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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

CHAPTER XII
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"And why should you have them addressed to the bank ?" He folded up the paper then and put it in his pocket.
"Violet," he said earnestly, "for the disagreements which have resulted in our separation I may myself have been to some extent responsible, but we have promised one another not to refer to them again and I will not break our compact.

All I can say is that there is much in my life which you know little of, and for which you do not, therefore, make sufficient allowance." "Then you might have treated me," she declared, "with more confidence." "It was not possible," he reminded her, "so long as you chose to make an intimate friend of a man whose every interest in life is in direct antagonism to mine." "Mr.Draconmeyer ?" "Mr.Draconmeyer," he assented.
She smiled contemptuously.
"You misunderstand Mr.Draconmeyer completely," she insisted.

"He is your well-wisher and he is more than half an Englishman.

It was he who started the league between English and German commercial men for the propagation of peace.

He formed one of the deputation who went over to see the Emperor.


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