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The Lost Ambassador

CHAPTER XIV
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That is all.

Mademoiselle comes for the first time.

I know her not at all." "What do you think of his disappearance, Louis ?" I asked.
"What should I think of it, monsieur?
I know nothing." "Mr.Delora, I am told," I continued, "is a coffee planter in South America." "I, too," Louis admitted, "have heard so much." "How came he to have the _entree_ to the Cafe des Deux Epingles ?" I asked.
Louis smiled.
"I myself," he remarked, "am but a rare visitor there.

How should I tell ?" "Louis," said I, "why not be honest with me?
I am certainly not a person to be afraid of.

I am very largely in your hands over the Tapilow affair, and, as you know, I have seen too much of the world to consider trifles.


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