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The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas père
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"Escaped, gone, they have helped them off!"

And the people in the street repeated, with fearful
imprecations, --

"Escaped gone! After them, and catch them!"

"Monseigneur, it seems that Mynheer Cornelius has really
escaped," said the officer.

"Yes, from prison, perhaps, but not from the town; you will
see, Van Deken, that the poor fellow will find the gate
closed against him which he hoped to find open."

"Has an order been given to close the town gates,
Monseigneur?"

"No, -- at least I do not think so; who could have given
such an order?"

"Indeed, but what makes your Highness suppose?"

"There are fatalities," Monseigneur replied, in an offhand
manner; "and the greatest men have sometimes fallen victims
to such fatalities."

At these words the officer felt his blood run cold, as
somehow or other he was convinced that the prisoner was
lost.

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