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So began an anxious day, not only for the girl fro with new diplomatic secrets

recently extracted froton, he

was destined to be a rasp of the situation

abroad No one suspected the bootblack, the power behind the throne;

but the gentleman from Texas was destined to think of that able diplomat

many times, and to wish that he still had hiht, sure!" he proclai of this fateful

Tuesday "I tell you, Marian, we're lucky to have our tickets on the

Saronia Five thousand dollars wouldn't buy theo aboard that liner day after to-irl wondered At any rate, she would have that

last letter then--the letter that was to contain whatever defense

her young friend could offer to explain his dastardly act She waited

eagerly for that final epistle

The day dragged on, bringing at its close England's entrance into the

war; and the Carlton bootblack was a prophet not without honor in a