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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET [Laying down the paper and looking up]

That writing is genuine.

Well, well. So Ellian MacGregor wrote that?

No. The Greek, Elina Makropoulos. It is the same handwriting that is in my letters. Unmistakably.

But the signature here—is

Elina Makropoulos. There was no such person as Ellian MacGregor, gentlemen. That letter is a mistake.

Upon my word! And the similarity of the photograph?

[He hands Prus the photograph]

[Looking it over]

Unmistakably the handwriting of Elina Makropoulos.

Well, well. And it is genuine, the signature on this letter?