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A little before one o'clock on the following afternoon Ellis called up Geoffrey Rust on the telephone, at the office in Great Bower Street, and having assured himself that the man he wanted was at the other end of the wire, suggested that Rust should jump into a taxi, and come round to their club and lunch with him. He would not keep Rust long, he said, but he particularly wanted to see him on an urgent personal matter.
"Don't comment on it," he said. "Don't say a word, but come without saying where you are going."