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At last she came to one designated as being a clerk in the office of the Board of Public Construction , and his residence was 17 , Rupert Square , Brixton . She put this address down in her notebook and handed back the volume to the waiting watchman , as the editor came out with the cheque in his hand . The shrewd and energetic dealer in coins , whose little office stands at the exit from Charing Cross Station , proved quite willing to oblige the editor of the _ Evening Graphite _ with fifty sovereigns in exchange for the bit of paper , and the editor , handing to Miss Jennie the envelope containing the gold , saw her drive off for Brixton , while he turned , not to resume his game of dominoes at the café , but to his office , to write the leader which would express in good set terms the horror he felt at the action of the Board of Public Construction . It was a little past seven o'clock when Miss Baxter 's hansom drove up to the two-storeyed house in Rupert Square numbered 17 . She knocked at the door , and it was speedily opened by a man with some trace of anxiety on his clouded face , who proved to be Hazel himself , the clerk at the Board of Public Construction . `` You are Mr. Hazel ? '' she ventured , on entering .