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THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
"No, you blitherer; Sloane Street."
"Ah, yes," he murmured. "Outside the Record Office, wasn't it?"
"No, old fool. Inside the Safe Deposit."
"Of course, of course. This day week, you said, didn't you; and at four o'clock a.m. precisely?"
"My garters!" she cried. "I said tomorrow, and at midday."
"Perfectly, perfectly; "my dear Mrs. Dunkle," he cooed. "Yes, yes, I've got all that down. You may depend on us absolutely. The man you require shall be there. He will be wearing a black bowler hat, a black morning coat and waistcoat, striped trousers and brown boots. His necktie will be Cambridge blue, with a small pearl and ruby pin in it. He will, in a word, be got up to pass as a rich client of the Safe Deposit who has come
