Word: maturin
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world that has forgotten it. As for putting stories together, he.can put one inside the other, so that the one within illumines that without like a candle shining through a curtain. Such is his tale about Capcl Maturin, the Ace of Cads, who shamed Sir Gray de Gramercy by taking a check for ?1000 that was owed him and refusing a girl that was not; and the bit about Miss Wycks who lived, just for one minute, "Where the Pigeons Go To Die." But sometimes again Dikran just writes something...