The publication, or threatened publication, of these Arabian Nights’ entertainments—together with odds and ends of undiscovered murders committed by various friends and relatives—should not only make good sensational reading, but should bring about an upheaval that might quite conceivably be climaxed by my own murder. _That’s_ my fresh idea of an escape expressed in so many words! And however you look at it, it’s such a gay, pleasant, bad game—and so worthy of my associations with B.
And the Devil said to Mr. Legree, “I like your style, so wicked and free Come sit and share my throne with me—”
Yes, I’m all for trying it. And I even dropped B. a hint of something in the wind as I passed him by. I think he took alarm. I’ll give him a ring, in a few days, when my plans have matured. It’ll take a bit of planning. There’s the rounding up of half a dozen spicy criminals. Nadia Mdevani is number one.
My mind’s whirling with ideas! I can begin to see so many little twists I can give the affair—ironic, comic, naughty. An especially nice one for B. himself. It’s going to be jolly interesting. And a good death knell to set the wild echoes flying!
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