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Armitage wrote:
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"MONSIEUR:
"Your assassin is a clumsy fellow and you will do well to send him back
to the blacksmith shop at Toplica. I learn that Monsieur Durand,
distressed by the delay in affairs in America, will soon join you--is
even now aboard the _Tacoma_, bound for New York. I am profoundly
grateful for this, dear Monsieur, as it gives me an opportunity to
conclude our interesting business in republican territory without
prejudice to any of the parties chiefly concerned.
"You are a clever and daring rogue, yet at times you strike me as
immensely dull, Monsieur. Ponder this: should it seem expedient for me to
establish my identity--which I am sure interests you greatly--before
Baron von Marhof, and, we will add, the American Secretary of State, be
quite sure that I shall not do so until I have taken precautions against
your departure in any unseemly haste. I, myself, dear friend, am not
without a certain facility in setting traps."
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Armitage threw down the pen and read what he had written with care.
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