"No. As you say, no fellow can be on the job all the time. But our
problem is not to catch Livius, but to find out what it is he's been
after for the last three months."
"Three months? You're assuming that it was he who applied for work
in the library."
"Certainly. And when he failed at that he set about a very
carefully developed scheme to get at Colonel Graeme's books anyway.
By inquiries he found out the old gentleman's fad and proceeded to
get in training for it. You don't know, perhaps, that I have a
corps of assistants who clip, catalogue and file all unusual
advertisements. Here is one which they turned up for me on my order
to send me any queer educational advertisements: 'Wanted--Daily
lessons in Latin speech from competent Spanish scholar. Write, Box
347, Banner office.' That is from the New York Banner of April
third, shortly after the strange caller's second abortive attempt to
get into the Graeme library."
"I suppose our Livius figured out that Colonel Graeme's theory of
accent was about what a Spaniard would have.
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