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THE SIGN OF SILENCE.
INTRODUCES A GENTLEMAN.
"Then it's an entire mystery?"
"Yes, Phrida."
"But it's astounding! It really seems so utterly impossible," declared my well-beloved, amazed at what I had just related.
"I've simply stated hard facts."
"But there's been nothing about this affair in the papers."
"For certain reasons the authorities are not exactly anxious for any publicity. It is a very puzzling problem, and they do not care to own themselves baffled," I replied.
We were lunching together at the Berkeley, in Piccadilly, one January day last year, and had just arrived at the dessert.
"The whole thing is quite bewildering, Teddy--an utter enigma," she exclaimed in a low, rather strained voice, her pretty, pointed chin resting upon the back of her hand as she gazed upon me from beneath those long, curved lashes.
"I remember," she said. "You once introduced me--at the opening of the Motor Show at Olympia, I believe. A very brilliant and famous man, isn't he?"
"But what?" queried my well-beloved.
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