So, as every virtuous young lady should do, I sought the advice of an older, wiser, masculine head, consulting a man of the world: Dr. Leslie Ragostin, Scientific Perditorian -- my employer.
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I jest. Dr. Ragostin was fictitious, my invention so that I should have the opportunity to search for missing things and persons. All the next day, at work as Miss Meshle, the great man's secretary, I puzzled over Mrs. Tupper's problem: how to deal with the sender of her mysteriously threatening letter?
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As was my custom, I first sat at my desk and composed a list of questions:
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Why "carrier pigeon"? Because she was going home? Are a carrier pigeon and a homing pigeon the same? To call a person a pigeon is a very odd term of insult. The Americans say "stool pigeon" of an informer. Is, call him X, an American?
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"Bird-brained" rather than "harebrained" also an Americanism?
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