ear and led me into the hall, closing the door behind him. This
reopened presently, wide enough to permit him to thrust out my hat,
overcoat, umbrella, and overshoes, and then closed against me
forever!

I never saw him again. I am bound to say, however, that thereafter
my business increased, I recovered much of my old practice, and a
few of my patients recovered also. I became rich. I had a
brougham and a house in the West End. But I often wondered,
pondering on that wonderful man's penetration and insight, if, in
some lapse of consciousness, I had not really stolen his cigar
case!



GOLLY AND THE CHRISTIAN,

OR

THE MINX AND THE MANXMAN

By H--LL C--NE


BOOK I


Golly Coyle was the only granddaughter of a vague and somewhat
simple clergyman who existed, with an aunt, solely for Golly's
epistolary purposes. There was, of course, intermediate ancestry,--