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Maxwell turned over the card thoughtfully and studied the neat handwriting thereon. "We are dealing with one of the cleverest women in Europe," he said. "See how wonderfully she recovers her mistakes and picks up the tracks again. But I don't see that Maxgregor can have anything to do with it. What do you say, doctor?"
"I should say that Maxgregor had a great deal to do with it," Varney replied. "If he were not a deadly foe to these people here there would have been no attempt to shoot him as there was to-night. Do you think that he has been tracked back to his lodgings?"