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"It's an "I dropped it out of theI--"

"You threw it out of theI saw you"

It was Rudolph

"You--" He snarled, and stood witheyes fixed on her bare neck

"Rudolph!"

"Get into the house," he said roughly "You're half-naked"

"Give ht What's left of it When we get in"

He followed her into the hail, but when she turned there and held out

her hand, he only snarled again

"We'll talk up-stairs"

"I can't take you up The landlady don't allow it"

"She don't, eh? You had that Spencer skunk up there"

His face frightened her, and she lied vehemently

"That's not so, and you know it, Rudolph Klein He came inside, just

like this, and we stood and talked Then he went away He wasn't inside