"Let me see," he mused. "Thursday, January seventh, was the date
upon which Washington Serral was murdered, according to Doctor
MacDonald. Any man who will maintain a record of the days in
such a difficult code as this must not only be extremely
methodical, but is certain to have much to put upon that record
worth the trouble. Here may lay the secret of the entire case."
At the end of the hour he had allowed himself, there was no more
proximity to solution than at the inception of his effort. It
was almost half-past eleven, and he knew that it was time to go
to Warren's apartment. He sent a messenger with the book,
carefully wrapped up, to his rooms at the club on Forty-fourth
Street. It was too interesting a document to risk taking up to
that apartment again, after Helene's exertions in obtaining it.
The Somerset was not dissimilar from the hundreds of highly
embellished dwellings of the sort which abound in the region of
the Park, causing out-of-town visitors to marvel justly at the
source of the vast sums of money with which to pay the enormous
rentals of them all.
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