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Cournet looks him in the face, and finds this countenance in his memory.
The man was right. He had, in fact, formed part of the gathering in the
Rue Saint Spire. The police spy resumed, laughing,--
"
I nominated Eugène Sue with you."
It was useless to deny it, and the moment was not favorable for
resistance. There were on the spot, as we have said, twenty sergents de
ville and a regiment of Dragoons.
"
I will follow you," said Cournet.
A fiacre was called up.
"
While I am about it," said the police spy, "come in all three of you."
He made Huy and Lorrain get in with Cournet, placed them on the front
seat, and seated himself on the back seat by Cournet, and then shouted
to the driver,--
"
To the Prefecture!"
The sergents de ville surrounded the fiacre. But whether by chance
or through confidence, or in the haste to obtain the payment for his
capture, the man who had arrested Cournet shouted to the coachman, "Look
sharp, look sharp!" and the fiacre went off at a gallop.
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