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The Old Man in the Corner

CHAPTER XI
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"Mr.Verner is a personal friend of Mr.Andrew Campbell, and it appears that at Farringdon Street, where he was waiting for his train, he saw Mr.Campbell get out of a first-class railway carriage.

Mr.Verner spoke to him for a second, and then, just as the train was moving off, he stepped into the same compartment which had just been vacated by the stockbroker and the man in the tweed suit.

He vaguely recollects a lady sitting in the opposite corner to his own, with her face turned away from him, apparently asleep, but he paid no special attention to her.

He was like nearly all business men when they are travelling--engrossed in his paper.

Presently a special quotation interested him; he wished to make a note of it, took out a pencil from his waistcoat pocket, and seeing a clean piece of paste-board on the floor, he picked it up, and scribbled on it the memorandum, which he wished to keep.


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