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. "Where is that dear, dear American Prince?"

"Gone." Reifenstein choked out the word, his face very red.

"Run away? From me? me?" Then the singer turned upon Zack and berated him. "So your terreeble, terreeble fighter is run away—run from a woman?"

"No, ma'am," Zack defended him. "No, ma'am, he ain't run away. I seen Cunnel look at his watch; he got er engagement down stairs to kill a man."

They could not embrace the Colonel, so Castelleone and Torreale embraced each other.