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THE neat messenger at Scotland Yard came back to Tony with the information that Mr. Elk would see him. Tony followed the official up many flights of stairs and along interminable corridors and came at last to a very tiny room and to a sprawling Elk.
-"Come in, Mr. Braid. Shut the door, messenger, will you? Do you mind coming farther into the room so that he can shut the door? It's the smallest room in Scotland Yard. I'm nobody. The Chief Commissioner will be making a cage and hanging it out of the window for me one of these days."