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Penelope impulsively gripped more tightly on Labar's arm, but the detective could afford to take his antagonist's sneer with a certain amount of equanimity.
"I told you that you couldn't go on bucking against the machine forever, Larry," he said. "And talking of fools, what made you mad enough to go to Rye?"