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The Governors

CHAPTER II
11/16

It will be telephoned to several places in the city that I am dining here to-night.

From where I am sitting, I can see two reporters standing by the entrance.

They are waiting for me." She looked at him with interested eyes.
"But why ?" she asked timidly.
"Oh! it is simply a matter," he said, "of the money-markets.

I have been doing some things during the last few days which people don't quite understand.

They don't know whether to follow me or stand away, and the Press doesn't know how to explain my actions; so you see I am watched.
You heard what I said," he asked, somewhat abruptly, "about those two things, obedience and truth ?" "Yes!" she answered.
"They say," he resumed, "that a wise man trusts no one.


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