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Chapter 1. A Grapefruit Prelude
_ CHAPTER I. A GRAPEFRUIT PRELUDE
Splash! The grapefruit hit her in the eye!
Splash! His psychic wave was dashed to smithereens!
"Oh! Oh!" the two girls screamed in unison.
"D----!" the young man sitting near ejaculated.
For ten minutes there in the Oak Room of the Ritz-Carlton he had been hurling across the narrow intervening space this mental command to the girl facing him:
"Look here! Look at me! Let me see your eyes! Look here!"
For half that time she had been conscious of his insistent gaze and his message. But with as much will power as he himself displayed she bent her head over her plate and sent back along his telepathic transmission this reply:
"I won‘t! I won‘t!"
But she was weakening.
"Sadie," she said to her companion, "I do awfully want to look up. I want to see who is looking at me so fiercely. I can just feel it all through me. Of course it wouldn‘t be proper, would it?"
"Well, that all depends on who is lookin
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