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XVII. The Man Who Was No. 16

past two we enter the suite of Mrs. Van Snyder. And now, what significant

There was a pause, no significant fact striking either of them.

“There wasn’t such a thing as a trunk in the room, was there?” asked Albert, his eyes lighting suddenly.

“ Mon ami ,” said Tommy. “You do not understand the psychology of an American woman who has just returned from Paris. There were, I should say, about nineteen trunks in the room.”

“What I meantersay is, a trunk’s a handy thing if you’ve got a dead body about you want to get rid of⁠—not that she is dead, for a minute.”

“We searched the only two that were big enough to contain a body. What is

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