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"Coerate surely--if only by your way of

putting things It's too startling"

"I exaggerate!" he defended his! My dear

fellow I have e and financial

jargon offyou the

naked truth It's true too that nothing lays itself open to the charge

of exaggeration e of naked truth What comes with a

shock is admitted with difficulty But ill you say to the end of

his career?

It was of course sensational and tolerably sudden It began with the Orb

Deposit Bank Under the name of that institution de Barral with the

frantic obstinacy of an uni an Indian

prince as prosecuting a claiovernment It was an enormous number of scores of lakhs--a miserable

re And it was all

authentic enough There was a real prince; and the claim too was

sufficiently real--only unfortunately it was not a valid claim So the

prince lost his case on the last appeal and the beginning of de Barral's

end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note

paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door of The Orb offices

notifying that payment was stopped at that establishment

Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week I won't say in