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"A man must often want to know how he spent his money in a given year." "I'm sure I never want to," said Mr. Manley. "And certainly pass-books are unattractive-looking objects to have about." "All the same, they might have proved very useful in this case," said Mr. Flexen. "Of course, they wouldn't tell us anything we shall not find out eventually.
"It does explain several things," said Mr. Flexen dryly. "We know now why she was so hard to find why there was no trace of her relations with Lord Loudwater, no trace of Shepherd's managing the Low Wycombe property among his papers, why there were no pass-books." Mr. Carrington flushed and said: "The young scoundrel had us on toast all the while." "Toast is the word," said Mr. Flexen.
"It would never do, my dear madam," said he; "young ladies have quite a different sphere from that of ledgers and pass-books." "But I would do the work," said Jane, opening a ponderous volume that lay on the manager's table, and running up a column of figures with a rapidity and precision which he could not but admire.
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