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self on Whitecap lest he might become
angry at the mere sight of her and treasure his anger up against the next time when she would need the drug.
Already there was the most marvelous change in her. She seemed captivated by the musicthe dancingthe
life which a few moments before she had totally disregarded.
She was seated alonenot far from usand as she glanced about Kennedy caught her eye. She allowed her
gaze to rest on us for a momentthe signal for a mild flirtation which ended in our exchange of tables and we
found ourselves opposite the drug fiendwho was following up the taking of the dope by a thin-stemmed glass
of a liqueur.
I do not recall the conversationbut it was one of those inconsequential talks that Bohemians consider so
brilliant and everybody else so vapid. As we skimmed from one subject to anothertreating the big facts of
life as if they were mere incidents and the little as if they overshadowed all elseI could see that Craigwho
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had a faculty of probing into the very soul of anyonewhen he chosewas gradually leading around to a
subject which I knew he wantedabove all othersto discuss.
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