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you. After all, one young man is much like another."

I repudiate that remark utterly. I'm sure my pleasing features and distinguished

appearance would single me out from any crowd."

"My plan is this," Tuppence went on calmly, "I'll go alone to-morrow. I'll put him

off again like I did to-day. It doesn't matter if I don't get any more money at once.

Fifty pounds ought to last us a few days."

Or even longer!"

You'll hang about outside. When I come out I shan't speak to you in case he's

watching. But I'll take up my stand somewhere near, and when he comes out of

the building I'll drop a handkerchief or something, and off you go!"

Off I go where?"

Follow him, of course, silly! What do you think of the idea?"

Sort of thing one reads about in books. I somehow feel that in real life one will

feel a bit of an ass standing in the street for hours with nothing to do. People will

wonder what I'm up to."

Not in the city. Every one's in such a hurry. Probably no one will even notice you

at all."

"That's the second time you've made that sort of remark. Never mind, I forgive

you. Anyway, it will be rather a lark. What are you doing this afternoon?"

Well," said Tuppence meditatively. "I HAD thought of hats! Or perhaps silk

stockings! Or perhaps----"

Hold hard," admonished Tommy. "There's a limit to fifty pounds! But let's do

dinner and a show to-night at all events."

Rather."

The day passed pleasantly. The evening even more so. Two of the five-pound

notes were now irretrievably dead.

They met by arrangement the following morning and proceeded citywards.

Tommy remained on the opposite side of the road while Tuppence plunged into

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