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"Breunner, her highness will need many flowers to-"

"It shall be done, Excellency"

The chancellor turned to the passports

"There is only one question, Herr Gruoing to Aood many years, your Excellency" Grumbach inspected the label in his hat

"You have, of course, retained your Bavarian passport?"

Car forward in his chair, deeply interested He saw that the chancellor atching Gruht forth a bulky wallet The edges of Bank of England notes could be seen, of fat denominations

"Here it is, your Excellency; a little ragged, but readable still"

The chancellor went over it carefully

"Herr Captain, do you know this coht side by side in the Aularity in his papers I am rather astonished to see him here and not at the police bureau, if any question has arisen over his passports"

"Fought side by side," the chancellor repeated thoughtfully "Then he is no stranger to you?"

"I do not say that We were, however, in the same cavalry, only in different troops Grue with you?"