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The first chapter, a sort of prologue, is laid in a cafe in Colon where a stranger with very blue eyes and very black hair behaved in a somewhat precipitate manner. Then the scene shifts to Washington and the actual tale begins, when on a certain dark and stormy night Senator Carew of Maryland is found dead in his carriage; a sharp letter file buried in his breast and piercing his heart. The state of affairs looked complicated enough to Brett the detective and Douglas Hunter the dead man’s protege but soon the mystery was increased by a few words impressed on a blotter, the abrupt action of the Japanese Ambassador, the strange occurrences at the Navy department, and the sudden appearance, and yet more sudden disappearance, of the stranger with very blue eyes and very black hair.

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