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 from Ethel more about that confidential matter, she believed he did not know much.

No one in the office recalled Bagley. Considine said that if Bagley recently had acted upon instructions from Mr. Clarke, Bagley must have received them directly from Clarke. And this was what Bagley had said. However, investigation of the vouchers which had been paid through the office disclosed the fact that at different times in the past, Mr. Clarke had sent drafts to a D. A. Bagley. The man appeared to have several addresses. After much hesitation and additional questioning of Ethel, Considine supplied her with the last three places where letters had been mailed to Bagley.

Ethel called at them to discover the first to be a rooming house on North Lasalle Street, the proprietor of which vaguely recalled that a man named something like Bagley had stopped there between jobs about a year ago; the other numbers were of homes, one upon Drexel Boulevard and the other upon Sheridan Road, at which Bagley had served for a few months as butler. Ethel telephoned to Considine and reported to him the lack of result from her visits; he said he had no other suggestions to offer, but if Bagley communicated with the office, Considine agreed to inform her. She put an advertisement in the newspapers asking for information about D. A. Bagley, who recently had come from the upper peninsula; then she took a car again to the north side and, leaving it at Division she walked, carrying her suit case, into the district of those who are not dependent upon street cars, where is Scott Street.

It was midafternoon and she was tired and hungry after the too hasty and scanty luncheon she had taken