Well, for the matter of that: How are you, Mister Wertheimer?" Their hands fell apart, and Monsieur Duchemin proceeded to do away his hat and stick and chamois gloves; while his friend, straddling in front of a cold grate and extending his hands to an imaginary blaze, covered with a mild complaint the curiosity excited by a brief study of that face of melancholy.

But without waiting to be denied this information, Mr. Wertheimer continued: "Going on the evidence of your looks and temper, you've been down to Tilbury Docks this afternoon to see Karslake and Sonia off.

"Which," Wertheimer continued, standing, "is why we arranged to give him that billet with the British Legation in Peking.

But Wertheimer would not hear him.

" "Accepted," said Wertheimer airily, "to take effect at once.

And Wertheimer resuming his chair, the two remained for some moments in silence, a silence so doggedly maintained on both sides that Duchemin was presently aware of dull gnawings of curiosity.

Wertheimer replied lazilyand knocked out his pipe"I merely dropped in to say good-bye.

"'The wind bloweth where it listeth,'" Wertheimer affirmed.

XIII ATHENAIS In London, about noon of that day, a gentleman whom Lanyard most often thought of by the name of Wertheimer deciphered a code message whose contempt for customary telegraphic brevity was quite characteristic of the sender, indeed a better voucher for his bona fides than the initials appended in place of a signature.

Since Wertheimer had passed the word on, the name of the Comte de Lorgnes would be published to the world in the morning papers, and by evening the birds, if they were wise, would be in full flight.

Three days before, immediately on arriving in New York and installing himself in this hotel, to whose management he was well known from other days, he had cabled Eve de Montalais and Wertheimer.

RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, EGON.

Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (A); 6Feb70; R479804.

SEE WERTHEIM, E. WERTHEIMER, EGON RANSHOFEN-. SEE RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, EGON.

SEE WERTHEIM, E. WERTHEIMER, EGON RANSHOFEN-. SEE RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, EGON.

By Max Wertheimer.

Valentin Wertheimer (PPW); 9Jul73; R555274.

SEE WERTHEIM, E. WERTHEIMER, EGON RANSHOFEN-. SEE RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, EGON.

SEE WERTHEIM, E. WERTHEIMER, EGON RANSHOFEN-. SEE RANSHOFEN-WERTHEIMER, EGON.

By Max Wertheimer.

Valentin Wertheimer (PPW); 9Jul73; R555274.

Designed by Le Brun, formerly in the "Hamilton Palace" Collection and purchased (Wertheimer) for £12,075 the pair.

The late Samson Wertheimer, then in Greek Street, Soho, was steadily making a reputation by the excellence of the metal mountings of his own design and workmanship, which he applied to caskets of French style.

WEEKES, J.E., 19, Sinclair Gardens, W. WELLARD, CHARLES, St. Leonard Street, Bromley-by-Bow. WERTHEIMER, ASHER, 154, New Bond Street, W. WERTHEIMER, CHARLES, 21, Norfolk Street, Park Lane, W. WESTMINSTER, HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF.

WEEKES, J.E., 19, Sinclair Gardens, W. WELLARD, CHARLES, St. Leonard Street, Bromley-by-Bow. WERTHEIMER, ASHER, 154, New Bond Street, W. WERTHEIMER, CHARLES, 21, Norfolk Street, Park Lane, W. WESTMINSTER, HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF.