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AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE


religious function, at a shop in the Quai Masséna. He cut out the centre, and, see here——' The Commissary turned it over, and showed a piece of paper pasted neatly over the back; this he tore off,
Madame Picardet withdrew her balance.
and there, concealed behind it, lay a folded cheque, with only the place where the signature should be written showing through on the face which the Seer had presented to us. 'I call that a neat trick,' the Commissary remarked, with professional enjoyment of a really good deception.

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