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One partner may consult another James	A
Here is a matter you must help me with	B
It's coming to a head	C
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Well to be plain	D
And to begin at the beginning first	E
I knew a woman up on Sixty third	F
Have known her since I got her a divorce	G
Married divorced before last night we quarreled	H
I must do something hear me and advise	I
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She is a woman notable for eyes	I
Bright for their oblong lights in them they seem	J
Like crockery vases rookwood where the light	K
Shows spectrally almost in squares and circles	L
Her skin is fair nose hooked of amorous flesh	M
A feaster and a liver thinks and plans	N
Of money how to get it And this husband	O
Whom she divorced last summer went away	P
And left her to get on as best she could	Q
All legal matters settled we went driving	R
This story can be skipped	S
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Last night we dined	T
Afterward went to her apartment First	E
She told me at the dinner that her niece	U
Named Elenor Murray died some days ago	V
I sensed what she was after here's the point	W
She followed up the theme when we returned	X
To her apartment where we quarreled You see	Y
I would not do her bidding left her mad	Z
In silent wrath after some bitter words	A2
I managed her divorce as I have said	C
Then I stepped in as lover months had passed	B2
When Elenor Murray came here to New York	C2
I met her at the apartment of the aunt	D2
Whose name is Margery Camp Before she said	C
Her niece was here was happy and in love	E2
But sorrowful for leaving just the talk	F2
That has no meaning till you see the subject	G2
Or afterwards perhaps it passes in	H2
One ear and out the other Then at last	B2
One afternoon I met this Elenor Murray	Y
When I go up to call on Margery Camp	I2
The staging of the matter is like this	J2
The niece looks fagged is sitting on the couch	K2
Has loosed her collar for her throat to feel	L2
The air about it for the day is hot	M2
And Margery Camp goes out brings in a pitcher	N2
Of absinthe cocktails so we drink I sit	O2
Begin to study what is done and look	P2
This Elenor Murray over get the thought	Q2
That somehow Margery Camp has taken Elenor	N2
In her control for something has begun	R2
To use her manage her is coiling her	N2
With dominant will or cunning Then I look	P2
See Margery Camp observing Elenor Murray	N2
Who drinks the absinthe and in Margery's eyes	I
I see these parallelograms of light	K
Just like a vase of crockery there she stands	S2
Her face like ivory and laughs and shows	T2
Her marvelous teeth smooths with her shapely hands	S2
The skirt upon her hips Somehow I feel	L2
She is a soul who watches passion work	U2
Then Elenor Murray rouses gets her spirits	V2
Out of the absinthe rises and exclaims	A
I'm better now and Margery Camp speaks up	W2
Poor child in intonation like a doll	X2
That speaks from reeds of steel no sympathy	N2
Or meaning in the words The interview	Y2
Seems spooky to me cold and sinister	N2
We drink again and then we drink again	Z2
And what with her fatigue and lowered spirits	V2
This Elenor Murray drifts in talk and mood	A3
With so much drink At last this Margery Camp	I2
Says suddenly You'll have to help my niece	U
There is a matter you must manage for her	N2
We've talked it over in a day or two	Y2
Before she goes away we'll come to you	Y2
I took them out to dinner after dinner	N2
Drove Margery Camp to her apartment then	Z2
Went down with Elenor Murray to her place	B3
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Then in a day or two one afternoon	C3
Margery Camp and Elenor Murray came	D3
Here to my office with a bundle which	E3
This Margery Camp was carrying rather large	F3
And Margery Camp was bright and keen as winter	N2
But Elenor Murray seemed a little dull	G3
Abstracted as of drink or thought perhaps	H3
After the greeting and preliminaries	I3
Margery said to Elenor Better tell	J3
What we have come for get it done and go	V
Then Elenor Murray said Here are some letters	K3
I've tied them in this package and I wish	L3
To put them in a safety box give you	Y2
One key and keep the other leave with you	Y2
A sealed instruction which in case I die	M3
While over seas you may break open read	C
And follow if you will She handed me	N2
A writing signed by her which merely read	C
What I have told you here it is you see	N2
When legal proof is furnished I am dead	C
Break open the sealed letter which will give	N3
Instruction for you So I took the trust	O3
Went with these women to a vault and placed	P3
The letters in the box gave her a key	N2
Kept one myself They left At dinner time	Q3
I joined them saw more evidence of the will	R3
Of Margery Camp controlling Elenor's	N2
Which seemed in part an older woman's power	N2
Against a younger woman's and in part	S3
Something less innocent We ate and drank	T3
I took them to their places as before	N2
And didn't see this Elenor again	Z2
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But now last night when I see Margery	N2
She says at once My niece is dead goes on	U3
To say no other than herself has care	N2
Or interest in her was estranged from father	N2
And mother too herself the closest heart	S3
In all the world and therefore she must look	P2
After the memory of the niece and adds	N2
She came to you through me I picked you out	V3
To do this business So she went along	W3
With this and that advancing and retreating	R
To catch me bind me Well I saw her game	D3
Sat non committal sipping wine but keeping	R
The wits she hoped I'd lose as I could see	N2
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After the dinner we went to her place	N2
And there she said these letters might contain	D
Something to smudge the memory of her niece	N2
She wished she had insisted on the plan	X3
Of having one of the keys the sealed instruction	R2
Made out and left with her being her aunt	D2
The closest heart in the world to Elenor Murray	N2
That would have been the right way But she said	C
