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ROSENTHAL THE JEW

"'It is too much,' said I, 'especially as we did not liberate the other prisoners.'

" 'It was the price agreed,' he said, 'but if you say so I will take off ten per cent. for cash.'

" 'Even then it is too much. There were the jewels which you gave to Trocas——'

"Rosenthal chuckled. 'They were imitations,' said he. 'I got them in New York. Those I left with little Jacob were also imitations. I knew my little brother's weaknesses,' he added, and the tears gushed out of his eyes."

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