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"Siege?" I repeated incredulously. "Impossible. Why, only this
morning I was reading about his negotiations with a foreign
syndicate of bankers from southeastern Europe for a ten-million-
dollar loan to relieve the money stringency there. Surely there
must be some mistake in all this. In fact, as I recall it, one of
the foreign bankers who is trying to interest him is that Count
Wachtmann who, everybody says, is engaged to Miss Brixton, and is
staying at the house at Woodrock. Craig, are you sure nobody is
hoaxing you?"
"Read that," he replied laconically, handing me a piece of thin
letter-paper such as is often used for foreign correspondence.
"Such letters have been coming to Mr. Brixton, I understand, every
day."
The letter was in a cramped foreign scrawl:
JOHN BRIXTON, Woodrock, New York.
American dollars must not endanger the peace of Europe. Be
warned in time. In the name of liberty and progress we have
raised the standard of conflict without truce or quarter
against reaction.


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