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"Easily enough, as it happened. Ninety-nine per cent. of gentlemen's valets are keen sports. Barbers and hotel-porters run them close. I do a bit that way myself " The barrister groaned. "Not often, sir, but this is holiday time, you see. Anyhow, I gave the hall-porter, whom I know, the wink to come to a neighbouring bar during his time off for tea.
Everything interested them; the black face of the Sudanese engine driver who looked down from his huge British locomotive, the display of English, French and German literature mingled with Greek, Italian, Arab, or Turkish papers on the bookstall; the ebony and copper-coloured luggage carriers who seemed eager to take one another's lives, but in reality desired no more than to snatch each other's jobs, under the eyes of the uniformed hotel-porters.
"Yes, please, Harvey!" she called. An astonished darky sprang from the line of calling hotel-porters and took her bag. Then every tooth in his head flashed. "Lordy, Miss June I never knowed you at all." June smiled it was the tribute she was looking for. "Have you seen Mr. Hale?" "No'm. Mr. Hale ain't been here for mos' six months. I reckon he aint in this country now.
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