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The building in which Killigrew and Corew personally It had cost him a roundit a fine invests caused Tholy In London

cubby-holes were sufficient Ifthe water-front; creaky, old, di country a man conducted his business as from a palace The

warehouses were distinct establishments

Thomas entered the portals, stepped cautiously into one of the

express-elevators (so they insisted upon calling them here), and was

shot up to the fourteenth floor, all of which was occupied by Killigrew

and Company It was Thomas' first venture in this district And he

learned the arew as it was to see King George Office-boys, ers; they quizzed and buffeted hiht to state at the outset that he was Mrs

Killigrew's private secretary; he merely said that it was very

irew at once

"Mr Killigrew is busy," he was inforer, at

whose desk Thoive me your card I'll

have it sent in to him"

Thorew

distinctly chilling