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JAKE CAME IN the door, avoided Felice's eye, turned into the hall, and started up the stairs, only to find old Ben Mickelson planted squarely in his way. Jake despised old Ben, for being a disgusting, profane, purple-lipped old drunkard, but he was the Sculls' butler and it was necessary to be polite to him.
It was necessary but it wasn't easy: old Ben was looking at Jake with a mean gleam in his watery blue eyes.