OFFICE-TO-LET TRAP.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21021, 9 May 1930, Page 16

OFFICE-TO-LET TRAP.

adventuress of a new type. “d dangerous " office-to-let ” f«f|pr, to whlcll “any pien have already ofth* W £ n T en & br .°V« ht the notice tie Sunday Chronicle, A new type of adventuress is at work using as her medium the columns of leading nevemakp\ especially publications that K.v'sprf'-.daarruj “» ’>» “an only just back from + fc wa °ted a temporary office in no c*° “ e ®t i ls prospective clients. Me scanned the coiumns devoted to adcoii fT*2 ts °1 business premieee. and selected three that sounded suitable. One to let in West . End, thnf furnished,” and named a price tint seemed quite reasonable. When the man from the East rang up tne telephone number mentioned in the advertisement, he was answered by a pleasant-vomed woman, who suggested * ba * ehc Vi, ld c j l ] and see the officeTShe gave him the address—one of the most fashionable shopping streets in London—and he promised to call. When he reached the building he was met by a young woman, who took him to a small room in which were a desk, a typewriter, and a telephone. He asked if he could see the 1 office that was to let - The young woman took him to another room. when he entered he had. on « ir * ■ biggest shocks of his life. companion switched on the light, and amazement I saw an apartment that not by any stretch of the.imagmation could be described as having anything at all to ‘do with an office,” the man told the Sund.ay Chronicle. “ Every article m the place was of the kind one would expect only to find in a luxuryloving 'woman's boudoir. I was terribly confused, Jbut my • companion was coolness itself. Sbe suggested that I might like to "ball another t^jli. and asked that I should ring her up a " the same number as that given in the advertisement and make an appointment.'* A second business map was taken through the same procedure, and after seeing the first room he was taken back to the front “office,” and there introduced to another woman who said she would show him the other room.”