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In the darkness the car went swiftly through Mentone and along the steep winding road which leads around the rugged coast close to the sea -- the road over the yellow rocks which Napoleon made into Italy.
Presently they began to ascend a hill, a lonely, wind-swept highway with the sea plashing deep below, when, after a sudden bend, some lights came into view. It was the wayside Italian Customs House.