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The expense will be trifling . Collect it from the cashier in the morning , and tell him to charge it to my account . '' And Cappy hung up . At once Mr. Skinner took up the thread of the interrupted conference , and it was not until three o'clock that Bill Peck left his house and proceeded downtown to locate Cappy Rick 's blue vase . He proceeded to the block in Sutter Street between Stockton and Powell Streets , and although he walked patiently up one side of the street and down the other , not a single vase of any description showed in any shop window , nor could he find a single shop where such a vase as Cappy had described might , perchance , be displayed for sale . `` I think the old boy has erred in the co-ordinates of the target , '' Bill Peck concluded , `` or else I misunderstood him . I 'll telephone his house and ask him to repeat them . ''