The Trail of the Beast Author:Achmed Abdullah General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: James A. McCann Company Subjects: France World War, 1914-1918 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr... more »ee trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V THE BLUE ULSTER Morning came with a cold wintry blast that dropped on the Seine with a thin coating of ice, whirled down the boulevards in a flurry of frozen dew, and clad the tracery of the elm trees that border the Place Fon- tenoy with a romantic vestment of hoarfrost. It came with coffee and hominy and sausage and buckwheat cakes prepared by George W. Brown's plum-colored paws -- a daily shock and grievance to the fat Burgundian cook who presided over the culinary destinies of the apartment shared by Tennant and Lord Menzies-Kerr. It came with a bundle of newspapers, of which Tennant read a number of different political persuasions so as to keep in contact with "the business, the society, and the crimes of Paris," as he expressed it. Every one of them, from the aristocratic Gaulois beloved by the Faubourg Saint Germain to the Petit Parisien beloved by janitor and workman, head-lined the Jarvet murder, the arrest of Mile. Angele Lan- taigne, and -- very last news, slipped in after a violent wrangle between the night editors and the foreman of the printing rooms -- her subsequent release, thanks to the alibi provided by her father, the chief of the secret political police. One or two of the more serious papers devoted short editorials to speculating about the political consequences of Jarvet's sudden death, reminding their readers that the day before the murder Anatole Jarvet had been reflected to the House of Deputies; that he was the most dangerous enemy of the Republican Party in the saddle, the leade...« less