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THERE was a conference at Scotland Yard, and outside that quaint "informants' door, " where shabby men come creeping in the dusk of evening to tell stories to the hurt of those who have mistakenly given them their confidence, two officers were waiting to escort a man who had not yet arrived.
Sir James Boyd Fowler, Chief Commissioner of the C.I.D., had in his office his superintendent and a detective inspector. The hour was short of five, and from time to time Mr. Bickerson looked up at the clock impatiently.