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It was some hours later on the same afternoon that Joe Musgrave had lost the mysterious snuff-box for the second time, and Beaucaire and Phasy were closeted in the former's flat, deeply engaged in some rascally scheme, as was to be seen from the expressions on their faces.
The mask was dropped for the moment and each looked exactly what he was--an adventurer in search of prey. Spread out before them on the dining-room table was a large continental railway map, marked here and there at certain junctions with crosses in blue pencil.