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The Sleeper Trunk Smuggling Ring Unmasked
Hortense Delaro aids a Paris New York smuggling conspiracy that defrauded the United States of a million dollars annually. Garcier plots retaliation and Hortense exposes the network after a dinner confrontation revealing her agency. US and French officials round up modistes milliners and importers involved.
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Hortense
New York
Garcier
France
Secret Service
Uncle Sam
Armand Gardier
No Atlantic Transportation Company
United States
Hortense Delaro
Armand Garcier
Paris
Frank Fawcett
Philip Philipson
Fawcett
Philipson
Delaro
Ocean
Robert Ox Oe
Express
Sicily
Lucien Murat
Lucien
Murat
Garther
Nelson A. Henry
Austin F. Montagne
Loeb
American Line
John Elliott Mason
Nelly Grant
Robert Burke
Mason
San Francisco
Burke
Schwartz