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Imperial Hotels, Ltd. Tokio.
(Imperial Hotel & Villa, and Metropole Hotel.)
[[image:Imperial Hotels logo]]
CARL FLAIG, GEN. MANAGER.

Imperial Hotel & Villa.

which has caused very much bitter feeling against me, even in the minds of those whom for years. I have been on rather intimate terms, viz: - the Yamanaka's, Ushikubu, the Kioto Matsuki, Kobayashi, Ekeda & others. This course I found necessary in order to see the many private collections to which they are not admitted and also to protect myself against contemplated conspiracies which I quickly discovered after my landing at Kobe which were aimed in a big way, and most devilish, at my purse. Depletion of my purse as contemplated by the friends, was bad enough, but they had other ambitions which to me [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] and [[strikethough]] they [[/strikethrough]] them were more important. 

I was determined to whip them in all of their long-laid plans and also to secure, at least, a few choice objects of art without their assistance. The latter acquisition looked pretty hopeless but without causing me any alarm up to the day I wired asking the cable transfer of $10.000. That morning the doors of one of the temples here were thrown open to me and I was allowed to make selections from their treasures, but for

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