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Title: The Traitors

Author: E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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THE TRAITORS

by

E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

Author of
"A Millionaire of Yesterday," "The
World's Great Snare," etc.

Illustrated

New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
1903

Copyright, 1902
By E. Phillips Oppenheim

Copyright, 1903
By Dodd, Mead & Company

First Edition published March, 1903

[Illustration: "MARIE ... SHOT THE MAN THROUGH THE HEART."]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"MARIE ... SHOT THE MAN THROUGH
THE HEART," _Frontispiece_

"'I BELIEVE,' HE SAID, 'THAT YOU OUGHT
TO KISS--MY HAND,'" 160

"NICHOLAS OF REIST STOOD ON THE
THRESHOLD," 220

"'THE WAR IS OVER,' HE CRIED," 342

The Traitors

CHAPTER I

"Down with the traitors! Down with the Russian spies! Down with
Metzger!"

Above the roaring of the north wind rose the clamour of voices, the
cries of hate and disgust, the deep groaning sobs of fierce and
militant anger. The man and the woman exchanged q