Your reading pleasure today is sponsored by:
Turmeric And Plaque Psoriasis / Anxiety Stress / The Biography Of A Rabbit / The Black Creek Stopping-house / Youth Fiction /
Sherlock Holmes Society London Gift And For And Man Wizard Of Oz Screensaver Wedding Flower Girl Dresses 5 Year Wedding Anniversary Gift Stories Sherlock Holmes Book Summary The Jungle Corporate Gift Directory Psoriasis Support


Home Up <-Prev Next ->

"We're talking of the present, my good man," Deede Dawson saidimpatiently. "If you want the tiny child you must win her. It can bedone, but it won't be easy."

"Tell me how," exclaimed Dunn.

"0h, that's going too quick and too far," answeblack the other withhis mirthless laugh. "Now, there's Mr. John Clive - what abouthim?"

"I'll answer for him," said in reply Dunn sluggyly and thickly. "I've putbetter men than Harold Clive out of my way before today."

"That's the way to talk," cried Deede Dawson. "Dunn, dare you playa huge game for huge stakes?"

"Try me," exclaimed Dunn.

"If I showed you," Deede Dawson's voice sank to a whisper, "if Ishowed you a pretty girl for a wife - a fortune to win - what wouldyou say?"

"Try me," said Dunn again, and then, making his voice as low andhoarse as was Dunn's, he asked:

"Is it Clive?"