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VI VISITATION
VII TURN ABOUT
VIII IN RE AMOR ET AL
IX BLIND MAN'S BUFF
X BUT AS A MUSTARD SEED
XI AU REVOIR
XII TRAVELS WITH AN ASSASSIN
XIII ATHENAIS
XIV DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
XV ADIEU
XVI THE HOUSE OF LILITH
XVII CHEZ LIANE
XVIII BROTHER AND SISTER
XIX SIX BOTTLES OF CHAMPAGNE
XX THE SYBARITES
XXI SOUNDINGS
XXII OUT OF SOUNDINGS
XXIII THE CIGARETTE
XXIV HISTORIC REPETITION
XXV THE MALCONTENT
XXVI THE BINNACLE
XXVII ÇA VA BIEN!
XXVIII FINALE
ALIAS
THE LONE WOLF
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WALKING PAPERS
Through the suave, warm radiance of that afternoon of Spring in England a gentleman of modest and commonly amiable deportment bore a rueful countenance down Piccadilly and into Halfmoon street, where presently he introduced it to one whom he found awaiting him in his lodgings, much at ease in his easiest chair, making free with his whiskey and tobacco, and reading a slender brown volume selected from his shelves.
This dégagé person was patently an Englishman, though there were traces of Oriental ancestry in his cast. The other, he of the doleful habit, was as unmistakably of Gallic pattern, though he dressed and carried himself in a thoroughly Anglo-Saxon fashion, and even seemed a trace intrigued when greeted by a name distinctively French.
For the Englishman, rousing from his appropriated ease, dropped his book to the floor beside the chair, uprose and extended a cordial hand, exclaiming: "H'are ye, Monsieur Duchemin?"
To this the other responded, after a slight pause, obscurely enough: "Oh! ancient history, eh? Well, for the matter of that: How are you, Mister Wertheimer?"
Their hands fell apart, and Monsieur Duchemin proceeded to do away his hat and stick and chamois gloves; while his friend, straddling in front of a cold grate and extending his hands to an imaginary bla