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After a prolonged silence, Dick spoke again, solemnly: "I should like to meet her"

"Whom?"

"Miss--Quincy, did you call her?"

"Oh! Isn't she rather out of your class?"

"Pshaw! Don't talk of classes, now that you're out of college Do you

know anything about her?"

"Nothing," said Ellery shortly "I don't consider it o

beyond my official relations"

"Well, I haven't any business relations not to go beyond," said Dick

"So I mean to pursue the inquiry"

"Do as you like," Ellery answered "Is that what you ca his n You don't know est

man on the force, and he's a corker I've learned more from him about

bad smells than I did in two years of chemistry at New Haven He knows

this town froreat

friends' Seriously, Norris, I've begun to get hold of just the facts I

wanted about 'the combine', and it's information that is so very

definite and to the point that I believe I can make it hot for the that is to their