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' and there in the opening was something that was so unmistakably Marta's woolly lamb that Grant laughed aloud before he could stop himself.
The young man looked abashed, smiled nervously, propped the spectacles on his nose with a long thin fore-finger, cleared his throat, and said:
'Mr Grant? My name is Carradine. Brent Carradine. I hope I haven't disturbed you when you were resting.'
'No, no. Come in, Mr Carradine. I am delighted' to see you.'
'Marta - Miss Hallard, that is - sent me. She said I could be of some help 'to you.'
'Did she say how? Do sit down. You'll find a chair over there behind the door. Bring it over.'
He was a tall boy, hatless, with soft fair curls crowning a high forehead and a much too big tweed coat hanging unfastened round him in negligent folds, American-wise. Indeed, it was-obvious that he was in fact American. He brought over the chair, planted himself on it with the coat spread' round him like some royal robe, and looked at Grant with kind brown eyes whose luminous charm not 'even the horn-rims could dim.
'Marta - Miss Hallard, that is - said that you wanted something looked up.'
'And are you a looker-upper?'
'I'm doing research, here in London. Historical research, I mean. And she said something about your wanting some-thing in that line. She knows I work at the B.M. most mornings. I'd be very pleased, M
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