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Problem I. The Golden Slipper
"She‘s here! I thought she would be. She‘s one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium."
The gentleman thus addressed--a man of middle age and a member of the most exclusive clubs--turned his opera glass toward the spot designated, and in some astonishment retorted:
"She? Why those are the Misses Pratt and--"
"Miss Violet Strange; no other."
"And do you mean to say--"
"I do--"
"That yon silly little chit, whose father I know, whose fortune I know, who is seen everywhere, and who is called one of the season‘s belles is an agent of yours; a--a--"
"No names here, please. You want a mystery solved. It is not a matter for the police--that is, as yet,--and so you come to me, and when I ask for the facts, I find that women and only women are involved, and that these women are not only young but one and all of the highest society. Is it a man‘s work to go to the bottom of a comb
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