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Philo Gubb sat in his office in the Opera House Block with a large green volume open on his knees, reading a paragraph of some ten lines. He had read this paragraph twenty times before, but he never tired of reading it. It began began --
_Gubb, Philo._ Detective and decorator, _b._ Higginsville, / Ia., June 26, 1868. Educated Higginsville, Ia., primary / schools. Entered decorating profession, 1888. Graduated with / honors, Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School / of Detecting, 1910.