to assist in carrying out the project. It was past six-thirty when d'Arrienne was driven up in a cabriolet — alone. "Sorry to be late,*' he said breathlessly. "And I have some half bad news. ' ' "You cannot get either of the men?" screamed Carre. d'aRRIEXXE's "NAPOLEON* ' IS PROMISING