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For neither recently nor at any other time was he conscious of having issued a special annotated edition of this work . For a minute or two he pondered , standing on the pavement . Then , deciding to inquire further into this thing , he stooped his head and shoulders and passed under the low lintel into the little dark shop . Henry , having left the Assembly , sent off his message to his newspaper -LRB- it was entirely about the disappearance of Dr. Svensen -RRB- , glanced into his pigeon-hole on his way out , and found there , among various superfluous documents , a note addressed to him by the ex-cardinal Franchi , suggesting that , if he should not find himself better employed , he should give the writer his company at dinner at eight o'clock that evening , at his villa at Monet , two miles up the lake . He would find a small electric launch waiting for him at seven-thirty at the Eaux-Vives jetty , in which would be Dr. Franchi 's niece , who had been attending the Assembly that afternoon . `` Excellent , '' thought Henry . `` I will go . ''