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CHITS AND CATS
"I may be wrong," he admitted. "And if Mr. Borkman thinks he can—"
"Oh, absolutely," boomed the courier. "Perfectly simple. It's too fine a bargain to miss."
"Then I'll take him," declared Laura quickly, opened her purse, and closed the argument.
The Chinaman grinned, by a sleight of hand passed the bank-notes apparently into his belly, and rejected the blue cats headlong into his wife's apartment. The fawn-coloured hero sat staring with ice-blue eyes, haughty and intellectual.
"Isn't he a lordly creature?" said the girl, sitting down beside him on the platform. "What shall I name him? Something that's big and dignified"—she mused—"and Siamese.…"
"Call him Chao Phya, then," suggested Owen.
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