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It certainly was a remarkable coincidence that the number seventeen should have cropped up again so significantly. Kelso and Denver exchanged glances but, so far as the girl was concerned, the information she had imparted conveyed little or nothing to her. Now that she had finished her story she seemed less eager and animated, and her white face had the same drawn and anxious look as when she had stopped Denver outside the theatre. It occurred to him that she was in trouble of some kind, entirely apart from her anxiety on Audrey Blair's account.
"I have told you all I can," she went on. "Of course, I may be wrong, but I do believe that it would be worth your while to follow it up. I am only a poor girl, and I can't do very much; besides, there are reasons why I can't be seen taking any part in this business. Mine has been a hard life, and I have had a great struggle to get where I am. You don't know what it is to live with a drunken father who ill-treats you if you can't give him any money. And I have got a brother, too--the less said about him the better."