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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER VI
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I think it's quite proper.

I will take the liberty to tell you, sir, that it makes me what I am--and I am looked upon as a man who knows his work.

It's a private affair of my own.

A personal friend of mine in the French police gave me the hint that the fellow was an Embassy spy.

Private friendship, private information, private use of it--that's how I look upon it." The Assistant Commissioner after remarking to himself that the mental state of the renowned Chief Inspector seemed to affect the outline of his lower jaw, as if the lively sense of his high professional distinction had been located in that part of his anatomy, dismissed the point for the moment with a calm "I see." Then leaning his cheek on his joined hands: "Well then--speaking privately if you like--how long have you been in private touch with this Embassy spy ?" To this inquiry the private answer of the Chief Inspector, so private that it was never shaped into audible words, was: "Long before you were even thought of for your place here." The so-to-speak public utterance was much more precise.
"I saw him for the first time in my life a little more than seven years ago, when two Imperial Highnesses and the Imperial Chancellor were on a visit here.


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