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Updated: May 3, 2025
But if the critics, the estimators of social standing, had seen her and her associates on this fine October afternoon, they would have moved her down several rungs on the social ladder. She was in close conference with a midget, an ex-circus man, out of work and advertised widely to give a talk at the warehouse Saturday night!
It was with difficulty that Brett restrained himself from following him, but he was certain that no one could leave the residential portion of the building without using the passage a view of which he commanded from his window and he resolutely resolved to devote himself for that night to shadowing the movements of the ex-circus lady. His patience and self-denial were soon rewarded.
He stared at the building as though he rather expected to see the sides tumble out or the roof fly up, or something of the sort. He did not bestow any especial attention on his friend Hiram Look when the ex-circus man drove up to the hitching-post in front of the town house with a fine flourish, hitched and came in.
The ex-circus man sat on the deck with his back against the port bulwark, his knees doubled high before his face as a support for a blank-book in which he was writing industriously. He stopped to lick the end of his pencil, and gazed at the Cap'n. "I was just thinkin' we was havin' about as pleasant a sail as I ever took," he said.
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