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Three people sat in the Board Room of the Victory Finance Company -- Captain James Wraile, his wife, and Mr. Travers Lessingham. A fire burnt in the hearth, the blinds were down, and the clock on the mantelpiece recorded 6.23. Lessingham was speaking, in a low and rather nervous voice.
"The fellow was at my hotel yesterday -- they gave him my Brussels address. It's ten to one that he's out there now."