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When the waitress came back, he whispered a word or two to her; the waitress nodded with full comprehension for everybody knew Melky at Goldmark's, and if the waitresses wanted a little jewellery now and then, he let them have it at cost price. "So you can give me the checks for both," said Melky. "I'll pay 'em."
And in that space, beneath his bird's-eye blue tie, loosely knotted in a bow, Zillah saw a stud, which her experienced eyes knew to be of platinum, and on it was engraved the same curious device which she had seen once before that day on the solitaire exhibited by Melky. The girl was instantly certain that here was the man who had visited Mrs. Goldmark's eating-house.
I saw it by accident in your place the other night, and one o' your girls told me. Now then, Mr. Purdie, here's a bit more of puzzlement and perhaps a clue. These here platinum solitaire cuff-links are valuable they're worth well, I'd give a good few pounds for the pair. Now who's the man who lost one in this here parlour right there! and the other in Mrs. Goldmark's restaurant? For it's a pair!
Goldmark's later works, 'Die Kriegsgefangene' and 'Götz von Berlichingen' , have been less successful. 'Kunihild, a work dealing with a heroic legend, was produced in 1883.
Goldmark's," suggested Melky. "I shall have my hands full tonight at the poor old man's, but I ain't had nothing since dinner." Lauriston, however, excused himself. He wanted to go home and write letters at once. But he promised to look round at the pawnshop later in the evening, to see if he could be of any use, and to give Melky a full account of his finding of the old pawnbroker.
He made his first public appearance in America, in the double capacity of pianist and composer, at a Kneisel Quartet concert in Chickering Hall, Boston, on November 19, 1888, playing the Prelude, Intermezzo, and Presto from his first piano suite, and, with Kneisel and his associates, the piano part in Goldmark's B-flat Quintet. He was cordially received, and Mr.
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