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KKMIN1) you once more that,
I the Czar i.s due to arrive at
2 o'clock sharp. You will
wait for me at the Care des Inva-
lides.”
“Yes.* your excellency.”
“I believe that is all for to-day. Au
revoir.”
“Au revoir, your excellency.”
When he left the Prime Minister,
whose private secretary he was, No-
lilet found Cormontreuil waiting for
; him in the antechamber, with a smile
i on his lips.
Now it was very much against the
habits of Cormontreuil to smile as
I well as to visit the antechambers of
ministers. Noblet inderstood that
something extraordinary must have
happened. What? He had a sus
picion.
i“I Have Succeeded!”
“Have you succeeded?” he asked.
Cormontreuil burst out:
“Yes, I have succeeded. I have over
come all obstacles: et>lor photography
reproduced from an ordinary single
negative is now a fafct, thanks to the
Cormontreuil process”
“That means fame! and wealth to
you,” Noblet replied “I congratu
late you most heartiir.”
“Thanks. I ran up h*re right away,
because I wanted to t<ll the news of
my success to somebqjy who loved
me.
Noblet felt embarrassed. He did
not love Cormontreuil. a\d while they
walked together throteh Avenue
Marigny he listened to\ his words
without interest. What dj he under-
' stand about all these chemical pro-
! cesses of which his friend ias always
gibbering. Noblet had bef^ violently
in love with the late Mm* Cormon
treuil and to get near he had al
ways pretended to be immhsely in
terested in photography an. chemis
try.
Now that Suzanne was fiead lie
could not very well declare^hat he
did not care a bit more forjhemis-
trv than for Cormontreuil. <Srtainly
this was not the time to thror over
board the friendship, when Crmon-
treuil was about to become amous
and might help him in his Witical
career.
So Noblet cried enthusiast^ally:
“This is indeed one of the haziest
days of my life.”
“Thank you. my friend, thank p u .»*
said Cormontreuil, with tears iihis
eyes. » \
“I wish I could do somethin* to
help your discovery along.” wentrm
Noblet.
‘‘I Counted on You.”
“You are the only man who cal*
said Cormontreuil, “and to tell
the truth, I was counting • on yoi
assistance.”
‘But how am I to help you?”
“Listen, Noblet. My new inventTdi\
must create a sensation. Now, since
; the Czar comes to Paris to-morrow,
I thought thaf a fine portrait of him
in natural colors and sent to a num
ber of influential people—”
“But I do not see what I can do.”
“Wait. The police arrangements to
morrow forbid the public to get near
the platform when the Czar arrives,
but you, as the Minister’s secretary,
can get very close to the Czar.”
"You want me to take a snapshot?”
“YeS. I will give you a small cam
era, which nobody will notice; it is
easy enough.”
“But I can not use my position to do
such a thing.”
“Well, let us say no more about it.”
said Cormontreuil, evidently annoyed.
“It is the first thing I have ever asked
from you, and I really did not imag
ine you would refuse to do me this
slight service.”
Noblet felt that he had made a mis
take; he must remain the friend of
this new Daguerre.
“You don’t let me finish,” he said.
“I said that it was not quite in or
der to use my position to do such a
thing, but I will do It for your sake.”
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Tho next evening- Paris heard that
an attempt had been made to murder
the Czar as he left his car.
The account In one of the evening
papers read:
“At the moment when the Czar ap
proached the Prime Minister, the lat
ter's secretary, M. Noblet, fired a shot
at him from a revolver concealed in
a camera, but fortunately the bullet
went wild and was found imbedded
in the side of the car. The murderer
was seized on the spot and fainted.
When hi; recovered consciousness he
swore that he did not know that the
camera had concealed a revolver, and
said that it had been given to him by
| a certain Cormontreuil, who clnimed
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AX amusing Ftory is being told of
an incident of Lord Curzon’s
school,days. His handwriting in those
days left something to be desired in
the way of legibility, and he once had
the misfortune, after writing two let
ters, to put them into the wrong en
velopes.
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a chum with whom he was in tho
habit of discussing his relatives
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which should have gone to the chum,
and the young Etonian was wonder
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the scrape when a letter arrived from
the relative in question containing a
note reading something like this:
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pages, but guess you want some
money, you young rascal."
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