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BANNERDALE HAS NEVER BEEN IN VIENNA AT ALL,

AND THE REPORTERS HAVE BESIEGED

AN EMPTY HOUSE.

LORD STRANLEIGH, ENGLAND'S MULTI-MILLIONAIRE,

COMES TO BAD-NAUHEIM IN HIS SPECIAL

CAR TO MEET BANNERDALE,

WHO IS IN DISGUISE.

STRANLEIGH WILLING TO BACK BANNERDALE WITH

A HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS IN HARD

CASH IF NECESSARY.

"Panic and ruin among the anti-Bannerdales … Great South-Western Short Line stock jumps thirty-three points … Cable kept red-hot offering Bannerdale unlimited capital, but he isn't taking any … Believed in Wall Street that his illness was a bluff … Wall Street says cardiac trouble impossible, because Bannerdale has no heart."