Hale's
escritoire, and, with an abrupt "excuse me," helped himself to pen,
ink and paper.
"There!" he said, after five minutes' work. "That'll do for a
starter. You see," he added, handing the product of his toil to
Mrs. Hale, "this street happens to be the regular cross-town route
for the milk that comes over by one of the minor ferries. If you
heard a number of wagons passing in the early morning they were the
milk-vans. Hence this."
Mrs. Hale read:
"MILK-DRIVERS, ATTENTION--Delaware Central
mid-town route. Who talked to man outside
hotel early morning of August 7? Twenty
dollars to right man. Apply personally to
Jones, Ad-Visor, Astor Court Temple, New York."
"For the coming issue of the Milk-Dealers' Journal," explained its
author. "Now, Mr. Kirby, I want you to find out for me--Mrs. Hale
can help you, since she has known the hotel people for years--the
names of all those who gave up rooms on this floor, or the floors
above or below, yesterday morning, and ask whether they are known to
the hotel people.
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