A Millionaire of Yesterday by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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"The picture - just for a moment. I'd like to have one look at her!" Trent drew it out from his pocket - awkwardly - and with a little shame at the care which had prompted him to wrap it so tenderly in the oilskin sheet. Monty shaded his face with his hands, and the picture stole up to his lips. Trent stood a little apart and hated himself for this last piece of inhumanity. He pretended to be listening for the stealthy approach of their enemies. In reality he was struggling with the feeling which prompted him to leave this picture with the dying man. "I suppose you'd best have it," he said sullenly at last. But Monty shook his head feebly and held out the picture. Trent took it with an odd sense of shame which puzzled him. He was not often subject to anything of the sort. "It belongs to you, Trent. I lost it on the square, and it's the only social law I've never broken - to pay my gambling debts. There's one word more!" "Yes." "It's about that clause in our agreement. I never thought it was quite fair, you know, Trent!" "Which clause?" |
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