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It was to be regretted that I had gone to the home of the Princess Zara

to keep ers

I ain It would have

been so easy to arrange for adequate protection, and to have had at

that very h the lace curtained ,

assistance ready at hand in the shape of reed upon A word dropped to O'Malley at his

café, a signTom Coyle, a note in cipher to Canfield, an

indication to anyone of my trusted lieutenants, would have placed about

me at that very moment, an environment of protection adequate to cope

with any difficulty that ht arise

But I had not foreseen the present circumstance sufficiently to be

prepared for it in that reat house, save for the

servants it contained; and they were not to be counted upon in any

case, no ht take

I was conscious, too, while we stood there so silently together, of the

new responsibility I had taken uponthe love scene that