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The Tracer of Lost Persons
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Title: The Tracer of Lost Persons
Author: Robert W. Chambers
Release Date: August 15, 2004 [EBook #13180]
Language: English
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THE TRACER OF LOST PERSONS
BY R. W. CHAMBERS
TO MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. HALL
1906
For the harmony of the world, like that of a harp, is made up of discords.
--HERACLITUS.
CHAPTER I
He was thirty-three, agreeable to look at, equipped with as much culture and intelligence as is tolerated east of Fifth Avenue and west of Madison. He had a couple of elaborate rooms at the Lenox Club, a larger income than seemed to be good for him, and no profession. It follows that he was a pessimist before breakfast. Besides, it's a bad thing for a man at thirty-three to come to the conclusion that he has seen all the most attractive girls in the world and that they have been vastly overrated. So, when a club servant with gilt buttons on his coat tails knocked at the door, the invitation to enter was not v