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 have; they came over at the same time. So I chased up Sally Westman; she hadn't brought Dot; but I ran on Tom Downs just coming in; this was twelve o'clock then, Steve.

Hello, Jerry,' he said to me. 'How the devil'd you beat me over here?'

When'd you leave the Sparlings'?' I said.

Just now; oh, three minutes ago.'

Was Dorothy Crewe over there?' I said.

When I left?' Tom said. 'Why, certainly; she was with you. You said you were coming over; but not right away. But you seem to have passed me.'

I've been here half an hour,' I said, and he laughed and went on. Thought I was joking and I thought he simply remembered seeing me with Dot before I came over and he got mixed on his time. I wasn't sure even that Dot had stayed at the Sparlings', so I asked some more people who had just come over; and they'd just left her at the Sparlings' with me, Steve!"

I didn't try to say anything now; he was trying to tell me as quickly as he could.

"They were positive about it and wondered how I got over so quick. Steve, I tell you it sent a shiver through me right then. I decided to go back to the Sparlings' to get her; so I