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Reuidebook “In Portoferraio, on the northern coast He had two homes, actually, the Villa San Martino and the Villa dei Mulini He had a staff of somewhere between six hundred and one thousand, and took the title Emperor of Elba”

“Took the title, or was slapped in the face with it?” Saood chunk of Europe under his thu of a letdown”

“True Another fun fact: before leaving for Elba Napoleon tried to poison himself”

“No kidding”

“Apparently he kept it in a bottle around his neck—a cocktail of opiu on the Russian Can he had it mixed up”

“He probably didn’t want to fall into the hands of the Cossacks”

“Well, I can’t say I blame him They still don’t like him Anyway, he drank it but by then it was a couple years old and too weak He spent the night writhing in pain on the floor, but survived”

“Ree”

She ignored hiree on is how exactly he escaped There were both French and Prussian guards stationed all over the island and offshore there was a British man-o’-war on constant patrol”

“Tricky little devil”

“Car behind us,” Sam said a few minutes later Remi turned and looked out the backA half eot was rounding a curve It disappeared from view for a few moments behind a hillside, then reappeared

“He’s in a hurry”

Since leaving the Bahamas both Sam

and Rens of pursuit, but had so far seen nothing The problem with an island as small as Elba was that it had li way here

Sa between the rearview mirror and the road ahead