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And you forged these names?" asked Jimmy, horrified.
I didn't forge anybody's name," replied the girl. "I made them up."
You mean there are no such men?"
As far as I know there are not," she replied, laughing.
Slowly Jimmy drew the letters from his inside pocket and read them one by one,
spreading them out upon the table before him. Presently he looked up at the girl.
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Why don't you get a position again as a stenographer?" he asked.
I have been thinking of it," she said; "do you want me to?"
Yes," he said, "I want you to very much."
It will be easy," she said. "There is no reason why I shouldn't except that there
was no one ever cared what I did."
As she finished speaking they were both aware that a man had approached their
table and stopped opposite them. Jimmy and the girl looked up to see a large
man in a dark suit looking down at Eva. Jimmy did not recognize the man, but he
knew at once what he was.
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