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Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...in? and I said no: they said he was too stingy. And I thought some of the men in the outside office would fall off their chairs; but nobody looked round. What did he say to that? asked the minister, smiling. He looked awful black, and growled out, ''They do, eh? Say I''m an old skinflint. I reckon! Who said that?'' And I was awful scairt. for then I knowed he was the Old Mogul. And I says, slowly, ''Why, everybody says so.'' He kind o'' sunk down in his chair for a minute, and then be grabbed up his pen and scratched away in a little book as if he was going to carve the paper up. Then he called out, ''Barret, look in the directory and find where the Rev. Mr. Parker lives, and take this child to him.'' And he tore off the letter as if he was tearing a piece of cloth, and give it to me and says, ''Take that to Mr. Parker, and if what you say is true, all right; but if you''ve been collecting money under false premises, I''ll have you sent to the house of c''rection.'' As she finished her story Mary Lizzie produced the letter, much crumpled and soiled from contact with her tear-dampened handkerchief. Mr. Parker glanced at it, and then looked up in amazement. Don''t you know what a check is? he asked. Yes. I''ve checked packages when I was a cash at the Bee Hive. But that isn''t a check. Mary, Colonel Bair has put into my hands as a trustee enough money to send Mr. Wicks and the whole family to the country for the whole summer, and something more besides! Two weeks later it was Miss Ann Royal''s turn to draw her breath with a quick gasp of wonder over a letter that came to her, just-as Janet Wicks had done over the same sort of letter that came to her. The minister''s wife had written it,...
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