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round, with no inconvenience to thee which has

been set behind thereat deal of inconvenience, he was engaged one night working out a

scheme for the provision of municipal taxicabs, and he was so absorbed

in his wholly erroneous calculations that for sory voices raised outside the door of his private office

Perhaps it was that that portion of his mind which had been left free

to receive impressions holly occupied with a sche the wages of his new

secretary

But presently the noise penetrated even to him, and he looked up with a

touch of annoyance

"At this hour of the night!Goodness graciousrespectable

building!"

His disjointed comments were interrupted by the sound of a scuffle, an

oath, a crash against his door and a groan, and Bones sprang to the

door and threw it open

As he did so a ainst it fell in

"Shut the door, quick!" he gasped, and Bones obeyed

The visitor who had so rudely irrupted hi a coarse pea-jacket and blue jersey of a seaman, his peaked hat

covered with dust, as Bones perceived later, when the sound of

scurrying footsteps had died away