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Canfield was also invaluable As er

Service withas spies, it was a

coes and to

obtain a knowledge of the contents of docuiven this resu into detail respecting the sources of the information I h was e

whenever I chose to exert it

During the time that passed as I have described, I beca society Supposed to possess unlimited wealth

(accumulated, by the way, in Mexican mines, for it sounded well), with

the crest of a noble fa

my cards and stationery, and introduced by Prince Michael, as

known to be high in favor with the czar, palace doors were throide

open to receivethen, and woenial, coas which ular police systems, even to the mysterious Third Section which

has no equivalent or parallel in the world, were entirely ignorant of

the existence ofthe months that

followed I fell under suspicion My poas so reater than

theirs that I possessed one abundant advantage, that of knowing their

spies; and many of these, from time to time, I purposely allowed to

become inmates of my house, from which they inevitably carried away the