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Stahr’s suit was made of slippery cloth and suddenly he
slipped away from me and went for Brimmer. Brimmer
retreated backward around the table. ere was an odd
expression in his face and aerwards I thought it looked
as if he were saying, “Is this all? is frail half sick person
holding up the whole thing.”
en Stahr came close, his hands going up. It seemed to
me that Brimmer held him o with his le arm a minute
and then I looked away — I couldn’t bear to watch.
When I looked back Stahr was out of sight below the
level of the table and Brimmer was looking down at him.
“Please go home,” I said to Brimmer.
“A l l right.” He stood looking down at Stahr as I came
around the table. “I always wanted to hit ten million dollars
but I didn’t know it would be like this.”
Stahr lay motionless.
“Please go,” I said.
“I’m sorry. Can I help -”
“No. Please go. I understand.”
He looked again, a little awed at the depths of Stahr’s
repose which he had created in a split second. en he
went quickly away over the grass and I knelt down and
shook Stahr. In a moment he came awake with a terric
convulsion and bounced up on his feet.
“Where is he?” he shouted.
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“Who?” I asked innocently.
“at American. Why in hell did you have to marry
him, you damn fool.”
“Monroe — he’s gone. I didn’t marry anybody.”
I pushed him down in a chair.
“He’s been gone half an hour,” I lied.
The pin g-pong balls lay around in the grass like a
constellation of stars. I turned on a sprinkler and came
back with a wet handkerchief but there was no mark on
Stahr — he must have been hit in the side of the hea d.
He went o behind some trees and was sick and I heard
him kicking up some earth over it. Aer that he seemed
all right but he wouldn’t go into the house till I got him
some mouthwash so I took back the whiskey bottle and
got a mouthwash bottle. His wretched essay at getting
drunk was over. I’ve been out with college freshmen but
for sheer ineptitude and absence of the Bacchic spirit it
unquestionably took the cake. Every bad thing happened
to him but that was all.
We went in the house; the cook said Father and Mr.
Marcus and Flieshacker were on the verandah so we stayed
in the “processed leather room.” We both sat down in a
couple of places and seemed to slide o and nally I sat on
a fur rug and Stahr on a footstool beside me.
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212
“Did I hit him?” he asked.
“Oh, yes,” I said. “Quite badly.”
“I don’t believe it.” Aer a minute he added, “I didn’t
want to hurt him. I just wanted to chase him out. I guess
he got scared and hit me.”
If this was his interpretation of what had happened it
was all right with me.
“Do you hold it against him?”
“Oh no,” he said. “I was drunk.” He looked around. “I’ve
never been in here before — who did thi s room — somebody
from the studio?”
“Somebody from New York.”
“Well, I’ll have to get you out of here,” he said in his
old pleasant way. “How would you like to go out to Doug
Fairbanks’ ranch and spend the night? He asked me — I
know he’d l ove to have you.”
at’s how the two weeks started that he and I went
around together. It only took one of them for Louella to
have us married.
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