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One Wonderful Night

CHAPTER VIII
19/28

Milor' Valletort, he ees acquaint.

Send for heem, and bring ze doctaire." "Don't you understand that your friend, Mr.Hunter, the journalist who was helping you in the matter of Lady Hermione Grandison's marriage, has been murdered ?" The other men in the room caught a new quality in Steingall's voice.
Contempt, disgust, utter disdain of a type of rascal whom he would prefer to deal with most fittingly by kicking him, were revealed in each syllable; but Jean de Courtois was apparently deaf to the mean opinion his conduct was inducing among those who had extricated him from a disagreeable if not actually dangerous predicament.

He squirmed convulsively, and half sobbed his inability to realize the true nature of anything that had happened either to himself or to any other person.
"Very well," said the detective, "if you are so thoroughly knocked out I'll see that you are kept quiet for the rest of the evening." He turned to the clerk.
"Kindly arrange that two trustworthy men shall undress this ill-used gentleman.

He may be given anything to eat or drink that he requires, but if he shows signs of delirium, such as a desire to go out, or write letters, or use the telephone, he must be stopped, forcibly if necessary.

Should he become violent, ring up the nearest police station-house.


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