"After all, why not celebrate? It's the last day of the year and it won't come again for twelve months." Jerome Fandor, reporter on the popular newspaper, _La Capitale_, was strolling along the boulevard; he had just come from a banquet, one of those official and deadly affairs at which the guests are obliged to listen to interminable speeches. He had drowsed through the evening and at the first opportunity had managed to slip away quickly.…
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