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`` Go ahead , '' said the President . That night Mr. Wintermuth enjoyed the first peaceful rest for almost three months . Smith , on the contrary , perhaps through his anxiety to put his Boston agency house in order , remained sleepless far into the small , still hours . Nevertheless he departed next day for Boston on the three o'clock express , arriving in Boston at eight , although he might as well have taken a later train , for it was certain that neither Sternberg , Bloom , nor McCoy would be apt to remain in their offices until that hour of night . Doubtless it was for this reason that he left the train at the Huntington Avenue station and turned west toward Deerfield Street . Fifteen minutes later he was waiting in the reception hall of an apartment house , the construction of which he had once , in the Guardian office at New York , quite minutely described for the edification of a certain young lady visitor . In due course of time he was conveyed to the proper floor , and a moment later found himself shaking hands with the identical young lady .