title: Montauk Tango: From The Ashes of 9/11 To The Frying Pan Of A Hampton's Restaurant
author:  Lewis Gross 
description: Lewis Gross is a holistic dentist in New York City. Like the striped bass, he migrates seasonally between the coasts of Tribeca and Montauk. He is working on a second book, The Amalgamist - the Da Vinci Code of Dentistry, a medical mystery exposing the mercury cover-up in dentistry.
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  # The Dust-Cloud
  
  
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  The big French windows were open on to the lawn, and, dinner being
  
  
  over, two or three of the party who were staying for the week at the
  
  
  end of August with the Combe-Martins had strolled out on to the
  
  
  terrace to look at the sea, over which the moon, large and low, was
  
  
  just rising and tracing a path of pale gold from horizon to shore,
  
  
  while others, less lunar of inclination, had gone in search of bridge
  
  
  or billiards. Coffee had come round immediately after dessert, and the
  
  
  end of dinner, according to the delectable custom of the house, was as
  
  
  informal as the end of breakfast.
  
  
  Every one, that is to say, remained or went away, smoked, drank
  
  
  port or abstained, according to his personal tastes. Thus, on this
  
  
  particular evening it so happened that Harry Combe-Martin and I were
  