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Number Seventeen
by Louis Tracy, 1915
CHAPTER I
THE OUTCOME OF ARTISTIC CURIOSITY
"Taxi, sir? Yes, sir. No. 4 will be yours."
A red-faced, loud-breathing commissionaire, engaged in the lucrative
task of pocketing sixpences as quickly as he could summon cabs,
vanished in a swirl of macintoshes and umbrellas.
People who had arrived at the theater in fine weather were emerging
into a drizzle of rain. "All London," as the phrase goes, was flocking