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MURDER. WITHOUT TEARS
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LEONARD LUPTON
It was cool in the barroom. These old Hudson River houses, built by the brickyard owners, had a depth and dimension that offset humidity and June sunlight. I sat there in the caned chair at the round table with the checkered cloth and wondered what old Jason Prescott would have thought of my turning his mansion into a fashionable ginmill. I wondered what my old man would have thought of it, also. He had been straw boss at the Prescott brickyard. He had given them a service, a loyalty, a real humility that has gone out of date today. And a good thing it has.
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I said, “How do you do?” I thought that if I had any sense I would pay some attention to Eloise Ruysdale. She was a brunette and I had always liked the dark ones. But I found it difficult in the presence of Anne Cramer—only she came through at the moment.
I came back from the bar with the three glasses. I know that it is poor practice to drink with the customer—I haven’t the paunch for it and I don’t really like the stuff. But I knew an occasion, and this was one.
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