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The next morning, with a thumping headache he had come to expect, he tried calling Celia’s number again, but got the same lack of dial tone. He checked the number to the one he had written down, and found no mistake. Celia had gone offline.
Unable to contact her, he instead turned his attention to some of his new leads. He caught a local bus into Camelford and walked up a steep hill to a quiet public library, where he found out that Marjohns was a euphemism for The College of St. Mark and St. John, a possible explanation for the nickname of the man Reg remembered only as John. When he called their administrative office, however, he was told that in order for them to track down a former student, he’d need more information than a nickname of John and a prowess at darts.
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