Word: counterespion
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...near the Opera. Into that apartment French detectives broke last December to find, so they said, a pile of strange documents hidden behind a bureau, 19,000 francs in cash, and a chronometer and two magnifying glasses bound together.* Crying loudly that they had been framed by the French counterespion age service, the famed Denxieme Bureau, the Switzes were led off to separate jails, he to La Sante, she to La Petite Roquette. Since then they have met seldom. They were together briefly last week when police brought them to the Chambers of Magistrate Benon to cross-examine them separately...
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