15/60 When he started he felt fairly cowardly. He stopped at the drug store and bought a pound of peppermints. Albion Bennet was an intensely black-haired man in his forties. His black hair was always sleek with a patent hair-oil which he carried in his stock. He always wore a red tie and an old-fashioned scarf-pin set with a tiny diamond, and his collars were made of celluloid. |