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The Substitute — Chapter The Substitute (Part 6 of 6)

It was the landlord and the Auvergnat, who brought the police. Jean Françcois sprang forward to the landing-place, held out his hands for the handcuffs, and said, laughing, “Forward, bad lot!”

To-day he is at Cayenne, condemned for life as an incorrigible.