A Thoughtless Yes

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Helen H. Gardener. A Thoughtless Yes

A Thoughtless Yes

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PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION

AN OPEN LETTER

A SPLENDID JUDGE OF A WOMAN

THE LADY OF THE CLUB

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II

III

UNDER PROTEST

FOR THE PROSECUTION

I

II

III

A RUSTY LINK IN THE CHAIN

THE BOLER HOUSE MYSTERY

THE TIME LOCK OF OUR ANCESTORS

FLORENCE CAMPBELL'S FATE

I

II

III

But I did not get her story the next day, nor the next, nor the next

IV

V

MY PATIENTS STORY

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II

I confess that I expected a scene

III

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Helen H. Gardener

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"The beautiful stupid and the brilliant but plain are all right—regular stage properties, so to speak—but the grandfather! I'll wager if we tossed up for it, and you got heads and I got tails we'd both be wrong.

"There is something actually uncanny in the aged grandparent ingredient in a conundrum like that. Now if it were a young fellow—only the average donkey—why of course the lovely Julia would bear off the palm and leave Midge, as Nora calls her, to pine away. But if it were a level-headed, middle-aged chap like me, brains would take precedence." He waved his hand lightly toward his wife, who parted her lips over a set of little white teeth and a radiant smile burst forth.

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