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Chapter 11 Who Smoked the Gregorides BrandI left the presence of the Japanese Emperor deeply disheartened. It is true I had myself foretold this failure, and that his Japanese majesty and his advisers had been good enough to compliment me in almost extravagant terms on the energy and resourcefulness I had shown in baffling the enemies of peace. But I am unaccustomed to defeat, no matter what are the odds against me, and I felt that the first point in the game had been scored against by the formidable woman whose beauty and strangely composite character had fascinated me, even while I was countermining her. For my work was not yet over. Indeed, it had but just begun. I had not succeeded in averting war between the two great Powers of Asia. But I hoped to thwart the efforts wh