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       He knew that the family lawyer of the Bourbon

Parme had great influence over Elias, and he also knew that a friend of his own, named Mr. Z was on very intimate terms with the lawyer, and that furthermore Z was a very shrewd man of business. He accordingly put himself in Z's hands and explained the whole situation to him. Z saw the possibility of making some money for himself and for X and came to me in Paris with a photograph of the picture and told me the story which seemed to me to hang well together. I therefore went with him to Vienna, where the picture then was, and we were there about a month, in which time, to make a long story short, we induced the lawyer to come to our way of thinking and to advise the Prince to sell the picture.