[The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tempting of Tavernake CHAPTER XIX 22/23
So surely as men and women exist who live as you do, so surely must the law wait upon their heels.
You cannot cheat justice. It is as inexorable as Time itself.
When you try these little tricks, you simply give another turn to the wheel, add another danger to life. You had better learn to look upon me as necessary, all of you, for I am certainly inevitable." They passed backwards through the door, then they went down the silent hall and out into the street.
Even as they did so, the clock struck a quarter to two. "My friend Tavernake," Pritchard declared, lighting a cigarette with steady fingers, "you are a man.
Come into the club with me while I bathe my forehead.
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