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Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...
...Story. In 1979 a chap with a scar was traveling to England, there to sell to the highest bidder priceless mineral deposits of his native West Irania. In the same year, another chap, without a scar, was traveling to England, there to see the world. Of Chap I the name was whatever happened to be convenient; of Chap II the name was Richard Mallard?he having no reason to conceal his identity...
...story of these two gentlemen exists solely by reason of the excessive sleuthly caution of Sleuth Evans of the Truth and Justice Private Enquiry Co., New York. Having smartly overheard the man with the scar mention to the steamship agent his cabin number, he smartly withdrew, lest he appear to be what he was, a sleuth. By his very caution he missed the fact that cabin number 136 was being surrendered, not engaged...
Chap I, with the scar, took a later steamer, and was marooned for some weeks on the coast of Labrador. Chap II, without a scar, fell heir to the canceled cabin and arrived in England to receive, as inmate of cabin 136, the attentions of Sleuths A, B, C and D, respectively employed by a newspaper magnate, an industrialist, and Her Honor, the Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant...
...last the chap with the scar descended from his Labrador crag, sold the concession to the British government?and all that remained was for the female administration to hush up the scandal...