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COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.
"I WENT first to Mannheim, Lady Janet, as I told you I should in my letter, and I heard all that the consul and the hospital doctors could tell me.

No new fact of the slightest importance turned up.

I got my directions for finding the German surgeon, and I set forth to try what I could make next of the man who performed the operation.

On the question of his patient's identity he had (as a perfect stranger to her) nothing to tell me.