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The Last Hope

CHAPTER XXXVIII
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He must be so by this time.
When I escaped from Paris yesterday morning nearly all the streets were barricaded.

But the troops were pouring into the city as I rode out--and artillery.

I saw one barricade carried by artillery.

Thousands must have been killed in the streets of Paris yesterday--" "-- And, bon Dieu! it is called a coup-d'etat," interrupted the Marquis.
"That was on Tuesday," explained Colville, in his tired voice--"at six o'clock on Tuesday morning.

Yesterday and Wednesday were days of massacre." "But, my friend," exclaimed the Marquis, impatiently, "tell us how it happened.


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