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A Fascinating Traitor

CHAPTER XIV
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Only the Viceroy and Anstruther know it.
And, now, darling, above all, be sure not to betray yourself, in London.
Remember that Anstruther will have you secretly watched, from this gate to the very moment when you return to it! Any false play of old Fraser would lead to his detention by the authorities, and you would be freed at once by the law!" In the three weeks of their long masquerade, neither Prince Djiddin, his scribe and interpreter, or else the two, as studious visitors, never left Andrew Fraser alone a single moment! The old scholar was thrilled at heart with Eric Murray's solemn rehearsing of Frank Halton's valuable notebooks and ingenious theories.

He eagerly enforced Prince Djiddin's request that no curious strangers should be allowed to force themselves on him, no matter of what lofty rank.

Prince Djiddin was wrapped in the veil of a solemn personal seclusion.
And to this end Simpson, now the butler of the "Banker's Folly," was especially assigned to wait upon the austere "Prince Djiddin" as his "body servant." Only one visit of state was exchanged between "Prince Djiddin" and General Wragge, Her Majesty's Commander of the Channel Islands.

The "Moonshee," with a sober dignity, had interpreted for the British Commander of the Manche, and in due state, a return visite de ceremonie to General Wagge's mansion and headquarters strangely found Captain Anson Anstruther, A.D.C.of the Viceroy of India, a pilgrim to St.Heliers, to arrange secretly for "Prince Djiddin's" safe conduct and return to Thibet.

The curious society crowd and St.Heliers's beautiful women envied Captain Anstruther his three hours conference with the "Asiatic lion." By day, in the vaulted library, Andrew Fraser pored over the weird stories of Runjeet Singh, of Aurung zebe, of King Dharma, and the Cashmerian priest who came with Buddha's first message to Thibet! The story of the marvelous royal babe found floating in the Ganges, in a copper box, a century before Christ, the tales of the "Konchogsum," the "Buddha jewel," the "doctrine jewel," and the "priesthood jewel" fed the burning fever of old Fraser's senile mind.


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