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 enough to satisfy the exacting tastes of this connoisseur of modes. She was a charming figure as she sat on the old stone balustrade that bounded the terrace. The still water beneath reflected the pointed towers of Farniente and the great chestnut trees in the park.

"I'm so sorry," she said. "I don't think I have anything in green. You are a most versatile person. Do you undertake the millinery details for all the new republics?"

Her touch of irony, if it was irony, did not at all abash Cointreau. His enthusiasm was irresistible.

"Few of the republics, Fräulein, have such reasons for enlisting one's codperation."

"I had no idea the League was so far-reaching in its organization."

"We try to give Service. You see, we've learned a great deal from the American experts who come to Geneva, One of the things Illyria needs just now is Publicity. We'll get some good photographs into the American Sunday papers, first thing you know the tourists will be coming