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My friendliness with Zuroff stood us in good stead; for, a week later, Bindo and Blythe contrived to get a very pretty diamond necklet and pair of earrings from a lady in Petersburg, which fetched six hundred golden louis in Amsterdam. Dusk was falling early in Piccadilly as I sat in the car outside the Royal Automobile Club, awaiting the reappearance of my master.
On entering his room at the Ministry, he gave me a cigarette, and commenced to chat. Then suddenly he touched a bell, another door opened, and I was amazed at seeing before me, between two grey-coated police-officers, a woman Julie Rosier! For an instant she glared at me as though she saw an apparition. Then, with a loud scream, she fainted. "Ah!" exclaimed Zuroff.
Therefore you cleverly plotted to take his life and make it appear as a case of suicide." Then, with a wave of his hand, he said, "Take the prisoner back to the fortress." The woman uttered no word. She only fixed her big dark eyes upon me with an expression of abject terror, and then the guards led her out. From a drawer Zuroff took the precious document that had been stolen from me, saying
Through the whole year the adventure has sorely puzzled me, and only the other day light was thrown upon it in the following manner I was in Petersburg again, when I received a polite note from General Zuroff, the chief of police, requesting me to call upon him. The summons caused me considerable apprehension I must admit.
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