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The Grand Babylon Hotel

CHAPTER Eleven THE COURT PAWNBROKER
9/19

I had ordered him never to enter the Babylon again.
But on that evening I encountered him here--not in the Gold Room, but in the hotel itself.

I asked him to explain his presence, and he stated he was your guest.

That is all I know of the matter, Mr Levi, and I am extremely sorry that you should have thought me capable of the enormity of placing a private detective among your guests.' 'This is perfectly satisfactory to me,' Mr Sampson Levi said, after a pause.
'I only wanted an explanation, and I've got it.

I was told by some pals of mine in the City I might rely on Mr Theodore Racksole going straight to the point, and I'm glad they were right.

Now as to that feller Jules, I shall make my own inquiries as to him.


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