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"EVERY CHAMBER LOADED" 74
HE LIFTED THE BLADE ONCE MORE 146
THEN THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN 294
THE GATHERING CLOUD
Impatiently, Ashton-Kirk threw down the last of the morning newspapers.
"Commonplace," said he. "And sordid. I am inclined to agree with De Quincey's 'Toad-in-the-Hole' that the age of great criminals has passed."
The man to whom he spoke sat opposite him in the lounging room of Scanlon's Gymnasium; a pair of puffy white hands were folded over a bloated paunch; he had a sodden air of over-feeding and over-stimulation.
"And a good job, too," spoke this gentleman. "We can get along very well without those fellows."
"I am not sure that I quite agree with that," said Ashton-Kirk. He lighted a cigar and its smoke drifted across the high ceilinged room. "Crimes are growing no fewer; and if we must have crimes I should personally prefer their perpetrators to have some little artistry."
The swollen gentleman grunted.
"You were always an odd kind of fish," said he. "But, you know, every one hasn't your love of this kind of thing."
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