Word: baylee
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¶ Diplomatic convention provides that when a new Ambassador arrives in Washington, he array himself in a cutaway, pay a formal call at the White House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua...
As a dozen policemen rushed from offices in the Prefecture to collar Murderer Philipponet and clap him into a cell he screamed: "Monsieur Bayle committed an act of bad faith! My document was genuine! What I have done was worth the death of a father of five children!"
Despite his success in discovering murderers with nothing more than a scrap of cloth or a bloody hatchet to work on, crimes of violence did not interest the great Gaston Bayle.
It was a very clever fraud that first brought international recognition to Gaston Bayle, a stupid fraud that caused his death. Five years ago one Emil Fradin, a shrewd peasant lad, dug up a number of curiously inscribed brick and clay tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the...
Fortnight ago Gaston Bayle, in the course of a morning's routine work, proved fraudulent a document with which one Joseph Emile Philipponet, traveling salesman, had attempted to obtain a sum of money from his landlord. Last week the thwarted Philipponet came early to the Prefecture of Police, hung...