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is feminine wiles and feminine graces that rule our world. Man is but a poor mortal
at best, easily moved to sympathy by a woman’s tears, and as easily misled by the
touch of a soft hand or a passionate caress upon the lips. Diplomacy is inbom in
woman, and although every woman is not an adventuress, yet one and all are clever
actresses when the game of love is being played” (Le Queux 61). With selfjustiflcations like this in the pursuit of injustice, for a while, Ralph becomes
complicit in the disruptions swirling in the wake of the murder. In Ralph’s case,
actually, “feminine wiles” and passi