CHERRY PICKING
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read the news idly, and was just on the point of tossing the paper aside when this advertisement caught his eye:
Lost. Four children, aged thirteen, twelve, ten and five. Somewhere around the region of Middlesex and Townsend. $5000 reward for information.
James Henry Cordyce
"Whew!" whistled the young man. "James Henry Cordyce!"
He sat in perfect silence for a long time, thinking. Then he went to bed. But long after he had gone upstairs he whistled again, and could have been heard to say—if anyone had been awake to hear it—"James Henry Cordyce! Of all people!"
