THE SON OF CLEMENCEAU

A Novel of Modern Love and Life

A Sequel to _The Clemenceau Case_

by

ALEXANDER DUMAS (FILS)







CHAPTER I.

STUDENT AND SOLDIER.


The sunset-gun had been fired from the ramparts of the fortifications of
Munich and the shadows were thickly descending on the famous old city of
Southern Germany. The evening breeze in this truly March weather came
chill over the plain of stones where Isar flowed darkly, and at the
first puff of it, forcing him to wind his cloak round him, a lonely
wanderer in the low quarter recognized why "the City of Monks" was also
called "the Realm of Rheumatism."

The new town, which he had not yet seen, might justify yet another of