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asked Gard -- he was planning rapidly . The detective nodded toward the telephone . `` Well , '' growled his employer , `` could your man suggest to Mahr that he had had wind of something in Cosmopolitan Telephone ? I 'll see that there 's a move to corroborate it by noon to-day , if Long gets in his tip early . And suggest , too , that I 'm sore because he bought the Heim Vandyke ; but that if he asked me to come and see it , I 'd go , and he might have a chance to pump me . I happen to know that Mahr is in the telephone pool up to his eyes , and he 'd do anything to get into quick communication with me . He is probably going to the club to-day , and I 'll not be there -- see ? ''