text:  Already his eyes were bloodshot his face purple and his tongue protruding from his mouth when a gendarme came up and aided by half-a-dozen of those agents who in plain clothes half-spy and half-policeman are to be found in every place of public resort in France succeeded but not without difficulty in rescuing the Carlist from the fierce clutch of his foe who clung to him with bull-dog tenacity till they were actually drawn asunder by main force