Shot With Crimson
By George Barr McCutcheon
29 Aug, 2019
They represented the reluctant element of a large company that had spent the afternoon and early evening at the Black Downs Country Club,the element that is always reluctant to go home. There had been many intimate little dinner parties during the ev
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They represented the reluctant element of a large company that had spent the afternoon and early evening at the Black Downs Country Club,the element that is always reluctant to go home. There had been many intimate little dinner parties during the evening. New York was twenty miles or more away, and there was the Hudson in between. The clock above the huge fireplace had struck eleven a minute or two before the first explosion took place. Chauffeurs in the club-garage were sullenly cursing their employers. All but two or three waiters had gone off to the railway station not far away, and the musicians had made the 10:30 up-train. Peter, the steward, lived on the premises with the chef and several house employes. Less