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 continue my acquaintance with Miss Wellington; but it was plain that he wasn't depending much on me. He was taking to telegrams, scratching off any number of yellow sheets to go from the next stop.

It reminded me that, in my preoccupation at keeping Doris in sight after I found she was leaving the city, I hadn't 'phoned my office. I had thought I'd wire; but now I decided not to.

I didn't want Dibley to have any chance to oversee the fact that this trip was a last inspiration of mine. I immersed myself, ostensibly, in cost estimates of our new can and bottling plant which I happened to have in my pocket, while I felt myself sinking deeper and deeper into this game I'd entered with Cleopatra Doris Janvier.