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`` Well , it would have proved that people are best away from the seaside . Not that any further proof is necessary . Now , good-bye , my dear ; I must get back to my work . '' * * * * * That afternoon Julius Bradshaw went on a business mission to Cornhill , and was detained in the city till past five o'clock . It was then too late to return to the office , as six was the closing hour ; so he decided on the Twopenny Tube to Lancaster Gate , the nearest point to home . There was a great shouting of evening papers round the opening into the bowels of the earth at the corner of the Bank , and Julius 's attention was caught by an unearthly boy with a strange accent . '' ` Mail and Echo , ' third edition , all the latest news for a ` apeny .