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For, burning on the altars of that lonely heart of Clayton's was the fierce fire which bound him now as the worshipper of the velvet-voiced Magyar witch. He, too, had some one to fight for now, and his ardent fancy painted her in every glowing color of the passion of young manhood. Left alone to his daily affairs, Randall Clayton now lived behind an impenetrable mask.
Not one in one hundred of his patrons knew the secret of that room with its cosy divans and a private entrance to the stairway of an adjoining fashionable photograph gallery. But the dealers in the "queer," the handlers of lottery tickets, the pool-sellers, the oily green-goods man, and many a velvet-voiced, silken clad Delilah knew the pathway to that inner room.
"Don't forget the velvet-voiced beauty of the dark, moonless night on the Cape Town Hotel verandah!" "She turned out to be a Hottentot lady, didn't she?" "Cavalry Problem No. 1.
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