Comfort Station

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FRED DINGBAT — omnibus operative, proud of his position in intraurban transit. Too proud?

MO MOWGLI — custodian of the Comfort Station. What was there about his past that haunted him?

ARBOGAST SMITH — plainclothes patrolman. In responsibility he found anodyne — and the testing of his strength.

HERBERT Q. LUMINOUS — bookkeeper on the run. What happened to him was almost a cliché.

CAROLINA WEISS — onetime Russian countess now A & E mechanic. In the arms of another man she sought forgetfulness.

GENERAL RAMON SAN MARTINEZ TORTILLA — deposed dictator. What was it he wanted to get off his chest?

FINGERS FOGELHEIMER — mobster. Out of the thrilling days of yesteryear, he returns for vengeance.

LANCE CAVENDISH — Black. With him and thirty-five cents you can take the subway.

Rain.

Rain poured down like water out of the cloud-covered sky, which was above the city. Every intricate individual drop of the hydrous stuff, composed of two parts hydrogen for every lonely solitary part oxygen, fell on the already-drenched city like a cloudburst.

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