Afloat in a Great City a Story of Strange Incidents
Afloat in a Great City a Story of Strange Incidents
Munsey Frank Andrew
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" All this deception was to avoid meeting the eyes of this lady. What should he say to her ? It seemed to him that she was reading his very thoughts, and now saw him in his true character. " Don't keep me in this suspense, Anthony, but AFLOAT IN A GREAT CITY. 143 tell me what has happened, " said the lady, alarmed and yet puzzled at the sudden change that had come over him as she entered the room. ' ' The bottom has tumbled out of one of my investments, " said he falsely. This excuse he invente...d while pretending to be engaged with the telephone. " Oh, I'm so sorry, " said she feelingly. "Will you lose heavily ? ' ' "A good stroke, " said Boggs to himself, and he smiled at his own evil cunning. "I'm safe now from her suspicion, so I'll just cut this con- versation short. " Accordingly he shouted : "Expect me in half an hour. I'll start at once. Good by ; " and he turned and faced the lady. She was a woman who would everywhere attract attention by her perfect figure and fine intellectual face, with its kindly, sympathetic expression.
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