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A B.OGUS NAPOLEON
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it will be for the best," whispered d'Arrienne, as the man entered the hall. "He is uncommunicative and surly, at the best."
"He carries himself awkwardly," remarked Carre, in an undertone, as the newcomer brushed against a table of bric-a-brac, and sent its contents to the floor. *
By this time Count d'Arrienne, too, had grown nervous, and seemed anxiously to guard against the clumsy understudy 's supersensitiveness.
"The Count Carre, who will give you full instructions, and accompany you to the door of the Emperor's private suite."
The two men bowed: the Count gracefully; the other with exaggerated politeness.
"And you are sure that the Emperor has left Paris ? ' ' asked the man, in a peculiar, high-strung voice, that might have been keyed with emotion.
" I was informed on the best authority that he not only left Paris secretly at ten this morning, but that he was twenty miles away at noon. Shall we start now?" asked Carre, impatiently, noting that it was ten minutes after nine.
As the three men entered the cab, several figures might have been seen to emerge from dark alleys, and to enter the house in the name of the Emperor !
Not until the lights of the Tuileries could be seen from the shaded window of the cabriolet, did any one speak. It was Carre, who had been somewhat nervously examining the priming of the pistols concealed under his coat.
"Is he armed?" he whispered to d'Arrienne.
"Powerfully."
' ' Has he been told practically every step he is to take?"
THE EMPEROR SECRETLY E2TURNS, AND TAKES A HAND IX .MATTERS