_Then headlong down the stair of life he fell, while up that stairway others laughed and mounted and all were drunken with the wine of youth._ The murder of Monty Paliser, headlined that morning in the papers, shook the metropolis at breakfast, buttered the toast, improved the taste of the coffee.…
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