MR. CHAFFERY AT HOME
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ably psychic research was an incentive to trickery. Then he remembered the matter in his relation to Ethel. . . .
"Your stepfather is a little hard to follow," he said at last, sitting on the bed and taking off one boot. "He's dodgy—he's so confoundedly dodgy. One doesn't know where to take hold of him. He's got such a break he's clean bowled me again and again."
He thought for a space, and then removed his boot and sat with it on his knee. "Of course! . . . all that he said was wrong—quite wrong. Right is right and cheating is cheating, whatever you say about it."
"That's what I feel about him," said Ethel at the looking-glass. "That's exactly how it seems to me."
