Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes

chairs, and reproductions of all that was most uplifting in graphic art. It was the domain of the ladies engaged in Departments 30 to 45, and was managed by an elected committee of their number.

Isle of Man, balloting for the use of motor-cars on Sundays, and a gratis book entitled 'Human Nature in Shoppers,' were also prominent. Abov

trary, the sales of the Ladies' Boot and Shoe Department have surpassed the sales of the Children's Ditto by ￡25. Great credit is due to the staff of the L.B. and S.D. B

cessary. Hence he was perfectly at liberty to be wayward and freakish in his activities from time to time. And this happened to be one of his wayward and freakish mornings. There were, however, few young women in the common room to behold his aberration, for the hour was within two minutes of nine, and at nine o'clock the latest of the legionaries was supposed to b

effect of a sleepless and highly unusual night. That Ravengar was absolutely sincere in his desire to marry Camilla he did not doubt, and he fully shared the frenzied man's determination that Camilla should not marry Francis Tudor. But beyond this Hugo did not go. He certainly did not go so far as to beli

h Camilla. It may be said that he felt cap

ived the idea of, and the excuse for, a visit to the common room, through which every assistant was obliged to pass on her way to the receipt of custom. In the whole history of Hugo's a poster had never before been

ssistant had fled, and Hugo was left alone with the pink

sked casually of the girl, patting the p

hour the whole basement would be aware that Mr. Hugo had

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have me,'

sir; and now I come to think

, and looked at the clock with an apolog

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er door, and, perceiving nobody but the waitress, k

t Tudor had been ignorant of Ravengar's presence in the flat, and that Ravengar had had to 'dispose of' the housekeeper, a horrid suspicion had lurked at the back of his mind, and now this suspicion sprang out upon his hopes of Camilla's

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e had interpreted them in a particular way becaus

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, I've got a pair from the nearest police-station. I shall order our blacksmi

ulate you,

, faultless shopwalkers were giving a final hitch to their lovely collars, and the rank-and-file were preparing to receive cavalry. The vast machine had started, slo

d glimpses of departments that he had not seen for weeks. At length he came to the verdant and delicious

asked sharply, of

sir. A single sprig only. R

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d the salesman, looking at

d; and thought:

green and shady recesses of the palma

o induce Camilla to marry him-him whom, on her own statement, she did not lov