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When he got home that evening with a whole sheaf of information on the subject of figurines which he had culled from the courteous authorities of the Museum, he found that the post had brought him the cover design for the _Paternoster Magazine_.
Martia Hare had not forgotten her end of the business, and her thoughtfulness contrasted with his own carelessness made him sit down to work with a determination to succeed. He lit a pipe, went over his notes, closed his eyes and waited for inspiration to come. Nothing came but Behrens asking him the question: "Would you, on the chance of making anything from five to twenty thousand pounds, take a risk, pack a bag, and go where I tell you?"