54 (The Inferno)

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“ What is your object in this?”

“ Do you know Francis Schlatter?”

“ I have never heard the name.”

“ Don’t you remember that doctor in America
last year.”

“ Oh, yes! that quack!”

He remembers, and I show him the portrait
and facsimile.

He laughs sceptically, and remains quite calm
and indifferent. That is all.

Some days later I am sitting with my mysterious
friend, with our glasses of absinthe, on
the terrace of the Café de Versailles, when a
fellow in workman’s clothes, with a malicious
aspect, suddenly stops before the café, then
rushes through the customers, and bawls at my
friend in his loudest voice: “At last I have
you, you sharper, who fleeced me! What is the
meaning of it? First of all, you order a cross
for thirty francs, and then you disappear. Son
of a dog! Do you think a cross like that makes
itself?”

He continued to rage. The café waiters vainly
attempted to remove him; he threatened to fetch
the police, while the unfortunate accused,
motionless, dumb, and prostrate, like a condemned

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