Authors: Hugh Pentecost
Shape of Fear (22 page)
Chambrun put out his cigarette in an ash tray on the table. He looked tired. “If you don’t need us any more, Clark, Mark and I would like to be excused. We have a hotel to run. It must be gotten back on a level keel.”
The Beaumont—a way of life. Tomorrow there would be no visible signs that its calm surface had ever been ruffled. Chambrun would see to that.
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