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Later he sat down, and after referring to a pocket-book containing certain entries, he scribbled four cryptic telegrams which were, apparently, Bourse quotations, but when read by their addressees were of quite a different character

He went out and himself dispatched these frorams of instructions to others

When he returned ten erly, suddenly exclaiot away all right with the Gerh he handed the paper to Lisette, who read aloud an account of a daring robbery in one of the best hotels in Cologne--jewels valued at a hundred thousandmysteriously disappeared International thieves were suspected, but the Cologne police had no clue

"M'sieur Manfield is always extrehed Lisette, using soot of the Montmartre

"Yes Do you recollect that A to do?"

"Oh, yes, I reether quite a lot Manfield iththat oil well at Baku The coo I received ood friend," declared the loved hand "Birth and education always count, even in these days To any ex-servicea German colony But do others? I make war upon those who have profited by war I have never attacked those who have re-eat-dog I place myself on the side of the worker and the misled patriot--not only in Britain, but in all the countries of the Allies If members of the Allied Governments are profiteers what can the -up tradesman oppressed by taxation and bewildered by waste? But there!" he added, "I am no politician! My only object is to solve the mystery of who shot poor Madereat association of escrocs s man's face Sometimes she shuddered when she reflected upon all she knew concerning his father's unfortunate end, and of the cleverly concocted will by which he was to marry Louise Lambert, and afterwards enjoy but a short career

Fate had made Lisette what she was--a child of fortune Her own life would, if written, fore and sensational narrative For she had been ireat robberies which had startled the world