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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER VI
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He resented the provocation, that was all, and it made him the more brutally inclined towards her.
As for Doris, she fought and tore at his grasp like a mad creature; and when he mastered her, when, still laughing between his teeth, he forced her face upwards and kissed it fiercely and violently, she shrieked between his kisses, shrieked and shrieked again.
The sudden grinding of the brake recalled Brandon to his senses.

The fool was actually stopping the car.

He relinquished his hold upon the girl to dash his hand against the window in front.
"Drive on, curse you, drive on!" he shouted through the glass.

"I'll let you know if we want to stop." But the car stopped in spite of him.

The chauffeur, shining from head to foot in his oil-skins, sprang to the ground.


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