Chapter 14: Rocco Answers Some Questions

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​​​‌‌​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌​​⁠Rocco turned round with the swiftness of a startled tiger, and gave Theodore Racksole one long piercing glance.

‘D—n!’ said Rocco, with as pure an Anglo-Saxon accent and intonation as Racksole himself could have accomplished.

The most extraordinary thing about the situation was that at this juncture Theodore Racksole did not know what to say. He was so dumbfounded by the affair, and especially by Ro