One kind, for example, wears hair that matches my cuff-links.

Odd, isn't it ?" he added, examining the golden links with a smile.
Hamil nodded inattentively.
"I am about seven thousand dollars ahead on the other sort of luck," observed Malcourt.

"If it holds to-night I'll inaugurate a killing that will astonish the brothers B.yonder.By the way, now that you have your club ticket why don't you use it ?--one way or another." "Perhaps," replied Hamil listlessly.
A few minutes later Malcourt, becoming bored, genially took his leave; and Hamil turned on an electric jet and began to undo his collar and tie.
He was in no hurry; at times he suspended operations to pace aimlessly to and fro; and after a while, half undressed, he dropped into an arm-chair, clinched hands supporting his temples.
Presently he said aloud to himself: "It's absolutely impossible.

It can't happen this way.

How can it ?" His heavy pulse answered the question; a tense strain, irksome as an ache, dragged steadily at something within him which resisted; dulling reason and thought.
For a long time he sat there inert, listening for the sound of her voice which echoed at moments through the stunned silence within him.