“May I be allowed to say,” he declared, “that I came here with the same intention. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in Marylebone. ‘I have an arthritic complaint, which is why you find me retired from fashionable life. “For nothing, do you call it?” he declared. When he finally telegraphed his startling information to Hong-Kong, it was too late for O'Higgins to act. ’ Gerald could not resist. Pausing at each door on the landing, Jack placed his ear to the keyhole, and listened intently.
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