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Cabell went back to the bar and called for another drink. For some time he reflected on the strange woman, whose strangeness, of course, consisted largely in the mere fact that she was a woman and that she was here.
-"Who's that fellow Jem?" he tried to draw the barman. But Fritz had had enough of gossip with Cabell for one day. "I don't know no such things," he said sourly. "Ligger, zat's my business."