[The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Agony Column CHAPTER III 15/21
But I rather wished he hadn't. Bray began to walk about the room, ignoring me. "White asters; scarab pin; Homburg hat," he detailed, pausing before the table where those strange exhibits lay. A constable came forward carrying newspapers in his hand. "What is it ?" Bray asked. "The Daily Mail, sir," said the constable.
"The issues of July twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth." Bray took the papers in his hand, glanced at them and tossed them contemptuously into a waste-basket.
He turned to Walters. "Sorry, sir," said Walters; "but I was so taken aback! Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.
I'll go at once--" "No," replied Bray sharply.
"Never mind.
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