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The Keeper of the Door

CHAPTER XV
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I'm not hungry to-day." She reached the table, and for the first time seemed to become aware of Max, seated on the opposite side of it.
Her eyes suddenly opened wide.

She stood still and faced him.

"I want my cigarettes," she said, with slow emphasis.
Olga glanced at him sharply, in apprehension of she knew not what.

Max's face, however, expressed no anxiety.

He even faintly smiled.
"What! Haven't you got any?
I shall be happy to supply you with some," he said, feeling in his pocket for his own case.
She leaned her hands upon the table in a peculiar, crouching attitude that struck Olga as curiously suggestive of an angry animal.
"I don't want yours," she said, in a deep voice that sounded almost like a menace.


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