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escaped his keen observation, and he had a trick of pigeon-holing

possibilities of profit, and forgetting them until the moment seemed

ripe for their exploitation He was tall and handsome, with a smile

which orth at least five thousand pounds a year to him, for it

advertised his boyish innocence and enthusiasm--he who had never been

either a boy or enthusiastic

One grey October day he put away his pass-book into a drawer and locked

it, and took froeon-hole the materials of an immature

scheme He dressed himself soberly and well, strolled down into

Piccadilly, and calling a cab, drove to the block of City buildings

which housed the flourishing business of Tibbetts and Hamilton, Limited

The preliminaries to this invasion had been very carefully settled He

had uerite Whitland by "accident" a week before, had

called at her lodgings with an old photograph of her father, which he

had providentially discovered, and had secured from her a somewhat

reluctant acceptance of an invitation to lunch

Bones looked up fro man strolled in

"You don't knowhis

fa with Bones, but by no means the first time

that Jackson had seen him