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Updated: June 22, 2025
But it was not the chance of a successful gamble which brought him so often to the tap-room. For years now he had dangled round Klara's fashionable skirts, and it seemed as if at last his constancy was to be rewarded.
"Father mightn't like it. I'd have to ask him." "D n your father!" "And that fool, Leopold, is so insanely jealous." "D n him too," said the young man quietly. Whereupon he took the morocco case out of Klara's hand, shut it with a snap and put it back into his pocket. "What are you doing?" cried Klara in a fright. "As you see, pretty one, I am putting the bracelet away for future use."
The hint of the gold watch had stirred Klara's pulses. A tête-
Then he took his cigarette-case out of his pocket, selected a cigarette, struck a match and lit it, still avoiding Klara's fixed and staring gaze. "I'll go and smoke this outside," he said quietly. "I can see both doors from the corner. When you have found that back-door key you may go to Elsa Kapus' wedding feast, but not before."
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