Norman Shelley
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Meanwhile, I'd like you to remain in Birmingham and make yourself useful.
Certainly, how?
Well, here's a directory at Paris with the trades after the names of the people.
I want you to take it to wherever you're taking it.
Where is that, by the way?
Oh, well, I'll find a hotel quite near here, I'm sure.
Oh, yes, plenty, plenty.
Very reasonable, too.
Well, I want you to take this directory back there.
There's no need to work in this discomfort.
Take it back and mark off all the hardware sellers with their addresses.
Stick at it, Mr. Bycroft, and let me have the results by Monday at 12.
Hardly managerial work, I admit, but we're all pitching in at whatever needs doing for the time being.
And then I found a cheap hotel and settled down to do as he does, Mr. Holmes.
With pretty mixed feelings, I don't know.
Well, yes, indeed.
On the one hand, I was definitely engaged, and I had a hundred pounds in my pocket.
But on the other hand...
Well, the look of those officers.