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[[Letterhead]] Imperial Hotels, Ltd. Tokio.
(Imperial Hotel & Villa, and Metropole Hotel.)
[[hotel insignia]] CARL FLAIG, Gen. Manager.
Imperial Hotel & Villa [[/letterhead]]

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which has caused 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 Kobu, ^[[which]] were aimed in a big way and most devilish, at my purse.  Depletion of my purse as contemplated by the fiends, was bad enough, but they had other ambitions which to me and 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