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Show KING EDWARD'S BLACKLIST Scandnls in High Llfo Are Carefully Care-fully Recorded in His Majesty's Ma-jesty's B6ok. People ptebcnted at tho court of St. James are often astonished and gratified grati-fied by King Edward's wonderful knowledge of them and his extraordinary extraor-dinary memory for faces and Incidents. They are still more astonlPhcd when' If years later they meet tho lung thoy find he has, not forgotten them nor the occasion of their last rro'lng The secret of this feat of me. -iry lies In a book wherein Is registered details of tho Itveb of all persons who hnve been or are likely to be presented at court. I:i It are entered besides the names, c.oltills of family, career, and suggestions aa to what the king shall say t.a ! alter a presentation (what was said. V- uo ono has an audience without with-out special Invitation, there Is always al-ways time for the gentlemen In waiting wait-ing to placo before the king tho necessary neces-sary Information. Another book a sort of a Foclal blacklist contains details ot scandals In high lite and Is kept so that the court may bo free from peoplo of questionable ques-tionable antecedents. |