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The Powers and Maxine

CHAPTER XVII
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He followed Dundas to Paris on the bare suspicion that there'd been, communication between the two, and he was preparing a report for me when--Dundas called on him." "What connection can Ivor Dundas' coming to Paris have with Raoul du Laurier ?" I dared to ask.
"You know best as to that." "They have never met.

Both are men of honour, and--" "Men of honour are tricked by women sometimes, and then they have to suffer for being fools, as if they had been villains.

Think what such a man--a man of honour, as you say--would feel when he found out the woman!" "A woman can be calumniated as well as a man," I said.

"You are so unscrupulous you would stoop to anything, I know that.

Raoul du Laurier has done nothing; I--I have done nothing of which to be ashamed.


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