Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.

We're on 23rd Street.

Its hopes may be nipped in the bud by distortion, or halation, or abrasion, or reticulation, or electrification, or carbunculation, until it must be as unlikely that any negative should emerge perfect from the dark-room chrysalis as that a bomb should rop from a Zeppelin on to this page and dot its i's and cross its t's.

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