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DEAR SIR,
Re your advertisement, I should be glad if you would call round somewhere
about lunch-time.
"Yours truly,
"JULIUS P. HERSHEIMMER."
"Ha!" said Tommy. "Do I smell a Boche? Or only an American millionaire of
unfortunate ancestry? At all events we'll call at lunch-time. It's a good time--
frequently leads to free food for two."
Tuppence nodded assent.
"Now for Carter. We'll have to hurry."
Carshalton Terrace proved to be an unimpeachable row of what Tuppence called
ladylike looking houses." They rang the bell at No. 27, and a neat maid answered
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the door. She looked so respectable that Tuppence's heart sank. Upon Tommy's
request for Mr. Carter, she showed them into a small study on the ground floor
where she left them. Hardly a minute elapsed, however, before the door opened,
and a tall man with a lean hawklike face and a tired manner entered the room.
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Mr. Y. A.?" he said, and smiled. His smile was distinctly attractive. "Do sit down,
both of you."
They obeyed. He himself took a chair opposite to Tuppence and smiled at her
encouragingly. There was something in the quality of his smile that made the
girl's usual readiness desert her.
As he did not seem inclined to open the conversation, Tuppence was forced to
begin.
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We wanted to know--that is, would you be so kind as to tell us anything you
know about Jane Finn?"
"Jane Finn? Ah!" Mr. Carter appeared to reflect. "Well, the question is, what do
you know about her?"
Tuppence drew herself up.
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