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"Hello Leslie! Are you all right? I'm sorry to say I am not. I'm up
against a proposition I don't know how to handle. Why just this: remember
your father told me in your presence that if in the course of my
investigations I reached his office, I was to wait until he got back? Yes.
I thought you'd remember. You know the order of the court gave me access
to the records, but the officials whose books I have gone over haven't
been pleased about it, although reflection would have told them if it
hadn't been I, it would have been some other man. But the point is this:
I'm almost at the finish and I haven't found what obviously exists
somewhere. I'm now up to the last office, which is your father's. The
shortage either has to be there, or in other departments outside those I
was delegated to search; so that further pursuit will be necessary. Two or
three times officials have suggested to me that I go over your father's
records first, as an evidence that there was no favouritism; now I have
reached them, and this proposition: if I go ahead in his, as I have in
other offices, I disobey his express order.
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