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Mr. Bernard Graham was sitting in his gloomy office in Devereux Court one afternoon a few days later.
His elbows rested upon his littered writing-table, his pince-nez poised upon his thin nose, and he was absorbed in the technicalities of a document when his lad entered with a card.