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That made her practically irresistible. Would it come off if he kissed her? He had to find out. Finally he said, so helplessly, passively, that it would be more accurate to say it was said by him: "Say, Miss Adair, I'm a dead-goner if you don't gimme a kiss." Kedzie was horrified. Skip Magruder would have been eleganter than that. She answered, with dignity: "Certainly, if you so desire."
"Come, come, Chief!" "A dead-goner, old chap; you just get that into your head. Not as Arsène Lupin, ex-burglar, ex-convict, ex-anything you please I'm unattackable on that ground but as Don Luis Perenna, respectable man, residuary legatee, and the rest of it. And it's too stupid! For, after all, who will find the murderers of Cosmo, Vérot, and the two Fauvilles, if they go clapping me into jail?"
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