
You are Dyson, a London idler with unfinished manuscripts and a taste for the marvelous, until Charles Phillipps turns years of friendly argument into evidence: a worn gold coin found on the pavement, and a spectacled young man in the fog begging you not to let three strangers see it. The trio who catch you up, smiling Davies, twitching Richmond, a woman called Helen claiming him as her brother, tell too neat a story. Then a cry rises from an alley, and a cab opens on a leaking parcel.
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