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 "Because I've just picked up a point or two from that bunch underneath us."

"I went to the telegraph office a couple of blocks up Richmond Street. That's the same street this hotel is on."

"Did any one tail yuh when yuh went to that office?"

"Tail me?"

"Yes, shadow yuh? Follow yuh there?"

The girl on the bed sat thinking it over.

"No, nobody followed me. I'm quite sure of that."

"But did yuh see anybody? Or pipe anything suspicious?"

"No, nothing in any way suspicious."

"And yuh're dead sure nobody followed yuh to that office?" persisted the other.

"Not a soul. The only person I saw, outside of the operator, was an old man already there. He was asking about a message. He said he was expecting a wire from his wife, on her way back from Mount Clements. He explained that he didn't know which train to meet."

"What did that old man look like? Think, dearie,