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We did not return to Müller's; each of us stole quietly home to await

the advent of the police, for they would rout out every Aun They would first visit

the consulate and ascertain what I knew of the affair; when they got

through with the rest of the boys Max would be in Doppelkinn The

police were going to be very busy that night: a princess on one hand

and an anarchist on the other

There were terrible ti before atched

Max's train and the vanishing green and red lights at the end of it the

grand duke was having troubles of his own He was pacing wildly up and

down in his dressing-room Clutched in his fist was a crumpled sheet

of paper From time to time he smoothed it out and re-read the

contents Each time he swore like the celebrated man in Flanders

_You forceddesperate

Do not send for me, for you will never find arde_