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The fourth letter presented difficulties until I returned fro before our quiet house Hence

the visit of the woman with the lilac perfume I am afraid the

Wilhelmstrasse would have little use for a lady spy who advertised

herself in so foolish athe fifth letter

arrived I felt that I should now be placed under arrest I had a faint

little hope that you would be sorry about that Oh, I'ame I had told the captain of the cruel way in which I had

disposed of him He was much amused; but he insisted, absolutely, that

he must be vindicated before the close of the series, and I ith him

there He had been so bully about it all A chance reood authority that the chief of

the Czar's bureau for capturing spies in Russia was himself a spy And

so--why not a spy in Scotland Yard?

I assure you, I am most contrite as I set all this down here You an my story there was no idea of war Now all

Europe is aflareat conflict, the awful

suffering to coin to look--well, I fancy you