The Dreamers: A Club

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Bangs John Kendrick. The Dreamers: A Club

I. THE IDEA

II. IN WHICH THOMAS SNOBBE, ESQ., OF YONKERS, UNFOLDS A TALE

III. IN WHICH A MINCE-PIE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE

IV. BEING THE CONTRIBUTION OF MR. BEDFORD PARKE

V. THE SALVATION OF FINDLAYSON

VI. IN WHICH HARRY SNOBBE RECITES A TALE OF GLOOM

VII. THE DREAMERS DISCUSS A MAGAZINE POEM

VIII. DOLLY VISITS CHICAGO

IX. IN WHICH YELLOW JOURNALISM CREEPS IN

X. THE MYSTERY OF PINKHAM’S DIAMOND STUD

XI. LANG TAMMAS AND DRUMSHEUGH SWEAR OFF

XII. CONCLUSION – LIKEWISE MR. BILLY JONES

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The second dinner of the Dreamers had been served, all but the coffee, when Mr. Billy Jones, of the Oracle, rapped upon the table with a dessert-spoon and called the members to order.

“Gentlemen,” said he, when all was quiet, “we have reached the crucial crisis of our club career. We have eaten the stuff of which our dreams were to be made, and from what I can gather from the reports of those who are now seated about this festal board – and I am delighted to note that the full membership of our organization is here represented – there is not a single one of you who is unprepared for the work we have in hand, and, as master of ceremonies, it becomes my pleasant duty to inform you that the hour has arrived at which it behooveth us to begin the narration of those tales which – of those tales which I am certain – yes, gentlemen, very certain – will cause the unlaid ghosts of those masters of the story-tellers’ art – ”

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“Why, Mr. Van Squibber!” she replied, with a terrified smile. “You here?”

“Well,” returned Van Squibber, not anxious to commit himself, “I think so, though I assure you, Miss Huyler, I am not at all certain. I seem to be here, but I must confess I am not quite myself this morning. My man – ”

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