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The Puppet Crown

CHAPTER III
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"You shall not leave this room till you have fully explained this remarkable intrusion." "We were expecting the Lord and Baronet Fitzgerald." "The lord!" laughing.

"Does the lord visit Bleiberg often, then, that you prepare this sort of a reception?
And the Baronet Fitzgerald ?" "They are the same and the one person." "And who the deuce is he; a spy, a smuggler, a villain, or what ?" "As to that, Monsieur," with a wonder why this man laughed, "I know no more than you.

But I do know that for the past month every Englishman has been subjected to this surveillance, and has submitted with more grace than you," with an oblique glance.
"What! Examined his luggage at the hotel ?" "Yes, Monsieur.

It is the order of the minister of police.

I know not why." The natural color was returning to his cheeks.
"This is a fine country, I must say.


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