Geiger can collect on these notes, unless you can show fraud. Carmen is still a minor under her mother's will. I shrugged into my coat and watched him come. The butler came along the red path with smooth light steps and his back as straight as an ironing board. The chauffeur over by the garage had gone away. I stood up and lifted my coat off the back of the damp wicker chair and went off with it among the orchids, opened the two doors and stood outside in the brisk October air getting myself some oxygen. The General blinked at me and plucked at the edge of his rug. The heat didn't get any less hot with the brandy in me. I finished my second drink and wiped my lips and my face. And it would take an awful lot of chiselers an awful lot of time to rob you of enough so that you'd even notice it." But nobody's going to break your heart, if it hasn't been done already. "It's a question of a little money against a lot of annoyance.
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