Go! I give you
your liberty. I shall not summon the three policemen who wait in
the adjoining room--but out of my sight forever!"
As I stood once more dazed and petrified, he took me firmly by the
ear and led me into the hall, closing the door behind him. This
reopened presently, wide enough to permit him to thrust out my hat,
overcoat, umbrella, and overshoes, and then closed against me
forever!
I never saw him again. I am bound to say, however, that thereafter
my business increased, I recovered much of my old practice, and a
few of my patients recovered also. I became rich. I had a
brougham and a house in the West End. But I often wondered,
pondering on that wonderful man's penetration and insight, if, in
some lapse of consciousness, I had not really stolen his cigar
case!
GOLLY AND THE CHRISTIAN,
OR
THE MINX AND THE MANXMAN
By H--LL C--NE
BOOK I
Golly Coyle was the only granddaughter of a vague and somewhat
simple clergyman who existed, with an aunt, solely for Golly's
epistolary purposes. There was, of course, intermediate ancestry,--
notably a dead mother who was French, and therefore responsible
for any later naughtiness in Golly,--but they have no purpose here.
They lived in the Isle of Man. Golly knew a good deal of Man, for
even at the age of twelve she was in love with John Gale--only son
of Lord Gale, who was connected with the Tempests.
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