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“So by two-thirty I was feeling no more trepidation about the oncoming appointment than I would at any routine visit of a normal client. Nor, when he entered, did Intil seem in any way abnormal. Even Miss Delamere’s searching look at his back, as she left him with me, only amused me with the reflection that a woman bears a grudge against any man who is absent-minded enough not to notice her.
“Will you,” I said, “if you have not done so, put your clue or code or whatever it is, in an opaque envel...ope?”
He hadn’t, and I handed him one from my desk. His hand, I noticed, shook as he inserted the thin single slip of paper into the envelope. Then he raised it to his lips to seal it, but paused, looked over the top of it at me, and then, evidently forgetting that he hadn’t sealed it, slipped it into his pocket. It didn’t matter, so long as he kept it there. Miss Brown’s surface mind would catch no clue with which to confuse her deeper consciousness.
“I’ve brought the cash,”MoreLess
“Will you,” I said, “if you have not done so, put your clue or code or whatever it is, in an opaque envel...ope?”
He hadn’t, and I handed him one from my desk. His hand, I noticed, shook as he inserted the thin single slip of paper into the envelope. Then he raised it to his lips to seal it, but paused, looked over the top of it at me, and then, evidently forgetting that he hadn’t sealed it, slipped it into his pocket. It didn’t matter, so long as he kept it there. Miss Brown’s surface mind would catch no clue with which to confuse her deeper consciousness.
“I’ve brought the cash,”MoreLess
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