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"Miss Fairfax of Virginia" is a romance of love and adventure set across Europe. In the period preceding the Hispano-American War, secret agents were employed in many European capitals in the endeavor to discover the true sentiments of the powers most interested, so that in case unhappy Spain seemed in a way to secure an ally, prompt measures might be taken to head off the threatened blow by a sudden coup d'etat, in which Great Britain stood ready to do her part. Roderic Owens, a spy has been sent to the latest threat region, Dublin, Ireland. As he meets up with an informant, she reveals that there is a plot to kill him and make it look like he has run off with a well-known adventuress to the gaming tables of Monte Carlo…
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