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`` At any rate it will do no harm to investigate , '' remarked the cashier as he closed the heavy door of the vault . `` I shall turn the evidence over to the insurance company in New York . '' That evening at sundown when train Number 29 pulled out from the station at Dobbinsville and sped eastward , it carried in its mailcoach a letter of much significance addressed to the president of a large insurance company in New York City . The following week one day when the west-bound noon train stopped at Dobbinsville , a well-dressed stranger stepped from the platform of the coach and made inquiry as to the location of a hotel . A lanky-looking lad who leaned against a pole directed the stranger to the Dobbinsville Inn , across the street . A person of this man 's evident rank and importance was not a familiar sight in the streets of Dobbinsville . His mysterious presence set a peaceful town all agog .