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HUBERT GRANICE, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece. Three minutes to eight. In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.
As first published in Scribner's Magazine, March 1909 Hubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece. Three minutes to eight. In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.
Even if he did believe me, he'd never let me see it his instinct would be to cover the whole thing up... But in that case if he did believe me he might think it a kindness to get me shut up in an asylum..." Granice began to tremble again. "Good heaven! If he should bring in an expert one of those damned alienists! Ascham and Pettilow can do anything their word always goes.
Even if he did believe me, he'd never let me see it his instinct would be to cover the whole thing up... But in that case if he DID believe me he might think it a kindness to get me shut up in an asylum..." Granice began to tremble again. "Good heaven! If he should bring in an expert one of those damned alienists! Ascham and Pettilow can do anything their word always goes.
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