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He did not permit inquiry into his motive or anything else , in fact , for he got quickly into the car and it started off instantly , leaving Mr. Wesley Thompson , a little bewildered by the rapidity of these proceedings , staring at the card , which read : John P. Henderson , Inc. . Van Ness at Potter Groya Motors A westbound street car bore down on the corner . Thompson gave over reflecting upon this latest turn of affairs , gathered up his things , boarded the car , and was set off a few minutes later near the Globe Rooms . At precisely 8 p.m. he arrived at the address Sophie had given him and found it to be an apartment house covering half a block , an enormous structure clinging upon the slope which dips from Nob Hill down to the heart of the city . An elevator shot him silently aloft to the fifth floor . As silently the elevator man indicated the location of Apartment 509 . The whole place seemed pitched to that subdued note , as if it were a sanctuary from the clash and clamor without its walls .