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Updated: June 13, 2025
But there he was when he came out of his abstraction: there in those familiar surroundings, with Tracey's round red face beaming at him over the cigar-stand like a lively counterfeit of the round red moon he had watched lift up into the skies, back there in the still countryside, just as he paused to turn back to town.
But, if I speak to him inside a week, well ! Well, I gotta be going. Goodbye, honey." The cigar-stand girl turned to attend to an impatient customer, and the Girl Friend, walking with the firm and decisive steps which indicate character, made for the swing-door leading to the street. And as she went, the paralysis which had pipped Archie released its hold.
The Imperial was a resort not far from the corner of Sutter and Kearney streets, a few doors below a certain well-known drug store, in one window of which was a showcase full of live snakes. The front of the Imperial was painted white, and there was a cigar-stand in the vestibule of the main entrance.
That he might know they were on watch, they agreed, after they dismissed the taxi-cabs, to send one of them into the Boston Post Road past the road-house. When it was directly in front of the café, the chauffeur would throw away into the road an empty cigarette-case. From the cigar-stand they selected a cigarette box of a startling yellow. At half a mile it was conspicuous.
"I'm glad you think I acted right, dearie," said the Girl Friend. "I guess I've been too weak with Gus, and he's took advantage of it. I s'pose I'll have to forgive him one of these old days, but, believe me, it won't be for a week." The cigar-stand girl was in favour of a fortnight. "No," said the Girl Friend, regretfully. "I don't believe I could hold out that long.
"It was magnificent! Those two great artists! But over all the play the play! Romance new-born; poesy marching with victorious banners; a great spirit breathing! Like 'Cyrano' the birth-mark of immortality on this work!" There was another pause, after which old Tom turned slowly to me, and said: "Homer Tibbs's opened up a cigar-stand at the deepo.
At the entrance to the big office-building he debated a moment. "Wait!" he directed Paul. He was uncertain how long he might be permitted to remain in that building. If he must go to jail, he would ride. He wondered if Paul knew the address of the best jail. He could have things sent in to him magazines and fruit. Inside the entrance he paused before the cigar-stand.
I seen m' girl friend yesterday, and Gus was taking her to the movies last night, so I guess everything's nice and smooth." Archie breathed a sigh of relief. "Took her to the movies, did he? Stout fellow!" "I was at the funniest picture last week," said the cigar-stand girl. "Honest, it was a scream! It was like this " Archie listened politely; then went in to get a bite of lunch.
His business had deteriorated during his absence, but he put new blood and new life into it. He did not go to work in the shop himself, but, taking down the shingle that had swung idly before his office door during his imprisonment, he opened the little room as a news- and cigar-stand. Here anxious, pitying custom came to him and he prospered again. He was very quiet.
To the girl who waited on him he whispered that he wanted her to arrange for two cars to wait at the main entrance of the Hotel La Salle at ten o'clock. He strolled out and immediately felt himself shadowed. He reached the hotel, looked at the register very carefully, as if there was something there he wanted to see, then turned to the cigar-stand.
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