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A SECOND DATE WITH JOHN
DIEDERMAYER
“Ding dong. Briefly, with a careless wave towards the couple, the comtesse presented them
as Monsieur and Madame Valade. You, sir,” he added, turning to Brendon, “had better take my card round to the
police station in Werner Street and ask that Detective Dorling be sent round here
at once on urgent business. Turning, she heaved at the bottom door and slammed it in his face just
as he came leaping forward to grab her. I have the right also to throw you
out. "What is she saying to me?"
Ah Cum shrugged. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. "
As Ben spoke, they drew near the opposing parties. “I beg your pardon,” he said, “but you appear to be a fellow countrywoman of
mine, and in some distress. Her eyes were dilated—
fixed in a horrified stare at the parting in the curtains which hung before the
window.
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