A Top-Floor Idyl
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Van Schaick George. A Top-Floor Idyl
CHAPTER I. THE NIGHT ALARM
CHAPTER II. FRIEDA THE ANGEL
CHAPTER III. I WATCH AN INFANT
CHAPTER IV. THE BOLT
CHAPTER V. GORDON HELPS
CHAPTER VI. A BIT OF SUNSHINE
CHAPTER VII. THE OTHER WOMAN
CHAPTER VIII. WE TAKE AN EXCURSION
CHAPTER IX. I HEAR RUMORS ABOUT GORDON
CHAPTER X. THE WORK LOST
CHAPTER XI. GORDON VACILLATES
CHAPTER XII. GORDON BECOMES ENGAGED
CHAPTER XIII. DR. PORTER GOES TO WORK
CHAPTER XIV. I BEGIN TO PLOT
CHAPTER XV. THE LIGHTNING STROKE
CHAPTER XVI. FRANCES READS MY BOOK
CHAPTER XVII. MISS VAN ROSSUM CALLS
CHAPTER XVIII. DIANA AMONG MORTALS
CHAPTER XIX. FRANCES GOES TO THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER XX. RICHETTI IS PLEASED
CHAPTER XXI. THE CONCERT
CHAPTER XXII. GORDON RETURNS
CHAPTER XXIII. THE REPAIR OF A BROKEN STRAND
CHAPTER XXIV "THE MOTHER AND CHILD"
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"Please help me!" cried the woman hoarsely. "My God! What shall I do?"
It was, as I had surmised, the Murillo-faced occupant of the room on the other side of the landing. In my dismay the desperate thought came to me that a lonely bachelor was the last individual she should have sought aid from. But her look of haggardness, the teeth pressed into her lips, the clenched hands, the chin carried forward in an expression of agonized supplication rebuked my egotism.
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The lamp was alight and the steam coming, when the doctor came out, looking rather spectral in a white gown.
"Thank goodness!" I exclaimed, dropping some pulverized bean on the floor. "So it is all over!"
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