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I walked along the sea for about an hour until I began to reel hungry.It was seven.By that time, I was not far from a favourite restaurant of mine.I often went there to eat two or three times a week.I knew the owner well.
I went into the restaurant.It was already crowded, and I ordered my meal.While I was waiting, I looked 1 to see if I knew anyone in the restaurant.Then I saw a man sitting at a corner table near the door keeping looking in my direction as if he knew me.I certainly didn't know him, for I never forgot a 2 .The man had a newspaper 3 in front of him.But I could see that he was keeping an 4 on me.When the waiter brought my soup, the man was 5 puzzled by the familiar way that the waiter and I called each other.He became even more puzzled as 6 went on.He could see that I was well 7 in the restaurant.At last he got up and went into the kitchen.After a few minutes he came out again, 8 for his meal and left.
When I had finished, I called the owner of the restaurant over and asked him 9 the man had wanted.The owner told me he was a detective.“Really?”I was 10 “He was certainly 11 in me, but why?”I asked.“He followed you here because he thought you were a man he was looking 12 ,”the owner said.“When he came into the kitchen, he showed me a 13 of the man he wanted.He certainly looked like you! Of course, since we 14 you here, I told him that he had made a mistake.”It was 15 I came to a restaurant where I was known, or I might have been arrested!
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