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The Broken Penny 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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The board in the hall said CENT~I. LIAXSON OR-<br >C.ANIZATION, 3RD FLOOR. Charles Garden took the self-<br >service lift up, and stepped out into a waiti@ room with<br >C6zanne and Matisse reproductions on the walls. Be-<br >hind a desk sat a rather dowdy girl wearing large horn-<br >rimmed spectacles reading a book. She looked up from<br >it reluctantly and said, "Yes?"<br > "My name s Garden. An appointment with Mr. Lat-<br >tefley."<br > The girl picked up a telephone. "A Mr. Garden. Says<br >he has an appointment with G. L. Section Three." She<br >listened, then said without smiling, "Won t keep you a<br >moment. Take a seat, please."<br > Garden leaned ove~ the._desk. "The name s Garden,<br >not a Mr. Garden. And I have ~t an appointment,<br >there s no doubt about it."<br > She said without much interest, "We get all sorts here,<br >sometimes one name and then another. And your name,<br >I mean Garden, well." She did not think much of Gar-<br >den as a name, that was clear.<br > "What sort of liaison goes on here? I thought that<br >word went out with the war."<br > "We re hush-hush," she said, and added generously,<br >"Especially Section Three."<br > "What s Section Three?"<br > She stared at him through the big horn rims.<br ><br >
The Broken Penny 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书