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I said, “Yes.”

He said, “Do you want to know where he is?”

I said, “I don't care particularly, but if you know, where is he?”

“He's in San Francisco and he's living under a blind.”

I said, “What do you mean?”

“Well,” he said, “only a month ago I was walking up a street and who should I see walking out of one of the lodging houses but Rathbone. So I followed him a spell. He went down towards the Embarcadero. I had to leave, but I noted the house he came from. If the police ever want to know where he is, I've got it in me pocket here.”

I said, “Did you follow it up any further?”

“Nobody seems to know he's there. Nobody's heard the name. I sent a friend of mine to that house to ring the bell and ask the landlady for Mr. Rathbone. She said no such person lived there. But I never could forget Mervyn Rathbone and I know him when I see him. He's a very unusual looking man.”

I said, “Did he look sick?”

“No, he looked the way he's always looked.





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