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Cecil William Mercer. And Berry Came Too
And Berry Came Too
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. HOW THE KNAVE SET OUT FOR COCK FEATHERS, AND BERRY MADE AN ACQUAINTANCE HE DID NOT DESIRE
CHAPTER II. HOW BERRY PERCEIVED THE OBVIOUS, AND DAPHNE AND I PUT SPOKES IN EACH OTHER’S WHEELS
CHAPTER III. HOW BERRY PROPHESIED EVIL, AND THE KNAVE PURGED HIS CONTEMPT
CHAPTER IV. HOW DAPHNE WAS GIVEN A PRESENT, AND JONAH TOOK OFF HIS COAT
CHAPTER V. HOW PERDITA BOUGHT A STAIRCASE, AND BERRY PUT ON RAIMENT THAT WAS NOT HIS
CHAPTER VI. HOW BERRY MET HIS MATCH, AND A MULE LAY DOWN WITH THE KNAVE
CHAPTER VII. HOW JILL ENJOYED HERSELF, AND LEN AND WINNIE WERE MADE TO WASTE VALUABLE TIME
CHAPTER VIII. HOW PERDITA LEFT WHITE LADIES, AND BERRY SAT DOWN WITH A LADY WHO KNEW NO LAW
THE END
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Cecil William Mercer
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The burden of the hour that followed was of a kind which I should be glad to forget. My object was, of course, to return by the way I had come: but to recognize something which you have never seen requires, I suppose, an instinct with which I am not endowed. Thanks to the finger-posts, I soon found out where I was, and I knew to within five miles where Berry and I had parted and the Rolls had been commandeered. But I was without a map, and so surely as some road seemed familiar it led me away from the district for which I believed I should make. I was not so much lost as bewildered, and I turned and backed and wandered until I was sick of life. What was worst of all, I knew nothing. It might not have been the Knave that Berry had seen. If it was, I presumed he had caught him. The thought that he had failed where I might well have succeeded was scarcely bearable.
For eighty blazing minutes I sought my brother-in-law. Then at last I threw in my hand and drove all out for Dewdrop, to keep my appointment with Jonah and give him my wretched news. I need hardly say that I ought to have started before: but I know no fascination like that of the hope forlorn. The glaring fact remains that I entered the Granbys’ lodge-gates exactly half an hour late for the call which I was to have taken at twelve o’clock.
