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"Granted there's a girl you can't be sure it's Miss Beecher," he maintained doggedly. "This Baroff girl had no idea of her name. Now Miss Beecher would have told her name, the very first thing, it appears to me, and the names of her friends in Cairo, asking for the Baroff's offices in getting a letter to me us." "She may have been too hurried to get to it. She had so many questions to ask.
He had evidently stayed behind for some review of his troops and also to be au courant of whatever stir would result from Fritzi Baroff's reappearance in the world, and be on hand to disarm whatever further suspicions would result from it.
"You don't mean she'd want to tell about it!" he ejaculated with unplumbed horror. Billy was suddenly sobered. "Well, nobody but you and I and the Baroff know it now," he said, "and I think we can keep the Baroff's mouth shut.... I'll see her in the morning. You'd better get in a nap to-morrow, and I will, too, for we'll want steady nerves. Good night; I'm glad you're going with me."
He wishes them to raise the question in their journals." "I do not think he would do that without consulting his father or me," said Mr. Stephens quickly. He felt dismayed by the other's manner. Monsieur Baroff's tone had become menacing, almost discourteous.
With this the disagreeable interview came to an end, and though the English lawyer never confided the details of this curious conversation to any living soul, he did make an opportunity of conveying Ivan Baroff's warning to Gerald Burton. "Before leaving Paris," he said earnestly, "there is one thing I want to impress upon you, Mr. Burton.
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