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El Dorado

CHAPTER XVI
16/19

Belhomme, Louise, aged sixty.

Discharged.
And just below, the other entry: 583.

Lange, Jeanne, aged twenty, actress.

Square du Roule No.5.

Suspected of harbouring traitors and ci-devants.
Transferred 29th Nivose to the Temple, cell 29.
He saw nothing more, for suddenly it seemed to him as if some one held a vivid scarlet veil in front of his eyes, whilst a hundred claw-like hands were tearing at his heart and at his throat.
"Clear out now! it is my turn--what?
Are you going to stand there all night ?" A rough voice seemed to be speaking these words; rough hands apparently were pushing him out of the way, and some one snatched the candle out of his hand; but nothing was real.


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