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"My cousin is out," said Miss Connell. "Doctor Sperry has taken her for a ride. She will be back very soon." I shook a cat from my trouser leg, and my wife made an unimportant remark. "I may as well tell you, I disapprove of what Alice is doing," said Miss Connell. "She doesn't have to. I've offered her a good home. She was brought up a Presbyterian.
It had been our policy to take up different subjects for these neighborhood dinners. Sperry was a reformer in his way, and on his nights we generally took up civic questions. He was particularly interested in the responsibility of the state to the sick poor. My wife and I had "political" evenings. Not really politics, except in their relation to life.
For as soon as Sperry came home into England and had married a wife, by which his inclinations were chained, though he had no ability to support her, and falling into very great necessities, he either tempted others or associated himself with certain loose and abandoned young men, for as he himself constantly declared, he was not led into evil practices by the persuasions of any.
Sperry, wife of the Professor of palaeontology, who had come to talk over with her the next winter's programme for the Higher Thought Club. They debated the question for an hour, and when Mrs.
All the furniture is scattered through the house." "She must mean the furniture of this room," Mrs. Dane whispered. The remainder of the sitting was chaotic. The secretary's notes consist of unrelated words and often childish verses. On going over the notes the next day, when the stenographic record had been copied on a typewriter, Sperry and I found that one word recurred frequently.
He poured out some and I drank it, being careful to rinse the glass afterward. "Well," said Sperry, when he had lighted a cigar. "So you want to know where we are." "I would like to save something out of the wreck." "That's easy. Horace, you should be a heart specialist, and I should have taken the law. It's as plain as the alphabet." He took his notes of the sittings from his pocket.
He wakened again at the first glimmer of dawn dressed and went out in the crisp air for a tramp, still thinking of his dream and the memory of her dear lips against his cheek. The day at last arrived when Sperry must return to New York. His mail during the last few days compelled his immediate presence.
I told the whole story of the visit Sperry and I had made the night Arthur Wells was shot, and of what we discovered; of the clerk at the pharmacy and his statement, and even of the whiskey and its unfortunate effect at which, I regret to say, she was vastly amused; and, last of all, of my experience the previous night in the deserted house. She was very serious when I finished.
Twing had better COME EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AND BEGIN." "Begin?" gasped Mr. Sperry in breathless astonishment. "Certainly," said Mrs. Martin in timid explanation. "If he is new to the work the sooner the better." Mr. Sperry could only gaze blankly at his brother official. Had they heard aright?
Just outside the dressing-room door the boards for an area of two square feet or more beneath the carpet had been scraped and scrubbed. With the lifting of the carpet came, too, a strong odor, as of ammonia. But the stain of blood had absolutely disappeared. Sperry, kneeling on the floor with the candle held close, examined the wood.
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