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"Ite of possible disaster didn't come until the next afternoon, when the foreman of the Satan Mine, one Bill Mahoney, found a note under his cabin door that said, 'Help! Little Angel Mine Coe method to sound an alarned

"Iteiven hiive it to the newspapers in case of a fatal accident An odd premonition, to say the least It was as if Uncle Joshua wanted to be certain there was nothe victims' identities"

Donner pushed back his plate and drank a glass of water "I find your theory intriguing, but not fully convincing"

"Ah, but finally, perhaps above all, Mr Donner, I have saved the piece de resistance until last

"Iteedy, h Europe, sawon the boat-train platforland My mother often related how she went up to him and said, 'God in heaven, Joshua, is it really you?' The face that stared back at her was bearded and deathly white, the eyes glassy 'Forget me,' he whispered and then turned and ran My father chased him down the platform but soon lost him in the crowd"

"The logical answer is a simple case of mistaken identity"

"A sister who doesn't know her own brother?" Young said sarcastically "Come now, Mr Donner, surely you could pick your brother out of a crowd?"

"'Fraid not I was an only child"

"A shareat joys"

"At least I didn't have to share my toys" The check arrived and Donner threw a credit card on the tray "So what you're saying is that the Little Angel disaster was a cover-up"

"That'spatted hisit, of course, but I've always had a haunting feeling that the Societe des Mines de Lorraine was in back of it"

"Who were they?"

"They were and still are to France what Krupp is to Germany, what Mitsubichi is to Japan, what Anaconda is to the United States"

"Where does the Societe-whatever you call it-fit in?"

"They were the French financiers who hired Joshua Hays Brewster as their engineer-h capital to pay nine men to vanish off the face of the earth"