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Chettle! -- whom he had left only that morning in Hull, two hundred miles away, both of them agreed that the next step was still unseen, and that immediate action was yet problematical. Something had surely happened to bring Chettle up to town and to him.
"Show Mr. Chettle up here at once," he said to the waiter. "And here -- bring a small decanter of whisky and a syphon of soda-water and glasses. Be sharp with 'em."