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Greenmantle

CHAPTER TWELVE
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I reckon they wouldn't stand up against what we could show them in the U-nited States.

But I have met the Frau von Einem, and that lady's a very different proposition.

The man that will understand her has got to take a biggish size in hats.' 'Who is she ?' I asked.
'Why, that is just what I can't tell you.

She was a great excavator of Babylonish and Hittite ruins, and she married a diplomat who went to glory three years back.

It isn't what she has been, but what she is, and that's a mighty clever woman.' Blenkiron's respect did not depress me.


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