But I can soon tell you." He opened a drawer and consulted what looked like a book of receipt forms.

"Yes; H Weiss.

Do you know him, sir ?" "I knew a Mr.H.Weiss some years ago.

He came from Bremen, I remember." "This Mr.Weiss has gone back to Hamburg," the clerk observed.
"Ah," said Thorndyke, "then it would seem not to be the same.

My acquaintance was a fair man with a beard and a decidedly red nose and he wore spectacles." "That's the man.