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The lank young man, wearing a long brown linen coat over his untidy clothes, his fingers smeared with grease, his hair considerably ruffled, stood on the threshold of the little restaurant in Drury Lane, looking around, obviously in search of some one. He nodded to Bliss patronisingly.
"Chap from the Sun Motor Works," the latter remarked to his companion. "Come to look for one of their drivers, I suppose."