Her niece was willful and secretive too	Y2
Not over wise but now that she was dead	C
It was her duty to reform the plan	X3
Do what was best and take control herself	Y3
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So working to the point by devious ways	N2
She said at last You must give me the key	N2
The sealed instruction I'll go to the box	N2
And get the letters do with them as Elenor	N2
Directed in the letter for I think	Z3
Cannot believe it different that my niece	N2
Has left these letters with me so directs	N2
In that sealed letter Then if that be true	N2
Why give the key to me the letter no	V
This is a trust a lawyer would betray	N2
A sacred trust to do what you request	A4
I saw her growing angry Then I added	B4
I have no proof your niece is dead My word	F
Is good enough she answered we are friends	N2
You are my lover as I thought my word	F
Should be sufficient And she kept at me	N2
Until I said I can't give you the key	N2
And if I did they would not let you in	H2
You are not registered as a deputy	N2
To use the key She did not understand	C4
Did not believe me but she tacked about	V3
And said You can do this take me along	W3
When you go to the vault and open the box	N2
And break the letter open which she gave	D4
I only answered If I find your niece	N2
Has given these letters to you you shall have	E4
The letters but I think the letters go	V
Back to the writer and if that's the case	N2
I'll send them to the writer	N2
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Here at last	B2
She lost control took off her mask and stormed	F4
We'll see about it You will scarcely care	N2
To have the matter aired in court I'll see	N2
A lawyer bring a suit and try it out	V3
And see if I the aunt am not entitled	H
To have my niece's letters and effects	N2
Whatever's in the package I am tired	F
And cannot see you longer Take five days	N2
To think the matter over If you come	G4
And do what I request no suit but if	H4
You still refuse the courts can settle it	O2
And so I left her	N2
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In a day or two	N2
I read of Elenor Murray's death It seems	N2
The coroner investigates her death	I4
She died mysteriously Well then I break	J4
The sealed instruction look I am to send	K4
The package to Jane Fisher in Chicago	V
We know of course Jane Fisher did not write	K
The letters that the letters are a man's	N2
What is the inference Why that Elenor Murray	N2
Pretended to comply obey her aunt	D2
Yet slipped between her fingers did not wish	L3
The aunt or me to know who wrote the letters	N2
Feigned full submission frankness with the aunt	D2
Yet hid her secret hid it from the aunt	D2
Beyond her finding out if I observe	L4
The trust imposed keep hands of Margery Camp	I2
From getting at the letters	N2
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Now two things	N2
Suppose the writer of the letters killed	M4
This Elenor Murray is somehow involved	N4
In Elenor Murray's death If that's the case	N2
Should not these letters reach the coroner	N2
To help enforce the law is higher trust	O3
Than doing what a client has commanded	B4
And secondly if Margery Camp should sue	N2
My wife will learn the secret bring divorce	N2
Three days remain before the woman's threat	O4
Is ripe to execute Think over this	N2
We'll talk again I really need advice	N2
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So Hunter told the coroner Then resumed	P4
The matter was a simple thing I said	C
To telegraph the coroner You are right	K
Those letters give a clue perhaps your trust	O3
Is first to see the law enforced And yet	O4
I saw he was confused and drinking too	N2
For fear his wife would learn of Margery Camp	I2
I added for that matter open the box	N2
Take out the letters find who wrote them send	K4
A telegram to the coroner giving the name	D3
Of the writer of the letters Well he nodded	B4
Seemed to consent to anything I said	C
And Hunter left me leaving me in doubt	V3
What he would do And what is next Next day	N2
He's in the hospital and has pneumonia	Q4
I take a cab to see him but I find	T
He is too sick to see is out of mind	T
In three days he is dead His wife comes in	H2
And tells me worry killed him knows the truth	R4
About this Margery Camp oh so she said	C
Had sent a lawyer to her husband asking	R
For certain letters of an Elenor Murray	N2
And that her husband stood between the fire	N2
Of some exposure by this Margery Camp	I2
Or suffering these letters to be used	S4
By Margery Camp against the writer for	N2
A bit of money This was Mrs Hunter's	N2
Interpretation Well the fact is clear	N2
That Hunter feared this Margery Camp was scared	T4
About his wife who in some way had learned	X
just at this time of Margery Camp I think	Z3
Was called up written to Between it all	U4
Poor Hunter's worry far too fast a life	V4
He broke and died And now you know it all	U4
I've learned no client enters at your door	N2
And nothing casual happens in the day	N2
That may not change your life or bring you death	I4
And Hunter in a liaison with Margery	N2
Is brought within the scope of Elenor's	N2
Life and takes his mortal hurt and dies	N2
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So much for riffles in New York We turn	W4
Back to LeRoy and see the riffles there	N2
See all of them together Loveridge Chase	N2
Receives a letter from a New York friend	K4
A secret service man who trails and spies	N2
On Henry Baker knows about the letters	N2
And writes to Loveridge Chase and says to him	X4
That Elenor Murray dying near LeRoy	N2
Left letters in New York I trailed the aunt	D2
Of Elenor Murray Margery Camp Also	N2
A lawyer Henry Baker who controls	N2
A box with letters left by Elenor Murray	N2
So for the story Why not join with me	N2
And get these letters There is money in it	O2
Perhaps who knows I work for Mrs Hunter	N2
She wants the letters placed where they belong	W3
And wants the man who killed this Elenor Murray	N2
Punished as he should be Go see the coroner	N2
And get the work of bringing back the letters	N2
And Chase came to the coroner and spoke	Y4