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90 “No, he’s a film-actor.”

“Well, why should I have such aristocratic friends?”

The fact was that Watari’s appearance reminded Ishida of Bancroft, the film-actor who had played the part of the hero in some pictures of the fife of New York dockers. Like Watari, the hero had met every danger with a calm and courageous face.