sentences:  Wolfe, affected by the Depression, decides to take the job, although it is unappealing to him.Archie locates Anna Fiore, a girl who listened in on a phone call Carlo received at his boarding-house shortly before his disappearance.Wolfe learns from her that Carlo had clipped a story from a copy of "The New York Times" about the sudden death (apparently by stroke) of Peter Oliver Barstow, president of Holland College.