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The Great Impersonation

CHAPTER XIII
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Germany will pay the price for what she intends to achieve.

Ninety thousand pounds was yesterday passed to the credit of your account for the extinction of certain mortgages.

In a few months' or a few years' time, some distant Dominey will benefit to that extent.
We cannot recover the money.

It is just an item in our day by day expenses." "It was certainly a magnificent way of establishing me," Dominey admitted.
"Magnificent, but safest in the long run," Seaman declared.

"If you had returned a poor man, everybody's hand would have been against you; suspicions, now absolutely unkindled, might have been formed; and, more important, perhaps, than either, you would not have been able to take your place in Society, which is absolutely necessary for the furtherance of our scheme." "Is it not almost time," Dominey enquired, "that the way was made a little clearer for me ?" "That would have been my task this morning," Seaman replied, "but for the news I bring.


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