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with lunches, race meetings, dinners, theater parties, dances and suppers that he was compelled to post-
pone intervention till the sixth day, when every Socialist organ and organization from San Fran-
cisco eastward to Japan was loudly disavowing any connection with the crime, the newspapers of England and Germany were snarling and howling and roaring and bellowing at one another, and the Foreign Office and the German Chancellery were wiring frequent, carefully coded appeals to each other to invent some plausible excuse for not mobilizing their armies and fleets. Even then Sir Maurice, who knew too well the value of German press opinion, would not have interfered, had not the extremely active wife of a cabinet minister consulted him about the easiest way for her to sell twenty thousand pounds' worth of consols. He disliked the lady so strongly that after telling her how she could best compass her design, he felt that the time had come to ease the international situa-
tion.

With this end in view he went down to Little Deeping. His conviction that the Twins were re-
sponsible for the disappearance of the princess be-

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