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. . . something, somebody was there in that sound-proof
room thirty stories above the street.

The Chain

BY HAMILTON CRAIGIE

Qearrier entered the taxi with an uneasy sense of crisis.

He was not imaginative; his digestion was excellent; even at forty, an age when most men nowadays have begun to feel the strain of fierce business competition, Quartier was almost the man that he had been ten years in the past.

Nerves and Quartier were strangers; he smoked his after-dinner cigar in a rigorous

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