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`` He has n't ; but I have . The telephone number which figures in the case is the number of a pay station in an all-night drug store in Washington . Westerfeltner freely gave me the number . Both the proprietor of this drug store and his clerk remember that night before last , shortly before eight o'clock , a rather small , slight woman wearing a black street costume with a dark veil over her face came into the place and said she was expecting a telephone call for Mrs. Williams . Within two or three minutes the bell rang and the clerk answered and somebody asked for Mrs. Williams . The woman entered the booth , came out almost immediately , and went away . All that the drugstore man and his clerk remember about her is that she was a young woman , plainly dressed but well-groomed .