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The next evening when he arrived at the club he found Mr. Dinwiddie fuming.
"What do you think! " he exclaimed as he led his guest to his favorite table in the corner. "That old rascal bluffed me! Bluffed me. Said there was no relative of Countess Zattiany in the country that he knew of. Looked blank as a post when I told him of the extraordinary resemblance of that girl to Mary Ogden. Said he never heard of her. Laughed at the idea of a sub-rosa daughter. Pretended to be angry at such an aspersion on Mary's fair fame -- was in love with her himself like the rest of us. But he was lying and he knew that I knew he was lying. What'll you have?"