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And the old banker looked into the eyes of the young Beauty , and almost smiled in response to her low , derisive laugh . `` He came to-day , then ? '' she asked . `` Yesterday , '' corrected Mr. Bugbee ; `` at noon , he landed from my steam-yacht , in the very heart of London . So much for the international police . '' `` Do they know ? '' said Mrs. Oswald Carey .