Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris
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"He wants to know, good land!" exclaimed Mrs. Brackett.
"If a man's going to die," said Aladdin, aeat-sixteen, "he wants to know, because he has things that have to be done." "Doctor said you wasn't to talk much," said Mrs. Brackett. "If I've got to die," said Aladdin, abruptly, "I've got to see Margaret." A woman in a blue wrapper, muddy slippers, her gray hair disheveled, hatless, her eyes bright and wild, burst suddenly upon Hannibal St. John where he sat in his library reading in the book called "Hesperides." "Senator St. John," she began rapidly, "Aladdin O'Brien's sick in my house, and the last thing he said was, 'I've got to see Margaret'; and he's dyin' wantin' to see her, and I've come for her, and she's got to come." It was a tribute to St. John's genius that in spite of her incoherent utterance he understood precisely what the woman was driving at. "You say he's dying?" he said. "Doctor's given up hope. He's had a relapse since this mornin', and she's got to come right now if she's to see him at all." |
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