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` Have a seat . ' Then he scowled down the companionway and called : ` Elizabeth , stop that infernal machine , will you ? ' `` The music was turned off , and pretty soon Miss Morganstein came up the stairs . She was stunning , in a white sailor suit with red fixings , eyes black as midnight ; piles of raven hair . But as soon as he had introduced us , and she had settled his pillows to suit him -- he was lying in one of those invalid chairs -- he sent her off to mix a julep or something . Then he said he presumed we were going to have a fine cut of the _ Aquila _ in the Sunday paper , if I was the reporter who made that exposure at the time of the accident to his car . I told him yes , I was Daniels , representing the _ Press _ , and had the good fortune to be in Snoqualmie Pass that day .