After a Shadow and Other Stories

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Arthur Timothy Shay. After a Shadow and Other Stories

I. AFTER A SHADOW

II. IN THE WAY OF TEMPTATION

III. ANDY LOVELL

IV. A MYSTERY EXPLAINED

V. WHAT CAN I DO?

VI. ON GUARD

VII. A VISIT WITH THE DOCTOR

VIII. HADN'T TIME FOR TROUBLE

IX. A GOOD NAME

X. LITTLE LIZZIE

XI. ALICE AND THE PIGEON

XII. DRESSED FOR A PARTY

XIII. COFFEE vs. BRANDY

XIV. AMY'S QUESTION

XV. AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE

XVI. WHICH WAS MOST THE LADY?

XVII. OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES

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MARTIN GREEN was a young man of good habits and a good conceit of himself. He had listened, often and again, with as much patience as he could assume, to warning and suggestion touching the dangers that beset the feet of those who go out into this wicked world, and become subject to its legion of temptations. All these warnings and suggestions he considered as so many words wasted when offered to himself.

"I'm in no danger," he would sometimes answer to relative or friend, who ventured a remonstrance against certain associations, or cautioned him about visiting certain places.

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And the two men passed their respective ways.

On Mr. Phillips's return to his store, Martin rendered his account of collections, and, to the surprise of his employer, omitted the one in regard to which he had just been notified.

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