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He hailed a passing cab superbly, and the cabman was infinitely respectful. "Schafer's," he said, and off we went side by side and with me more and more amazed at all these things to Schafer's Hotel, the second of the two big places with huge lace curtain-covered windows, near the corner of Blackfriars Bridge.
Kenset went swiftly across the cabin to that part which served as kitchen, and took from a curtain-covered set of shelves, a shiny nickel object on spindly legs, which he brought and placed near Tharon on the table. He struck a match and presently a clean blue flame grew up beneath it. He lifted the lid and filled the small pot, thereby exposed, with water from the bucket on a bench.
Now, as dawn approached, one of them, worn out with watching, wearied with that blessed fatigue of anxiety which dulls the senses, had laid her down on the curtain-covered bed to sleep. While Marie slept Jocelyn Gordon walked softly backwards and forwards with Nestorius in her arms. Nestorius was probably dying.
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