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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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