McAllister and His Double

was all part of a carefully adjusted and as rigorously followed regimen, for McAllister was a thorough believer in exercise (provided it was moderate), and took it regularly, averring t

t a high degree of solicitude for all this procedure, since he was a personal discovery of McAllister's, and owed his present exalted position entirely to the clubman's interest, for the latter had found him at Coney Island earning his daily b

fided to his friend Wainwright. "Sometimes I feel as if my life had been wasted!" The upshot of th

oor leading into the dressing-rooms and announced that a party wanted to speak to him on the 'phone, the Lady so

ter than to irritate her when she was in one of her tantrums. Still, he couldn't imagine what she wanted with him at that hour of the morning. She'd been placid enough the even

t speak with her myself, don'cher know, and find out w

must be up-that was certain. He could imagine her in her wrapper and curl-papers holding converse with Tim over the wire. The language of his protégé might well assist in the process for which the curl-papers were required. There was nobody in the world, in McAllister's opinion, so queer as his aunt, except his aunt's husband. The latter was a stout, beefy nobleman of sixty-five, with a walrus-like countenance, an implicit faith in the perfection of British institutions, and about enough intelligence to d

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to the hotel as fast as you can. She's

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cautiously and

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