11/17 "That's the plain truth of it. You know old Kitely--your partner's tenant? Bent felt the arm into which he had just slipped his own literally quiver with a spasmodic response to the astonished brain; the pipe which Mallalieu was smoking fell from his lips; out of his lips came something very like a cry of dismay. "You don't say so ?" "It's a fact," said Bent. He stopped and picked up the fallen pipe. |