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He hoped he was ; it might simplify matters tremendously . On a certain summer morning a paragraph appeared in at least three daily papers to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Justus Propbridge had gone down to Gulf Stream City , on the Maryland coast ; they would be at the Churchill-Fontenay there for a week or ten days . It was at his breakfast that Marr read this information . At noon , having in the meantime done a considerable amount of telephoning , he was on his way to the seaside too . Mentally he was shaking hands with himself in a warmly congratulatory way . Gulf Stream City was a place seemingly designed , both by Nature and by man , for the serving of his purposes . Residing there were persons of his own kidney and persuasion , on whom he might count for at least one detail of invaluable coöperation .