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....the clerk  seeing the identity card waved him towards another man quite old sitting  bear the window,  ,  clad in bew brown suit hus white hair stood out, he held an old newspaper,, next to him was kept an old fashioned  hat,  he neared him and asked  if he was mr revers,  the old man  turning his eyes away from his newspaper looked at him and asked who was he, he introduced himself,  traver sharp from Los angels times,  he wanted him to cooperate  on king kris old case file he was researching on