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She crossed over to the post-office and dispatched a long telegram thus: "To David Steel, 15, Downend Terrace, Brighton. "Go to Walen's and ascertain full description of the tentative customer who suggested the firm should procure gun-metal cigar-case for him to look at. Ask if he was a tall man with a thin beard and a face slightly pock-marked. Then telephone result to me here.
Evidently this was strange ground to him. "I don't know anything about that," he said. "What sort of a cigar-case?" "Gun-metal set with diamonds. The same case or a similar one to that purchased by Van Sneck from Walen's in Brighton. Come, rack your brains a bit. Did you ever see anything of Van Sneck about the time of his accident? You know where he is?" "Yes.
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