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From: Baskette <inc...@it...> - 2009-08-23 10:53:31
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Ake another, and had pleaded earnestly to let him have one on trust, a request with which he dared not comply--but fortunately, a porter found and restored the ticket. "Is the porter you refer to still here?" asked Charlie. Yes, he was there; and Charlie soon found him. The porter recollected the incident perfectly, for the old gentleman, he said, had made a considerable fuss about the lost ticket. "And you can't remember the station he went to?" "No, sir, but I do remember something about his saying he wanted to go to Whitechapel--I think it was--or Whitehall, I forget which, but I'm sure it was white something." With this very slender clue Charlie Brooke presented himself in due time at Scotland Yard, at which fountain-head of London policedom he gave a graphic account of the missing m |