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The Double Traitor

CHAPTER XXIV
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I have seen the struggles of shame, the doubts, the assertion of some part of a man's lower nature reconciling him in the end to accepting the pay of a foreign country.

I have seen none of these things in this young man--simply a cold and deliberate acceptance of my proposals.

He conforms to no type.
He sets up before me a problem which I myself have failed wholly to solve.

I come to you, dear lady, for your aid." "I am to spy upon the spy," she remarked.
"It is an easy task," Selingman declared.

"This young man is your slave.
Whatever your daily business may be here, some part of your time, I imagine, will be spent in his company.


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