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`` Is there any way in which I can be of service to you ? '' I thought a smile played over his face at the thought that perhaps she might have come to ask him to work for three clients instead of two . At any rate , the girl was very much excited and very much in earnest , as she opened her handbag and drew from it a letter which she handed to Garrick . `` I received that letter , '' she explained , speaking rapidly , `` in the noon mail to-day . I do n't know what to make of it . It worries me to get such a thing . What do you suppose it was sent to me for ?