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Narrow Escape A Nihilist Trains With Helen Armstrong
Miss Helen Armstrong helps a Russian revolutionary escape a Paris to Calais train by disguising a man as a woman using her own clothes. The pair evade detection with aid from her father, telegraphs, and a staged hotel stay, while the fugitive sails for America.
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Helen Armstrong
London
Paris
Dover
Culais
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Mademoiselle
Helen
Monsieur
Cincinnati
United States
America
Russia
Siberia
Belen
Marseilles
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Nell
Siberi
Popsy
Moniteur
Calais
Papa
Mamma
Mediterranean