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The Tempting of Tavernake

CHAPTER XXIII
12/17

You are not likely to break out and do silly things.

Do you care for adventures ?" "I detest them," Tavernake answered, "especially the sort I tumbled into the other night." Pritchard laughed softly.

They had left the room now and were walking along the open space at the end of the restaurant, leading to the main exit.
"That's the difference between us," he declared thoughtfully.

"Now adventures to me are the salt of my life.

I hang about here and watch these few respectable-looking men and women, and there doesn't seem to be much in it to an outsider, but, gee whiz! there's sometimes things underneath which you fellows don't tumble to.


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