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ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN "I wish it were that way in Plainton," said Mrs. Cliff, with a sigh. "I would go back there the moment another ship started from France."

So it was Miss Edna Markham of New York who took apartments at the Hôtel Boileau, and it was she who called upon the wife of the American secretary of legation. 255