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THE COUNCIL AT GRANVILLE.
When Major Alan Hawke returned, three weeks later, to the Hotel Grand National, at Geneva, he was sorely wearied and dispirited.

A round of inspection of all the principal jewel marts of the continent had been only a fruitless, solitary tourist promenade.

And the ominous silence of Captain Anson Anstruther, A.D.

C., boded no good to the military future of the adventurer.