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Updated: June 29, 2025
It flashed, and produced forthwith a feeling of joyous elation at the prospect of lively events in the near future of a battle between the Vatican and the Quirinal. Coming on the top of Muhlen's murder which was a decided improvement upon his alleged flight it caused the citizens to talk in excited and almost random fashion about what was coming next.
But he owes me a lot of whiskies, the blighter." "You're lucky. Gone off with thirty francs of mine." "Damn his eyes. I expect we're not the only ones." "Not by a long chalk. Come and have a drink." "Heard the news? Muhlen's murdered." "Serve him bloody well right. The blackguard owes me two francs fifty. I'll bet it was some money business." "Not a bit of it. A little girl, you know.
It was unpleasant, maybe, to hurtle through eight hundred feet of air. But men who specialize in making themselves objectionable after Muhlen's peculiar fashion deserve all they can get. Sensible women do not put up with such nonsense, if they can help it. One owes something to one's self, N'EST-CE PAS? Decidedly so. Everything was as clear as daylight.
Alone, the members of the Alpha and Omega Club, thanks to the benign influence of Parker's poison, received the successive waves of information with composure, and preserved from beginning to end their sense of proportion. "Heard the news? Muhlen's bolted." "I thought he would." "They say he owes a good deal." "Obviously. Else he wouldn't have bolted. Good riddance, anyhow." "That's what I say.
For all one knew, it might have been Muhlen's. The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
Signor Malipizzo's cruel travesty of justice how unfavourably it compared with his cousin's altogether satisfactory, straightforward and businesslike handling of Muhlen's little affair! Doubtless she suffered intensely.
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