Rescuing the Czar / Two authentic diaries arranged and translated

ll sorts of flowers and vigorous vegetation that characterizes this region," the letter reads. "Behind the ivy-covered wall that extends around the gardens and shuts out all intruders, I got a

o a boy who scampered up to him ahead of four beautiful girls and a very d

ent and asked a few questions in Russian. He seemed to be li

y were about ten feet from where I stood concealed behind one of the massive palms, the man raised his head from the page and, looking earnestly into the woman's eyes, exclaimed in a skeptical tone: 'Il n'aurait jamais cru le fait si ces messieurs n'avaient pu lui jurer L'avoir v

m certain that he is not a Frenchman,-although his accent would have proclaimed him a native of the Avenue des Cha

refined simplicity of his family and the strict guard the Government has furnished to protect his undisturbed retirement. Others hint that h

one of the richest tea merchants in the Empire. He declines all membership in any of the clubs, apparently satisfied

information given out about them by the chivalrous tea merchant or the Government off

come from different sources to check up the information that some others may possess. In this way will the letter of an American who was held incommunicado at Geneva by the Swiss Government in the latter part of 1919, be found exceedingly persuasive in the process of reconstructing the tragic comedy which struts around the vacant Russian throne. The American was en route to

upon the world. He is now resting in Tasmania after going through one of the most remarkable experiences ever given to an ordinary tea merchant intrusted with some secrets of the greatest land monopoly in the world. You may c

e of this kind, and he knew his correspondent to be sufficiently versed in the underground politics of Europe to look for a connection between some member of that expedition and the subject mentioned in the two foregoing letters. This connection was innocently revealed by a newspaper r

in a Bolshevik encounter. He had greatly recovered when the call was made and an opening naturally presented for

iend of the missing Czar. Before he finally passed in his chips he gave me a bundle of paper diaries he had stolen down in China, and he asked me to return them to their rightful owner so that he might die without a sin upon his conscience. Honestly,

sure," was

e Captain extracted two begrimed and blood-smeared rol

leaf fell to the floor. Upon picking it up, there was fou

I have seen with my own eyes I know is true. For the sake of Russia I stoled these papers from the man

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see the name of Fox here and there through

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find out whether that fellow 'Fox' grabs the peacherino from the

was asked: "Any idea who wrote this diar

h against Kerensky and Lvov. I know e

of the Revoluti

p with the Russian Royal family at Tobolsk and Tumen. There's a lot of our fel

Tussaud's, when the messenger jumped from his motorcycle and

s some glo

behind. Let her overtake you. If she utters the correct phrase, go with her at once to Admiralty Arch and follow the Life Guard to the War Office. Meet number ... there;

is all there!" compl

Huis ten-Bosch poin

re. They suspect Downi

Bosch too, where the C

Conference in 1899; t

Captain; "that fellow

brushed o

out Berlin. Your man walks thr

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eturn to life through the pa

decided not to alter a line or letter. Truth will be better served by publishing what is prudent, under t