Chapter XIV

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Chapter XIV An indifferent swimmer, Donald Ware had avoided the afternoon sport in the tank; but after dinner, somewhat to the irritation of Graham, the violinist monopolized Paula at the piano. New guests, with the casual expectedness of the Big House, had drifted in—­a lawyer, by name Adolph Well, who had come to confer with d**k over some big water-right suit; Jeremy Braxton, straight from Mexico, d**k’s general superintendent of the Harvest Group, which bonanza, according to Jeremy Braxton, was as “unpetering” as ever; Edwin O’Hay, a red-headed Irish musical and dramatic critic; and Chauncey Bishop, editor and owner of the San Francisco Dispatch , and a member of d**k’s class and frat, as Graham gleaned. Dick had started a boisterous gambling game which he called “Horrible Fi

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