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In the Quarter by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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their mutual understanding had been perfect.

"Where are you going to, you old fiend?" said Clifford, tickling the
parrot's throat.

"Hell!" shrieked the bird.

"Good Heavens! I never taught him that," said Gethryn.

Clifford smiled, without committing himself.

"But where were you, Rex?" asked Elliott.

Rex flushed. "Hullo," cried Clifford, "here's Reginald blushing. If
I didn't know him better I'd swear there's a woman in it." The dark
figure at the end of the room rose and walked swiftly over, and Rex
saw that it was Braith, as he had supposed.

"I swear I forgot him," laughed Elliott. "What a queer bird you
are, Braith, squatting over there as silent as a stuffed owl!"

"He has been walking his legs off after you," began Clifford, but
Braith cut him short with a brusque --

"Where were you, Rex?"

Gethryn winced. "I'd rather -- I think" -- he began, slowly --

"Excuse me -- it's not my business," growled Braith, throwing
himself into a seat and beginning to rub Mrs Gummidge the wrong way.
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