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Gwen Griffin had appointed half-past eight as the hour to meet her mysterious friend "Red Mullet" outside the "Tube" station at the corner of Queen's Road, Bayswater.
Immediately after dinner she had slipped up to her room, exchanging her silk blouse for a stuff one, and putting on her hat and fur jacket, went out, leaving her father alone in the study. He was -- as now was his habit every evening -- busy making those bewildering calculations, as he tested the various numerical ciphers upon the original Hebrew text of Ezekiel.