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The Illustrious Prince

CHAPTER V
19/22

"I am not going so far as to say that.

I simply know that when a man is practically the secret agent of his government, and is probably carrying despatches of an important nature, that an accident such as he has met with, in a country which is greatly interested in the contents of those despatches, is a somewhat serious thing." The young man nodded.
"Say," he admitted "you're dead right.

The Pacific cruise, and our relations with Japan, seem to have rubbed our friends over here altogether the wrong way.

We have irritations enough already to smooth over, without anything of this sort on the carpet." "I am going to tell you now," she continued, leaning a little towards him, "the real reason why I fetched you out of the club this afternoon and have brought you for this little expedition.

The last time I lunched with Mr.Hamilton Fynes was just after his return from Berlin.


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