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"Have you seen her?" asked Bones

He put this question with such laboured unconcern that Halared suspiciously at his partner

"She's rather a beauty," Bones went on, toying with his ivory

paper-knife "She has one of those dinky bonnets, dear old thing, that

asped He had seen the beautiful Miss Whitland enter the

office half an hour before, but he had not noticed her head-dress

"Her body's dark blue, with teeny red stripes," said Bones dreas are nickel-plated----"

"Stop!" commanded Ha in this ribald fashion?"

"Wo about my car"

"Your car?"

"My car," said Bones, in the off-handed way that a sudden ht a car?"

Bones nodded

"It's a jolly good 'bus," he said "I thought of running down to

Brighton on Sunday"

Haot up and walked slowly across the roo of running down to Brighton, are you?" he said "Is

it one of those kind of cars where you have to do your own running?"

Bones, with a good-natured smile, also rose from his desk and walked to

the

"My car," he said, and waved his hand to the street

By craning his neck, Haet a view of the patch of

roadway i And

undoubtedly there was a car in waiting--a long, resplendent ht