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Title: Murder in Any Degree
Author: Owen Johnson
Release Date: June 22, 2004 [EBook #12686]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "I'll come here, I'll be your model, I'll sit for you by
the hour"]
MURDER IN ANY DEGREE: ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK: A COMEDY FOR WIVES:
THE LIE: EVEN THREES: A MAN OF NO IMAGINATION: LARRY MOORE:
MY WIFE'S WEDDING PRESENTS: THE SURPRISES OF THE LOTTERY
BY OWEN JOHNSON Author of "Stover at Yale," "The Varmint," etc., etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY F.R. GRUGER AND LEON GUIPON
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1913
1907, 1912, 1913, THE CENTURY CO.
1911, THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1911, THE NATIONAL POST CO.
1912, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
1908, THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
1906, ASSOCIATED SUNDAY MAGAZINES, INCORPORATED
1910, THE PEARSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
_Published, August, 1913_
CONTENTS
MURDER IN ANY DEGREE
ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK
A COMEDY FOR WIVES
THE LIE
EVEN THREES
A MAN OF NO IMAGINATION
LARRY MOORE
MY WIFE'S WEDDING PRESENTS
THE SURPRISES OF THE LOTTERY
ILLUSTRATIONS
"I'll come here, I'll be your model, I'll sit for you by the hour"
From his tone the group perceived that the hazards had brought to him
some abrupt coincidence
Rantoul, ... decorating his ankles with lavender and black
Our Lady of the Sparrows
"Oh, tell me, little ball, is it ta-ta or good-by?"
Wild-eyed and hilarious they descended on the clubhouse with the
miraculous news
A committee carefully examined the books of the club
"You gave him--the tickets! The Lottery Tickets!"
MURDER IN ANY DEGREE
I
One Sunday in March they had been marooned at the club, Steingall the
painter and Quinny the illustrator, and, having lunched late, had bored
themselves separately to their limits over the periodicals until,
preferring to bore each other, they had gravitated together in easy
arm-chairs before the big Re
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