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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER XV
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Polite and respectful calls on Lady Feenix, Lady Maud Parry, and Mrs.Armstrong--Vivie's known associates--elicted no information, till on leaving the last-named lady's house in Kensington Square the detective heard Colonel Armstrong come in from the garden and call out "Ho-no-ria." "'-- ria," he said to himself, "'-ria kept the keys, and now--' Honoria.

What was her name before she married Colonel Armstrong ?--why--" He soon found out--"Fraser." "Wasn't there once a firm, _Fraser and Warren_, which set up to be some new dodge for establishing women in a city career ?--Accountancy?
Stockbroking?
Where did _Fraser and Warren_ have their office?
Fifth floor of Midland Insurance office in Chancery Lane.

What was that building now called?
No.

88-90." Done.
These two sentences run over a period of--what did I say?
Two months ?--in their deductions and guesses and consultation of out-of-date telephone directories.

But on one day in September, 1913, two plain-clothes policemen made their way up to the fifth floor of 88-90 Chancery Lane and found the outer door of Mr.
Michaelis's office locked and a notice board on it saying "Absent till Monday." Not deterred by this, they forced open the door--to the thrilling interest of a spectacled typewriteress, who had no business on that landing at all, but she usually made assignations there with the lift man.


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