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Leaving my side my companion advanced towards the man and whispered some confidential words that I could not catch, at the same time pulling something from his breast-pocket and showing it to him. "Oh, yes, sir. No doubt abawt it!" I heard the man exclaim. Then, in reply to a further question from Jevons, he said: "'Arry 'Arding used to work at Curtis's.
You did not hear that you were wanted before?" The watery eyes of the cabman protruded painfully; he respired like a horse. "ME, guv'nor!" he exclaimed. "Gor'blime! I ain't the bloke! I was drivin' back from takin' the Honorable 'Erbert 'Arding 'ome same as I does almost every night, when the 'ouse is a-sittin' when I see old Tom Brian drawin' away from the door o' Palace Man "
'Arding is my name, sir. If you get a call from 'Enery 'Arding, you'll know that I 'ave a word to say to you." So it happened about three days later that our American journalist in his London hotel received a letter that a Mr. Henry Harding desired to speak with him. The man was waiting in the hall dressed in quiet tweeds.
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