Glances Back Through Seventy Years, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Glances Back Through Seventy Years, Vol. 2 of 2: Autobiographical and Other ReminiscencesThe fortnight expired, the prefect, anxious not to dis appoint his aristocratic applicants, was impatient to know whether my agent had succeeded. Not yet, monsieur le préfet, ' replied he, but I have a clue, and think I am on the right track.' Well, take another fortnight, ' said the prefect, 'but understand the matter must be settled by then. Remember that time is ¿ying, and that if these people are not soon found, the property will be escheated.' A couple of weeks later my young detective, on being summoned to the prefectoral sanctum, pleaded that the clue on which he had relied had proved a failure. Some new information, however, had reached him, and he hoped to lay hands on the missing women very shortly. The prefect was extremely dissatisfied with these excuses, and plainly intimated to the young fellow that he considered I had greatly overrated his abilities. 'however, ' said he, I will grant you a final fortnight, and if you have not then succeeded, the matter will be taken out of your hands.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.