Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947 / 2008-06-28 00:00:00
EBOOK THE MOTORMANIACS ***
THE MOTORMANIACS
BY LLOYD OSBOURNE
CONTENTS:
THE MOTORMANIACS
THE GREAT BUBBLE SYNDICATE
COAL OIL JOHNNY
JONES
THE MOTORMANIACS
THE MOTORMANIACS
"It's jolly to get you off by yourself," I said as we wandered
away from the rest of the party.
"Then you are not afraid of an engaged girl," she observed
"Everybody else seems to be."
"I am made of sterner stuff," I said. "Besides, I am dying to
know all about it."
"All about what?"
"What you found to like in Gerard Malcolm, and what Gerard
Malcolm found to like in you, and what he said and what you said
and what the Englishman said, and how it all happened generally."
"What you want to know would fill a book."
"You speak as if you mean it to be a sealed one."
"I don't see exactly what claim you have to be a reader."
"Well, I was the first person to love you," I said. "Surely that
ought to count for something. It didn't last long, I know, but
it was a wild business while it did. When I discovered you were
just out for scalps--"
"And when I discovered you were the most conceited, monopolizing,
jealous, troublesome and exacting man that ever lived, and that I
was expected to play kitten while you did demon child--"
"Oh, of course, it was a mistake," I said quickly.
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