R. Holmes & Company by John Kendrick Bangs

Author:John Kendrick Bangs [Bangs, John Kendrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Published: 1906-09-16T05:00:00+00:00

R. Holmes & Co.

ing before the evening is over. I've had an anxious caller here five times already to-day. I've been standing in the barber-shop opposite getting a line on him. His card name is Grouch, his real name is—

Here Raffles Holmes leaned for ward and whispered in my ear a name of such eminent respectability that I fairly gasped.

" You don't mean the Mr. -

" Nobody else, "said Raffles Holmes. " Only he don't know I know who he is. The third time Grouch called I trailed him to Blank's house, and then recognized him as Blank him self."

"And what does he want with you?" I asked.

"That remains to be seen," said Raffles Holmes. "All I know is that next Tuesday he will be required to turn over $100,000 unregistered bonds to a young man about to come of age, for whom he has been a trustee." 116

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