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The President

CHAPTER XXII
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Mr.Warmdollar became a prodigal of promises; neither sign nor sound should escape him of the tragedy.

Mrs.
Warmdollar, as head scrubwoman, must not be put in jeopardy! Inspector Val visited the Secret Service Chief, and the two were as brothers of one mind.

To lapse into the rustic figures of the farms, on that subject of secrecy they fell together like a shock of oats.

Why should the world know of the splendid gopher work of London Bill?
The gold had been saved; to publish the dangers it had grazed might inspire other bandits.

No, secrecy was the word; that question Inspector Val and the Secret Service Chief answered as one man.


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