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CANOEING Life began to move more briskly for Nan. She was not aware that certain invitations that reached her were due to a few words carefully spoken in safe quarters by Eaton. One of the first lar…
LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENTS From the beginning of his infirmities Farley’s experiments in will-writing had taxed the patience of Thurston, his lawyer. Within two years he had made a dozen wills, and h…
A KINNEY LARK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES “ It’s certainly good to see you again!” Mrs. Kinney exclaimed as Nan met her by arrangement at a confectioner’s. “How much time are you going to give me?” “Oh, I …
BILLS PAYABLE At six o’clock every morning Mr. Jeremiah Amidon’s alarm-clock sent him trotting down the hall of his boarding-house to the bathroom for an immersion in cold water. When he had careful…
FATE AND BILLY COPELAND When Nan left Copeland the night of the Kinney party she promised to call him the next day. As telephoning from home was hazardous, she made an excuse for going downtown and …
AN ABRUPT ENDING Nan sang as she dressed the next morning. The gods had ordained that she shouldn’t marry Billy, and after her uncertainties on that point she was relieved to find that the higher po…
SHADOWS Nan lay on her bed, fully dressed, on the evening of the day of the funeral, listening to the sounds of the street with an uncomfortable sense of strangeness and isolation. The faint tinkle …
NAN AGAINST NAN Was Billy right, after all? The question haunted her insistently. She lighted the lamp by her bed and tried to read, but the words were a confused jumble. She threw down her book imp…
NOT ACCORDING TO LAW Nan was reading the newspaper report of Eaton’s speech over her coffee when at nine o’clock he called her on the telephone. “Your speech sounds fine, though I don’t understand a…
THE COPELAND-FARLEY CELLAR At twelve o’clock on the night of Nan’s prolonged struggle, Jerry, having walked to the station with a traveling man of his acquaintance, paused at the door of Copeland-Fa…
