"Long Live the King!"

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I have described the ignominious fashion in which our family, led by the giant inn-keeper, made its way into the hole in the cliff, and thus escaped the soldiers who would certainly otherwise have arrested us. As soon as Gabriel, my father's valet, who was the last of our party to enter, had disappeared, the innkeeper's son, who remained outside, once more covered the aperture with brush-wood, thus ef...