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people, I expect, and our plain-clothes man has something rather better to do than hang about in this stuffy little waiting-room all day."
The Archdeacon sighed. "So be it, Chloë," he said. "But you'll be sorry for this. You will, I assure you." Then, turning to the assembled authors, press agents, cinematographers and secretary—"Come, ladies and gentlemen," he said. "Let us go down to the strong-rooms."
In three journeys of the lift the whole party was conveyed below ground and assembled in the lobby, whence access was obtained to the Safe Deposit proper.
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"Now, ladies and gentlemen," said the Archdeacon, "if you will be so good as to wait here, I will go and fetch what I have to show you. The regulations of
