[The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Old Man in the Corner CHAPTER XIII 5/11
Winslow and Vassall.
It was just, but it was also high-minded. "All Liverpool knew of the generous action, as Mr.Winslow took care that it should; and any evil suspicion regarding young Mr.Schwarz vanished as quickly as it had come. "Then, of course, there was the theory about the Prince and his suite, and to this day I fancy there are plenty of people in Liverpool, and also in London, who declare that the so-called Russian police officer was a confederate.
No doubt that theory was very plausible, and Messrs. Winslow and Vassall spent a good deal of money in trying to prove a case against the Russian Prince. "Very soon, however, that theory was also bound to collapse.
Mr. Fairburn, whose reputation as an investigator of crime waxes in direct inverted ratio to his capacities, did hit upon the obvious course of interviewing the managers of the larger London and Liverpool _agents de change_.
He soon found that Prince Semionicz had converted a great deal of Russian and French money into English bank-notes since his arrival in this country.
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