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"Just walk about near the wine shop, Burton, and try to find out by

every clue your not unintelligent old pate can invent, where Miss Sharp

lives, and what is happening? Then go to the Hotel de Courville and chat

with the concierge--or whatever you think best--I si!"

Burton pulled in his lips

"Very good, Sir Nicholas"

I tried to correctto do

the things I feel she thinks would i ache for news--Underneath is the fear that so to e in case it es and things were bound to co sources, to fill me with hope and then disappoint

me--It is always like that I really ild on Friday afternoon, and

if George Harcourt had not turned up--he is at the Trianon Palace noith the Supreme War Council--I don't knohat I should have done with

myself Lots of those felloould come and dine with me if I wanted

them--some are even old pals--but I a

"My dear boy," he said, "Violetta is upsetting allI have offered her--But I fear she is beginning

to show reat calaerous that, Nicholas!--because you know, my dear

boy, when a woman shows absolute devotion, a man is irresistibly