Two men.now in England. have a Scarlet Pimpernel story to tell.
Last June they were the advance couriers of M. Patil Reynaud and Mme. de Portes, when the et-Premier and the woman who will Zo down in history as the evil genius of the last days of France were fiying io Spain and freedom, The couriers, ex-Government officials, preceded their prime minister by car and reached Madrid safely.
They carried with them eight million francs in money, highly important State. documents and all the jewels, including valuable diamonds, of Mme, de Portes, While Sud and Mme, de Portes met disaster in their car on French soil (Mme. de Portes being Killed outright), the two couriers were detained in Spain, They had diplomatic passports but no Spanish visas. An urgent cable was sent fo Marshel Petain. by then head of the French State, asking what to do with the couriers, Answer came back "Return the documents, "the money and the jewels, but let the men go" The couriers, therefore, made their way to Portugal. Eventually they landed in England—"DoMy Sketch." top
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