THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
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and made his way to the Bards' Club, where he spent the rest of the afternoon drinking Absalom cocktails. So profound was his depression that not until he had swallowed fifteen of these potions could he summon up sufficient energy to go home.
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These had been the last words of Mr. Indermaur to Dunkle: "I shall send out our first paragraph this afternoon."
Dunkle, therefore, knew that in all probability the announcement that he had written a novel, which Messrs. Capper and Ironsides were to produce, would be in several of the next morning's journals.
He had not consumed too many cocktails to understand that Chloë must on no account be left to make her own discovery of this matter. To allow the shock
