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Updated: May 28, 2025
Mumford's voice gives out, or she gets to the end of a chapter. Anyway, she informs us cheerful that it's time young folks was gettin' in their beauty sleep; so Vee goes off to her stateroom, and after I've helped J. Dudley Simms burn up a couple of his special cork-tipped Russians, I turns in myself.
Slipping the case into his pocket, he glanced about on the floor and something just within the negative room caught his eye. Once more he bent down. With a speculative expression he picked up the cork-tipped stub of a cigarette. At this instant Manton returned, breathing hard as though his pursuit of the missing Wagnalls had been very determined.
And after all the cork-tipped cigarettes I have given you, and all the ninety-three I have given your Auntie Lucinda why look at the empty message bottles she and you have thrown out into the helpless and unhelping bayou a perfect fleet of them, bobbing around. Shan't I send the boys overboard to gather them in for you again?"
Some one had evidently visited the inventor the night before, had apparently offered him a cigarette, for there were any number of the cork-tipped stubs lying about. Who was it? I caught Paula looking with fascinated gaze at the gold-tipped stub, as Kennedy carefully folded it up in a piece of paper and deposited it in his pocket. Did she know something about the case, I wondered?
Roger was examining the tumbler she had recently set down. "Jacques also seems to have a nice taste in cigarettes," he remarked. "Extravagant fellow altogether." He indicated the floor, which was littered with stubs, mostly cork-tipped, though there was an occasional scarlet tip here and there. "Jacques smokes only those cheap Marylands that come in a blue packet," Esther replied, laughing.
The butts of cigars and innumerable cork-tipped cigarettes lay smothered in gray ashes that spilled untidily in sundry ash-trays. There was a char of burned paper in the open grate where a few coals still glowed redly.
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