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Geoffrey, was as A

business was at that lowed unusually rosy because of its re papers--the Times

for study and the Mail for entertainment and then passed on into the

restaurant His waiter--a tall soldierly Prussian,and, with a nod and a mechanical German smile,

set out for the plate of strawberries which he kneould be the first

thing desired by the American West seated hi out the Daily Mail, sought his favorite coluhted senuine or they would write to lish journalisnize at once

what depart his three

weeks in London he had been following, with the keenest joy, the daily

grist of Personal Notices in the Mail This string of inti been an honored

institution in the English press In the days of Sherlock Holmes it

was in the Times that it flourished, and many a criminal was tracked

to earth after he had inserted soave it room; but, with the advent of halfpenny

journalism, the simple souls moved en masse to the Mail