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Chapter 24

           "Comeinourrooms,"saidDick.

           AbeinsistedthatRosemarycometooandtheycrossedthehalltotheDivers’suite.JulesPeterson,asmall,respectableNegro,onthesuavemodelthatheelstheRepublicanpartyintheborderStates,followed.

           ItappearedthatthelatterhadbeenalegalwitnesstotheearlymorningdisputeinMontparnasse;hehadaccompaniedAbetothepolicestationandsupportedhisassertionthatathousandfrancnotehadbeenseizedoutofhishandbyaNegro,whoseidentificationwasoneofthepointsofthecase.AbeandJulesPeterson,accompaniedbyanagentofpolice,returnedtothebistroandtoohastilyidentifiedasthecriminalaNegro,who,soitwasestablishedafteranhour,hadonlyenteredtheplaceafterAbeleft.ThepolicehadfurthercomplicatedthesituationbyarrestingtheprominentNegrorestaurateur,Freeman,whohadonlydriftedthroughthealcoholicfogataveryearlystageandthenvanished.Thetrueculprit,whosecase,asreportedbyhisfriends,wasthathehadmerelycommandeeredafifty-francnotetopayfordrinksthatAbehadordered,hadonlyrecentlyandinasomewhatsinisterrôle,reappeareduponthescene.

           Inbrief,Abehadsucceededinthespaceofanhourinentanglinghimselfwiththepersonallives,consciences,andemotionsofoneAfro-EuropeanandthreeAfro-AmericansinhabitingtheFrenchLatinquarter.

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