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The History of a Crime

CHAPTER III
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You are cramped; come in with me." "Let me alone," said the prisoner.

"With these three men I am cramped; with you I should be contaminated." An escort of infantry was ranged on both sides of the _fiacre_.

Colonel Espinasse called to the coachman, "Drive slowly by the Quai d'Orsay until you meet a cavalry escort.

When the cavalry shall have assumed the charge, the infantry can come back." They set out.
As the _fiacre_ turned into the Quai d'Orsay a picket of the 7th Lancers arrived at full speed.

It was the escort: the troopers surrounded the _fiacre_, and the whole galloped off.
No incident occurred during the journey.


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