The Secrets of Potsdam

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Le Queux William. The Secrets of Potsdam

SECRET NUMBER ONE. THE TRAGEDY OF THE LEUTENBERGS

SECRET NUMBER TWO. THE CROWN-PRINCE'S REVENGE

SECRET NUMBER THREE. HOW THE KAISER PERSECUTED A PRINCESS

SECRET NUMBER FOUR. THE MYSTERIOUS FRAU KLEIST

SECRET NUMBER FIVE. THE GIRL WHO KNEW THE CROWN-PRINCE'S SECRET

SECRET NUMBER SIX. THE AFFAIR OF THE HUNCHBACKED COUNTESS

SECRET NUMBER SEVEN. THE BRITISH GIRL WHO BAULKED THE KAISER

SECRET NUMBER EIGHT. HOW THE CROWN-PRINCE WAS BLACKMAILED

SECRET NUMBER NINE. THE CROWN-PRINCE'S ESCAPADE IN LONDON

SECRET NUMBER TEN. HOW THE KAISER ESCAPED ASSASSINATION

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You will recollect our first meeting on that sunny afternoon when, in the stuffy, nauseating atmosphere of perspiration and a hundred Parisian perfumes, we sat next each other at the first roulette table on the right as you enter the rooms at Monte Carlo?

Ah! how vivid it is still before my eyes, the jingle of gold and the monotonous cries of the croupiers.

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At table the talk ran upon Leutenberg's sudden promotion, whereupon the Minister Hoffmann declared:

"His Majesty only gives reward when it is due. When he discerns talent he is never mistaken."

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