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Title: Bought and Paid For
From the Play of George Broadhurst

Author: Arthur Hornblow

Release Date: July 8, 2005 [EBook #16249]
Last updated: January 3, 2009

Language: English

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[Illustration: WITHOUT FURTHER ARGUMENT, HE SEIZED HOLD OF HER. PAGE
234.]

BOUGHT AND
PAID FOR

_A Story of To-day_

From the Play of
GEORGE BROADHURST
by
ARTHUR HORNBLOW

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
SCENES IN THE PLAY

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

_Bought and Paid For_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. 7

II. 21

III. 39

IV. 52

V. 67

VI. 83

VII. 97

VIII. 115

IX. 131

X. 146

XI. 160

XII. 175

XIII. 191

XIV. 202

XV. 216

XVI. 236

XVII. 254

XVIII. 271

XIX. 280

XX. 292

XXI. 312

XXII. 325

CHAPTER I

"How is he now, doctor? Don't--don't tell me there is no hope!"

The wife, a tall, aristocratic looking woman who, despite her advanced
years, her snow-white hair, her eyes now red and swollen from weeping,
and pallid face seamed with careworn lines from constant vigils, still
showed traces of former beauty, scanned the physician fearfully,
trying to read in the expression of his countenance what the friend
and man of science, out of sheer compassion, was doing his utmost to
conceal. He had just emerged from the sick chamber; the trained nurse,
methodical and quick, and singularly attractive looking in her neat