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"Then what do you suggest, Burton?"

"Why, I hardly know--perhaps to wait and see, Sir Nicholas"

"Masterly inactivity!"

"Itout if I felt sure no harm

could come of it"

I was not quite certain what Burton meant by this--What possible harm

could come of it?

"Find out all you can and let me know--"

Suzette opened the door and ca--Burton

left the roo

"So the book is not colish Mees comes

three times a week--hein?"

"Yes--does that upset you?"

"I should say!"

"May I not have a secretary?--You will be objecting towith ry--

"No--mon ami--not that--they are not for me--those--but a secretary--a

'Mees'--tiens?--for why do you want us two?"