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Show Paris Today Is City of Exiles Paris, aaya tha author of "This King Business," is at present the city of exiles. Be vers I of hla chap, tera tell about the humble, brave at tempta of the aristocratic Huealan refugeea to earn an honet living and if they ever did this before, perhaps It la not too much their fault. At any rata, mo of them seem to be admirable In their attitudes atti-tudes toward their personal fortunes for-tunes now that everything haa been taken from them. "In theory," Krederlclt U Collins ssya, the I'arla Latln quarter la sacred sa-cred to the art W.I. In actuality, it la like South Boston or bast 8t. Louis, simply an Ineipeneive, every-dsy every-dsy place where all sorts of people live. Her Is where the Russian Bed Cross has Its headquarters, where Par la committees for Russian bet- i ferment meet and function, where the bulk of the Russian exiles live. Hera la where 1 found tha admiral. "Into a smelly aid street, through a low doorway, across a cobbled courtyard, up three flights of shs-dowy shs-dowy atalra. to a door which bora the Inevitable Inscription, 'Furnished 'Furn-ished Rgoms,' lay the way to tha hall bedroom of tha former commander-in-chief of the imperial forces at Archangst Behind the soiled lady In the calico wrapper loomed the monumental figure of Admiral I'osaokow big booy, big hands and feat, massiva head and noble features, built on tha Michael Angelo plan. He filled tha room with hla also and dignity. And presently hs Illumined K with his ssd. sweet smltn. "The old hero seamed anxious to talk about others. There wss his middle aged friend, (leneral Borne-body Borne-body -or -it her, who was wonderfully wonderful-ly aucceasfut driving trucks; another an-other younger nobleman who washed cars in a Paris garag-e; the colonel, decorated for bravery by the caar, who made a fair living, working all day aa a chauffeur and all evening, until midnight, aa a waiter, and many young officers of tha imperial guard who were chauf- |