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Updated: July 2, 2025
"Yes, I do; the special correspondent for the Herald-Post. Is that sufficient inducement?" Miss Lady looked at him rather strangely. "I'll come," she said after a moment's hesitation. They did not return to the parlor but to the music-room, a large room on the opposite side of the hall, which Mrs.
My brother-in-law couldn't take her, so he sent me." "But you stayed longer than she did." "Yes, I played around on the Riviera for a while." "And you have been home, how long?" "Three months. Honestly, I meant to buckle down to something right off, but Cropsie Decker got this offer to go to the Orient for the Herald-Post, and asked me to go along.
"The fee be damned," he drawled. Donald Morley packed his few belongings and went on his small mission for the Herald-Post with a determination worthy of a larger cause.
There's a great deal of work on this case, of a very annoying nature. We might try to come under the amount stipulated, and in a pinch of course you could sell the real estate." "No," said Donald, "I shall not sell it. And I've got to know to-day what your terms will be. I've got work with the Herald-Post as temporary correspondent at the Capitol.
But to make the usual expenditure of a day extend over a week requires forethought and judgment, neither of which qualities Donald possessed. He had counted on augmenting the small sum received from the Herald-Post by writing feature articles for other papers, but his efforts had met with small success. In vain he arranged his article after the exact plan laid down by Cropsie Decker.
Of course in the run-down state he was in, it put him out of business, and by the time he got back to Raffles', he didn't know who he was, nor where he was. I stayed with him until the Herald-Post sent for me to come home. Maybe you don't think I hated to leave the old chap, in that God-forsaken country, lying flat on his back, staring at the ceiling, with all his illusions smashed."
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