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The afternoon of December 16th, 1914 -- the 135th day of the war -- was grey and gloomy in Northumberland Avenue, that short thoroughfare of high uniform hotels and buildings.
The street-lamps had just been lit around Trafalgar Square when Lewin Rodwell passed out of the big hall of the Constitutional Club, and down the steps into the street. At the moment a newsboy dashed past crying the evening papers.