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BARNEY AND KING LEAR
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Barney had spent his day around the General Post Office waiting to pick up a suspect, whom he had never seen, and follow him—he did not know whither—so as to get evidence of he did not know what. He had had his instructions and a photograph; that was all; and he had not asked anything more. He was not curious. He was becoming highly professional. He did not even worry over the fact that he had failed to catch his man. And having been relieved by another member of Babbing's staff, he was on his way home to his supper, now, with a free mind.
But if you except that he was tired and hungry and expecting a warm meal and a soft
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