Other clients would have to wait until
later in the day. A memorandum pad, bearing a message in Sylvester's
precise penmanship attracted his wandering attention and he picked
it up.
"Mr. Kent:" he read. "Colonel McIntyre called just after I talked
with you on the 'phone; he waited in your office for half an hour,
then left, stating he would come back. Miss Barbara McIntyre called
immediately afterwards, but would not wait more than five minutes.
Mr. Clymer came as she was going out and left a note on your desk.
I will return soon.
"SYLVESTER."
Kent laid down the pad and picked up a twisted three-cornered note
bearing his name in pencil. Unfolding it, he scanned the hurriedly
written lines:
"Dear Kent - McIntyre telephoned there were new developments in the
Turnbull affair. Will be back later."Yours -
"B. A. CLYMER."
Kent judged from the use of his initials that Clymer was stirred
out of his ordinary calm, nothing else explained his failure to
sign his full name, and he wondered what confidences McIntyre had
made to the bank president.
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