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Everybody gulped black coffee and everybody puffed violently at cigars and cigarettes and then everybody bolted for the card tables

Jack Percival grasped Graydon's ar like an ape

"It worked, by George--worked like a charm Great Scott, what a money and time saver! I was a little worried about you, Bansemer, but I knew the others wouldn't catch on Great, wasn't it?"

"What the dickens does it ood Lord, man, nobody ever eats at these damned dinners They CAN'T eat They're sick of dinners That crowd out there takes tea and things at five or six o'clock They wouldn't anyat a dinner after the caviar and oysters than you'd think of flying It's a waste of tiive 'em real food This is the second time I've tried my scheme and it's worked both ti's made of wax and papier mache See what I mean? And I'll leave it to you that there isn't a soul out there who is any the wiser By George, it's a great invention I'et in there They're howling for us to begin"

Graydon, his wick, a blase old Knickerbocker whose sole occupation in life was saying rude things about other people To-night he was particularly attentive to his profession He kept Graydon and the toht and uncomfortable in their chairs between hands and positively chilled while the gaa abohts fro nearer and nearer to New York harbour with each succeeding minute In his mind's eye he could look far out over the black waters and see the lonely vessel as it rushed on through the night He wondered if Jane were asleep or awake and thinking of hia, but the Colonel did not apologise for the disagreeable things he had said

It was one o'clock when Graydon reached his rooms There he found a note from Elias Droo you and Miss Cable to dine with o to Sherry's Let me know as soon as you have seen her"