The Exploits of Juve - Marcel Allain - Bog

Show Excerpt "Fifty thousand at least, the Cooper told me." Loupart nodded, waved the Beard aside and resumed: "Address it to "Monsieur Juve, "Commissioner of Safety, "At the Prefecture, Paris." II ON THE TRACK The daily paper, The Capital, was about to go to press. The editors had handed over the last slips of copy with the latest news. "Well, Fandor," asked the Secretary, "nothing more for me?" "No, nothing." "You won't spring a 'latest' on me?" "Not unless the President of the Republic should be assassinated." "Right enough. But don't joke. Lord, there's something else to be done just now." The "setter up" appeared in the editor's rooms: "I want sharp type for 'one, ' and eight lines for 'two.'" Discreetly, as a man accustomed to the business, Fandor withdrew on he