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` I have been detained in America by illness , ' wrote Mark in his rapid , sprawling , inexcusable hand , ` and am only just back . I wonder whether you have come to any decision about the matter which we discussed when you called here . I see you took my advice and went to Onions Winter . If you could drop in to-morrow at noon or a little after , I have something to show you which ought to interest you . ' And then there was a postscript : ` My congratulations on your extraordinary success go without saying . ' After Henry had deciphered this invitation , he gave a glance at the page as a whole , which had the air of having been penned by Planchette in a state of violent hysteria , and he said to himself : ` It 's exactly like Snyder , that is . He 's a clever chap .