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`` Half an hour ago I received this telegram , '' he said , pulling one out of his pocket and handing it to me . `` As I know you to be an intimate friend of Sir Roland 's , you may like to read it before I say anything to Dick . '' I unfolded the telegram . It had been handed in at Newbury at five o'clock , and ran : `` My daughter suddenly taken seriously ill . Dick must return at once . My butler will await him under the clock on Paddington departure platform at 7:15 , and bring him down here . Please see that Dick is under clock at 7:15 this evening without fail .