One day last week an impatient, high-nosed lady with flashing dark eyes paced the deck of the steamer Rumania in Istanbul harbor. She was Mme Zahra Lilie Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant, whose great adventure had become a sad denouement. For months in Athens she had befriended Fugitive Samuel Insull. She had successfully smuggled him off on the steamer Maiotis. She had befuddled the Athens police so badly that she faced a charge of perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum...
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