[The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tracer of Lost Persons CHAPTER VII 7/14
No charges will be made unless the person searched for is found. _Blanks on Application._ WESTREL KEEN, Manager. Harren raised his clear, gray eyes.
"I assume this statement to be correct, Mr.Keen ?" "You may safely assume so," said Mr.Keen, smiling. "Does this statement include _all_ that you are prepared to undertake ?" The Tracer of Lost Persons inspected him coolly.
"What more is there, Captain Harren? I undertake to find lost people.
I even undertake to find the undiscovered ideals of young people who have failed to meet them.
What further field would you suggest ?" Harren glanced at the card which he held in his gloved hand; then, very slowly, he re-read, "the whereabouts of anybody _on earth_," accenting the last two words deliberately as he encountered Keen's piercing gaze again. "Well ?" asked Mr.Keen laughingly, "is not that sufficient? Our clients could scarcely expect us to invade heaven in our search for the vanished." "There are other regions," said Harren. "_Ex_actly.
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