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...reply came in time to be published with the despatches from Meerane. Everything seemed to be in order. A millionaire had died there recently, leaving provision for a working girl with a name something like Marie Drazdorf's, only this millionaire's name was not Scheffelbauer, but "Hans P. Leffelschmalz, the wienerschnitzer king." And Mr. Leffelschmalz had not exactly lived in Milwaukee; he had figured there in a fiction serial, written for a Milwaukee daily by one of its reporters. There was no record of a Mr. Scheffelbauer in Milwaukee, quick or dead. "Marie Drazdorf," advised the Milwaukee correspondent, "will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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