. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ards a gentle, unseenfigure, and her cry: O father—father! Why had she left him! The littletown had been large enough for thesetwo men—these two great men, as shecalled them to herself in a passion ofbursting pride; and she thought of herown withered, self-seeking years, andcovered her face. Dick had not mentioned his bookto her! She remembered what the girl hadsaid, It makes you want to gohome! and she stood up and facedthe quivering image in the glass. Iwill go home, she said, and trimhats! Then she covered her face had not again asked her
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ards a gentle, unseenfigure, and her cry: O father—father! Why had she left him! The littletown had been large enough for thesetwo men—these two great men, as shecalled them to herself in a passion ofbursting pride; and she thought of herown withered, self-seeking years, andcovered her face. Dick had not mentioned his bookto her! She remembered what the girl hadsaid, It makes you want to gohome! and she stood up and facedthe quivering image in the glass. Iwill go home, she said, and trimhats! Then she covered her face had not again asked her to mar-ry him. In that moment Cordelia believedherself to have reached the acme ofsuffering. She was to learn better. A knock at the door drew her upto an instinctive pretence of the oldlofty composure. The boy who broughtin the yellow envelope was the lastperson who ever beheld quite that oldCordelia. Before his very eyes sheshuddered and shrank into another,under the blow of the message: Your father died this morning atsix The Hat Trick By Churchill Williams in Scribners Magazine My name is George Cuthbert, and Iam on the pay-roll of a large retailjewelry firm, though you would neverguess that unless you had a daughtermarried, or celebrated your silverwedding, or something of that then, when I presented myselfat your house in frock coat or even-ing clothes you probably would payme the compliment of momentarilydoubting my introduction. For I donot look my part, and whatever auc-cess I have achieved is due partly tothe offices of a good tailor, partly toan inheritance of gentle blood someway back in the family of which Iam rather proud. Yet, for all that,I am a detective and my particularbusiness it is to watch over weddingpresents and the like while they areon display in your house. A near detective, some of thefacetious among my profession dubme, in derisive reference to the ap-parently passive nature of my dutiesand to the inexpertness as criminalsof
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