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MILLIONAIRE OF MYSTERY, fortune.

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Sir Bazil, spends most of hisj time at one or another of his ohaionar iz. France, or at Montu) Carlo taking fleeting trips to London and other capitals three ar four times a year. The peasants | jin the villages near hia various chateaux look upon him with the sams te za ̃ent admiration and wonder that bildren bestow upon falty godmother He is to them the greatest man in the world beside Marshal Foch. He owns |1,000,000,000 francs, they have. heard, and be is lavish in his gifts to them..

STILL A BACHELOR, -- Sir Basil now stars while in London at the Carlton Until recently he maintained a palatis! double suite in a. fashionable residential hotel in the West End. ite had kept the apartments twelve years, living in them three or four weeks each year. He is a bachelor.

The habitual casualness of the Today he lives in great philanthropist is illustrated magnificence and luxury leyond by the manner in which his gift the university dreams of ancient princes. He to the Sorbonna was made. He enjoys the fellowship of the elect, sauntered into the homage of beauty, the adula-buildings, and, conversing with tien of statemen, the esteem of a porter, asked quite incidentally The He dines with the where he could apply to endow a The life story of Sir Basilcholars. Zabarod, G. C., B. G. R. Erulers of nations. He can match Chair of Aeronautics.

gold, art treasures, castles, states, director afterwards infarmed him resident of London, Paris, Athens.

Monte Carla, hips, banks, and commercial en, that a chair in the Sorbonne Madrid,

The modern caliph produced his amaeser of magic millions, and terprises with any Cloetus of would rost no less than £23,000, platter of sensational bilanth-Europe.

Sir Basil it was whose influence magic cheque-book, Topic surprises is perhaps the strangest sale of riches and caused the Greeks to array themcheme for that amount, and un- romance in the history of modern selvis. with the Alles against ecernedly strolled out again. Europe. 'writes a correspondent Germany. His many helpful war in a British paner. No parallel jactivities won him the grateful any escapes from capture by to his remarkable career is to be recognition of a dozen countries, the Germans. Once during their the Arabian ang placed a startling price rush on Paris, they entered one found outside

upun mehead. and his every. end of the park of his chateau as Nights

movement became an especial he escaped at the other. mark of her espionage system..

He is an international power --

wrote

a

During the war Sir Basil had

his another CCASION Un The Millionaire of Mystery, as

steamer was stopped a day our he is called, is the uncrowned caliph of to-day: direct descen-

The caliph admits! dant of the romantic Haroun at this unassuming little man of from port by a German sube Raschid, celebrated in ancient mysters--but not one person in a marine.

tis story. He moves from une capital million knows anything about that at this point he thought hel

Even

business really was trapped. His quick sableringe. very mind seized on to another, 'nveloped always, as him.

affairs.however, and he went below. was the classic caliph of Betion, associates have learned

knowThe Huns broke in Sir Basil's is the cloak of mystery. Suddenly little conterning his he appears before some astonished They

do

not

Schebersade, bestows an amazing how much money he is worth, areabin, and found a man under how he amassed his fabulous the bank. Se strenuous were his gift, and as suddenly departs.

He gave £300,000 a year to the wealth. They have a knowledge; protests that work for the head Greek Government during the of his philanthropie eputr butions, and much rape for the body had the utemarine. hustled into Balkan ware. The city of Athens They can say where he is to to be used before he could be

which pushed off. received £100,000 from him for be found. the establishment of a radio-tele- presented graph station, He

UNIVERSAL PISANFIER." Sir Basil is one of the largest shareholders of Messrs. Vickers, Limited, and of a number or other He has great London Grme.

hipping interests in the north. 23 Control 14 reputed half a hundred banks, and to Tniversity of Petrograd. He gave hace extensive business interests £25,000 to Londen University for in all the principal cities

220,000 to a fund for training French athletes for the tympic Games. He established & Ulair the Paris of Aerantir- Sorbonne, at a cost of £28,000, 1

chair in the nat a similar

A Chair of Flying, and a

iik Eerope

Th

amount to Oxford for a Chair of

unctwww.ed potentate. French, Palatial legations for the who practically unknown, has Greek Government have been her

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The captain of the steamer was not a superstitions man, but when an hour later he found the caliph" standing at his elbow Le could have crossed himself.

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