The Sword in the Air

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Excerpt from The Sword in the Air: Being the Story of Adrienne De Portalis "Halt, in the name of the Law!" cries a man in a pursuing fiacre. "For the love of God, drive on!" screams a desperate girl to the coachman of a hack racing nearly a hundred yards in advance of the pursuing carriage, which holds two mouchards of the galley-slave-chief-of-detectives, Monsieur Eugene Francois Vidocq. So the two vehicles rattle over the stones of the Avenue de Neuilly and reach the Arc de Triomphe. Crouched on the cushions of her coupe the girl, her slight form draped in the somber weeds of widowhood, gazes back at the voiture that is following her, and notes, though its horses are whipped remorselessly, it does not gain upon the one in which she sits wringing her hands, the gloom of the evening scarcely concealing the pathetic terror of her beautiful, innocent, and almost childlike eyes. "Halt, in the name of the King!" "A hundred francs and you get me into Paris safe from these awful men!" sobs the girl, the sweetness of her voice made harsher by the latent terror in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.