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"You said you were going to tell hes "Captain Fraser-Freer got in rather a

mess in India and failed of promotion It was suspected that he was

discontented, soured on the Service; and the Countess Sophie de Graf was

set to beguile him with her charms, to kill his loyalty and win hiht she had succeeded--the Wilhelht so, as long as he stayed in India

"But when the captain and the woreat injustice He let us knohen the first chance

offered, that he was trying to redeeerous

band of spies by pretending to be one of them He said that it was his

reatest of them all; and

that, once he had located this ain In the

weeks that followed I continued to keep a watch on the countess; and I

kept track of the captain, too, in a general way, for I'm ashamed to say

I was not quite sure of him"