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As the train moved out of the station, Thorndyke lifted his invaluable green canvas research case from the seat to the rack, and then, with the tenderest care, disposed similarly of a walking-stick of the most surpassing hideousness.
"That," I remarked, eyeing it with profound disfavour, "looks like one of Polton's contraptions."