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WARNER & WIFE

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Warner & Wife

By Rex Stout

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WARNER & WIFE

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Warner & Wife
by Rex Stout

Lori Warner, after a leisurely inspection of herself in the pier mirror next the window, buttoned
her well- fitting blue jacket closely about her, put on her hat, and caught up a bulging portfolio of
brown leather that was lying on the dressing table. Then she turned to call to her husband in the
adjoining room:

"Timmie!"

When she had waited at least half a second she called again, this time with a shade of impatience
in her voice: "Timmie!"

The door opened and a man appeared on the threshold. Picture him a scant three inches over five
feet in height, weighing perhaps a hundred and fifteen or twenty pounds; in short, a midget. A
thin forelock of reddish hair straggled over his left eyebrow; his mustache, also thin and red,
pointed straight down in a valiant but abortive attempt to reach his full lips; his ears, of generous
size, had an odd appearance of being cocked like those of an expectant horse.

The small and deep-set eyes, filled as they were with timidity and self-deprecation amounting
almost to docility, seemed nevertheless to possess a twinkle of intelligence. This was Timothy D.
Warner.

"Good morning, my dear!" said he, stopping three paces from the threshold like a well- trained
servant.

"Where were you at breakfast?" returned his wife, scorning the convention of salutation.

Mr. Warner blinked once, then said pleasantly:

"I haven't been."