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The Puppet Crown

CHAPTER IX
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On the twentieth the certificates fall due against the government.

If they are not presented either for renewal or collection, the bankruptcy scheme of your duchess will fall through just the same.

I will tell you the truth, Madame.

My father never expected to collect the moneys so long as Leopold sat on the throne." The whistle grew shrill.
"This officer here," continued Fitzgerald, while the Colonel made a comical grimace, "suggests violence.

I shall save him the trouble.


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