37/40 Jaffery thought it was necessary to explain Ellina in the next chapter, and so in his dull way, he stuck it in." That scene also had I read. It was a little flaming cameo of a low dive on the Barbary Coast, and a presentation of the thing seen, somewhat journalistic, I admit--but such as very few journalists could give. There are disgusting little details that only a man that had been there could have mentioned. Oh! do you suppose I don't know the difference between Adrian's work and that of a penny-a-liner like Jaffery ?" The door opened and Jaffery appeared. Doria went up to him and took him by the lapels of his dress coat. |