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Five irl came into the office with a slip of paper

"The Plover Motor Car Coistered at 604, Gracechurch

Street," she said "It has a capital of eighty thousand pounds, of

which forty thousand pounds is paid up It has works at Kenwood, in

the north-west of London, and thedirector is Mr Charles O

Soames"

Bones could only look at her open-mouthed

"Where on earth did you discover all this surprising information, dear

hed quietly

"I can even tell you their telephone number," she said, "because it

happens to be in the Telephone Book The rest I found in the Stock

Exchange Year Book"

Bones shook his head in silent adan, but she had fled

An hour later Bones had evolved his enerous heart and his a optimism

Mr Charles O Soames, who sat at a littered table in his

shirt-sleeves, was a, heavy pipe,

and, at the

into life a new co and wealthy

He took the card from the hands of his very plain typist, and