Day of Doom: the Complete Battles of Gordon Manning & the Griffin, volume 2

Authors: J. Allan Dunn

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“said the police commissioner as he accepted appreciatively the imported cigar offered him in the humidor Manning slid across the table. He clipped it with an outmoded but eminently practical gold cigar-cutter, lit it at the standing lighter on the table, and leaned back in the big club chair with the air of a comparatively casual and thoroughly contented visitor.Tanaka, Manning’s Japanese butler, entered silently, with ice, charged water and two kinds of whisky in square decanters.Belden, the c...ommissioner, selected rye. Manning chose the Scotch. Highballs were skillfully compounded by Tanaka.The guest pledged his host.“Good luck to you! Hope you’ll always look as well as you do now.”“Thanks,” Manning answered. “I’m feeling fairly fit, but I’ll be fitter after I’ve had my vacation. King’s invited me for a Caribbean cruise.”He knew then, in his bones, that the cruise was off, so far as he was concerned. He knew that the police commissioner had not come out to Manning’s house at Pelham Manor, driving himself, and using a private car, to make complimentary remarks about Manning’s appearance.MoreLess Read More Read Less