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"He has a handsome flat in Shaftesbury Avenue," Peter answered, "where he lives, to all appearance, the life of an idle man of fashion. The whole of his spare time is spent with Mademoiselle Louise, the danseuse at the Empire. You see, it is half-past eight now. I have eleven men altogether at work, and according to my last report he was dining with her in the grill-room at the Milan.
He had schooled himself in the tongue, he had lived in the bazaars, to no end? He was still the craven who had sent in his papers? The quiet confidence with which he had revealed his plan to Lieutenant Sutch over the table in the Criterion grill-room was the mere vainglory of a man who continually deceived himself? And Ethne?...
He packed a bag, and went to Paris. There, in the discomforts of life in a foreign country, he contrived for a month to forget his white elephant. He returned by the evening train which deposits the traveler in London in time for dinner. Strangely enough, nothing was farther from Roland's mind than his bright weekly paper, as he sat down to dine in a crowded grill-room near Piccadilly Circus.
Through the hordes of people with cable cars marching like panoplied elephants, he was able to distinguish the German, motionless and gazing after him. Coleman laughed. " That's a comic old boy," he said, to himself. In the grill-room of a Broadway hotel he was obliged to wait some minutes for the fulfillment of his orders and he spent the time in reading and studying the little grey note.
"What's the matter?" queried Hough, when he saw the direction they were taking. "Isn't the club grill-room good enough for you?" Sidwell pursued his way unmoved. "I said I wished to talk with you." "I guess I must be dense," Hough answered gayly. "I certainly never saw any house rules that forbid a man to speak." Sidwell looked at his companion with a whimsical expression.
"Dear old Squiffy was always like that. It's a gift. However woozled he might be, it was impossible to detect it with the naked eye. I've seen the dear old chap many a time whiffled to the eyebrows, and looking as sober as a bishop. Soberer! When did it begin to dawn on the lads in the grill-room that the old egg had been pushing the boat out?" "The head waiter," said Mr.
When they arrived on the scene of hostilities, the young man had just possessed himself of the walking-stick, and was deep in a complex argument with the head-waiter on the ethics of the matter. The head-waiter, a stout impassive German, had taken his stand on a point of etiquette. "Id is," he said, "to bring gats into der grill-room vorbidden. No gendleman would gats into der grill-room bring.
You may remember Mr Ford mentioning her in his telegram I left her to search the restaurant and grill-room, with instructions to bring Ogden, if found, to me in this room. The door-bell rang. He went to the door and opened it. 'Come in, Mrs Sheridan. Ah! A girl in a plain, neat blue dress entered the room.
"She looks sorter green, and repeats after me: 'Dead, with a chorus girl, and a roll of bills gone, just like a parrot. Then she springs this on me: 'My God, it's the third!" Shirley dropped his cigarette, leaning forward, all nonchalance gone. "Where is she now? Quick, let's go to her." He rose to his feet. Just then a door-boy walked through the grill-room toward him.
A simple task, for, the longer he was with this girl, the easier did it seem to talk to her. Jill, left alone in the lobby, was finding the moments pass quite pleasantly. She liked watching the people as they came in. One or two of the girls of the company fluttered in like birds, were swooped upon by their cavaliers, and fluttered off to the grill-room.
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