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De Vega's plays, and the pages were wrinkled and yellow from age alone.
When, by dawn, the last page was dried out, there was no sign that
anything other than antiquity had affected the paper. And Bell wrapped
it carefully, and addressed it to an elderly senora of literary tastes
in San Juan, Porto Rico, and enclosed an affectionate letter to his very
dear aunt, and signed it with an entirely improbable name. It was mailed
before sunrise, the necessary stamps having been filched from the
burglarized bookstore and the price thereof being carefully inserted in
the till. Bell had made a complete and painstaking report of every fact
he had himself come upon in the matter of The Master and his slaves and
appended to it a copy of the report of the dead Secret Service operative
Number One-Fourteen. He destroyed that after copying it. And he
concluded that since he had been given dismissal by Jamison in Rio, he
considered himself at liberty to take whatever steps he saw fit. And
since the Senhorina Paula Canalejas had been kidnapped by agents of The
Master, he intended to take steps which might possibly bring about her
safety, but would almost certainly cause his death. The report should at
least be of assistance if the Trade set to work to combat The Master.
Bell had no information whatever about that still mysterious and still
more horrible person himself. But what he knew about The Master's agents
he sent to a lady in Porto Rico who has an astonishingly large number of
far ranging nephews. And then Bell got himself adequately shaved, bought
a hearty breakfast, and, after one or two heartening drinks, was driven
grandly to the residence of the Senor Francia, deputy of The Master for
the republic of Paraguay. * * * * * The servants who admitted him gazed
blankly when he gave his name. A door was hastily closed behind him. He
was ushered into an elaborate reception room and, afte