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When Naball left the two young men, he went straight to the Detective Office in order to get some one to look after Keith Stewart, and see that he did not leave Melbourne. Naball did not believe that he was going to meet any one that night, and wanted to find out why he was going to the station.
"If he wanted to give me the slip," he thought, "he wouldn't have told me he was going to the railway station -- humph! can't make out what he's up to."