The Mysterious Investment

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Ambrose Pratt. The Mysterious Investment

The Mysterious Investment

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Author of "Three years with Thunderbolt" "The Remittance Man," "The Outlaws of Wedden Range," etc. etc

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII

CHAPTER XXIV

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

THE END

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Ambrose Pratt

Published by Good Press, 2021

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A second later a sweet voice said to me, in low, reproachful tones. "You haven't been near me once to-night!" I looked down into the lovely eyes of Helen Fortescue and thanked God for my stature.

Horace Massey has always to look up to her—in every way—I spiritually alone. He stood about five feet away, holding her cloak and chewing his moustache. Now, if he had been holding someone else's cloak, I daresay I might have acted differently. As it was, I screwed up one side of my face and depressed the other. "It has given me a pain here to keep away," I groaned, and, putting my hands on my shirt front, I bent double. Naturally, when I had recovered my perpendicular, she was half-way down the steps. I had a yarn with the milkman that morning—we reached the street door of my lodgings together. He was an awfully decent fellow; he paid my cabby for me and gave me a glass of milk that had real cream floating on the top. He took it from a special can.

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