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 FROM THE &quot;LONDON TIMES

��Correspondence of the &quot;London Times&quot;

CHICAGO, April i, 1904.

1 RESUME by cable - telephone where I left off yesterday. For many hours, now, this vast city along with the rest of the globe, of course has talked of nothing but the extraordinary episode mentioned in my last report. In accordance with your instructions, I will now trace the romance from its beginnings down to the culmination of yesterday or to-day; call it which you like. By an odd chance, I was a personal actor in a part of this drama myself. The opening scene plays in Vienna. Date, one o clock in the morning, March 31, 189-8. I had spent the evening at a social entertainment. About midnight I went away, in company with the military attaches of the British, Italian, and American embassies, to finish witfc a late smoke. This function had been appointed to take place in the house of Lieutenant Hillyer, the third attache mentioned in the above list. When we arrived there we found several visitors in the room: young

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