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Romance in Cairo Rugs Plot and a Mysterious Visitor
In a Cairo hotel, George Percival Algernon Jones, vice president of the Metropolitan Oriental Bug Company, grows entangled with a guarded bundle and a mysterious man named Ryanne. The scene sketches romantic intrigue amid a cosmopolitan crowd as Jones contemplates a rug sale and the edge of danger under a veil of hospitality.
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George Percival Algernon Jones
Metropolitan Oriental Bug Company of
New York
Cairo
Hersee Evanne
George
God
Dee
Mr. Ryanne
George P. A. Jones
Mr. Jones
Gioconda
Horace
Heroffer
Ryanne
Georges
Cork
Ryan
Lalique
Percival Algernon
Wadsworth
Egypt
Moses
Constantinople
Smyrna
House of
Mortimer & Jones
Braine
Gecrge
Royanne
Orient
Pedro Marias
Abdul
Bagdad
Mecca
Suleiman the Great
Tigris
Officaa