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The Powers and Maxine

CHAPTER X
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But to my fancy he looked absolutely devilish at that moment.
Still, I was less afraid of him than I had been since the day I stole the treaty.
"Well," I said slowly, "I think it's time that you left me now." "That's your answer?
You can't mean it." "I do mean it, just as much as I meant to refuse you the three other times that you did me the same honour.

You asked me to hear what you had to say to-night, and I have heard it; so there's no reason why I shouldn't press the electric bell for my chauffeur to stop, and--" "Do you know that you're pronouncing du Laurier's doom, to say nothing of your own ?" "No.

I don't know it." "Then I haven't made myself clear enough." "That's true.

You haven't made yourself clear enough." "In what detail have I failed?
Because--".
"In the detail of the document.

I've told you I know nothing about it.
You've told me you know everything.


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