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belongings from the premises.

Later in the morning Jim rang Frank from a call box to tell him he would no longer be dealing with the Owens account, but Mr. Owens himself answered the phone. When Jim told him he had been sacked, he suggested Jim call at the nearly completed night club at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and he would try and help Jim to get a new job.

The night club was due to open in another two weeks time and Jim was surprised at the luxury of its appointments. It apparently was going to be a very expensive establisnment. Ushered into Mr. Owens office, Jim had the shock of his life, for seated behind the massive desk was the smiling figure of Elaine.

He was dumbfounded and when he recovered his speech, blurted out, "What on earth are you doing here, I never expected to see you again, although I was hoping I should."

With a smile she said, "Sit down and calm down, Jim. I think you are due for a few shocks. I have a perfect right to be here."

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"Well, what about Mr. Owens?" queried Jim. "A11 this is mine," Elaine said, "I am Peter Owens. She grinned broadly as Jim gasped with astonishment. He was completely bewildered and it was some seconds before he recovered his wits and stammered, "I don't get it. Who are you? Elaine Barnett or Peter Owens? You can't mean they are the same person, it is im- possible!"

"Well listen Jim and I will tell you a little story which is perfectly true, I thought you would have tumbled to things back at the cottage, but you did not, so when I returned to London I avoided meet- ing you for as long as possible and did all my bus- iness through Frank. When we did finally meet I ex-

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