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IThe Savoy Hotel welcomed Miss Anna Scheele with the empressement dueto an old and valued client—they inquired after the health of Mr. Mor-ganthal—and assured her that if her suite¹ was not to her liking² she hadonly to say so—for Anna Scheele represented DOLLARS.
Miss Scheele bathed, dressed, made a telephone call to a Kensingtonnumber and then went down in the lift. She passed through the revolvingdoors and asked for a taxi. It drew up and she got in and directed it toCartier’s in Bond Street.
As the taxi turned out of the Savoy approach into the Strand³ a little darkman who had been standing⁴ looking into a shop window suddenlyglanced at his watch and hailed a taxi that was conveniently cruising pastand which had been singularly blind to the hails of an agitated⁵ womanwith parcels a moment or two previously⁶.
The taxi followed along the Strand keeping the first taxi in sight. As theywere both held up by the lights in going round Trafalgar Square, the manin the second taxi looked out of the left-hand window and made a slightgesture with his hand. A private car, which had been standing in the sidestreet by the Admiralty Arch started its engine and swung into the streamof traffic behind the second taxi.
The traffic had started on again. As Anna Scheele’s taxi followed thestream of traffic going to the left into Pall⁷ Mall, the taxi containing thelittle dark man swung away to the right, continuing round TrafalgarSquare. The private car, a grey Standard, was now close behind AnnaScheele. It contained two passengers, a fair rather vacant-looking youngman at the wheel and a smartly dressed young woman beside him. TheStandard followed Anna Scheele’s taxi along Piccadilly and up BondStreet. Here for a moment it paused by the kerb, and the young womangot out.
She called brightly and conventionally.
“Thanks so much.”
The car went on. The young woman walked along glancing every nowand again into a window. A block held up the traffic. The young womanpassed both the Standard and Anna Scheele’s taxi. She arrived at Cartier’sand went inside.

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