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46 cused from military service; he never set foot in a dark place; he eschewed all sport; and he never went abroad without a body-guard of five heavily armed peasants.

"Sic semper tyrannis!" screamed the socialistic daily, La Patrie.

It stated boldly that Prince Pavel Narodkine was a reactionary, a leading member of the Black Hundred, a blood-gorged oppressor of the masses, and that it was his fear of becoming the target of a patriot s bullet which caused him to shun the dark and to seek the protection of steel-girt retainers—a report promptly branded by the Gaulois as "a filthy and reeking falsehood sired and darned in the fetid gray-matter of our socialistic colleague." The article added that the prince had no enemy either among the revolutionists or the reactionaries, that he had, in fact, never occupied himself with politics.

Here the Vie Parisienne scored again with a snap shot of the prince walking down the Boulevard des Italiens surrounded by his armed body-guard; the Patrie followed by demanding why "the titled blood-sucker" should thus be allowed to break the laws of the republic which enjoined the carrying of arms; the official Mercure de France explained that