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Show Has World Heard Last of Kreuger? Writer Sure International Swindler's "Suieide" Was a Fake. So you think Kreuger Is dead? Well, so do most people. But not In Sweden. There only a few people think Ho, Maria Lagar asserts, In Prager Tagbiat, Prague. Virtually nobody. It is the talk of Ihe country. coun-try. And what, are they Haying? That, of course, he Is alive. Where does he live? In hiding, of course. No one Hiispi-clK It, and we shall say nothing more about It, but the fact is that he Is living In tbe Ukraine. A great man, a man of such Htature, . especially one who did everything In such style, doesn't commit suicide. It doesn't appeal to hlni. Do you know the story about tbe nuns? Well, here It Is. Two nuns were praying at his deathbed which was most suspicious In Itself. For why should a Proieslunt have French nuns praying over him when he Is dead? But do you know how many nuns left the death chamber? Three. Whoever saw his body? Count them just two persons. Liturin, his most intimate companion, and Miss Rokmnnn, his secretary. And the doctor. But the doctor saw only a dead body ; he hail never seen Kreuger alive. Remember that. The doctor shrugged his shoulders whenever people talked to him about It. He saw a body, but what does a body amount to? You can buy one for 25 francs in the morgue. Moreover, what they said about the body sounds suspicious. Y'ou know what the pallbearer In Stockholm Stock-holm said who carried Ivar Kreu-ger's Kreu-ger's casket? That he had never carried such a light one, and that he had never known there to be such a strong smell of wax at a cremation. The pallbearer has a wide acquaintance ac-quaintance that Includes most of the people I know. He Is a fine fellow, very affable. But what concerns me Ih Dint I know the woman who spoke to tbe doctor herself I" per-soii. per-soii. You may not believe the pallbearer, pall-bearer, but you must believe the iloclor. No, not the doctor In PnrlH, Ihe other doctor who Is much more Important, the doctor whom Ivar Kreuger lias to thank for bis new face. The things you can do with operations oper-ations nowadays ! A new nose, new cheeks, a new forehead, a new chin, Ivar Kreuger can walk unconcerned along every street in Ihe 1,'lcrnlno. Nobody recognizes hlni, for the doctor doc-tor Is an arllst and I know tbe woman wom-an who talked to him. |