Zula

BY H. ESSELSTYN LINDLEY
BROADWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY 835 BROADWAY : : NEW YORK
Copyright, 1905 by H. ESSELSTYN LINDLEY
All Rights Reserved

H. Esselstyn Lindley.
TO THE HON. S. W. BURROUGHS AND GEO. W. MOORE OF DETROIT, MICH. AND TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND MR. W. A. ESSELSTYN OF NEW YORK IS THIS VOLUME MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR

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“Oh, you little wretch! What are you about? You dreadfully sinful little creature. Police, police!”
The speaker, a richly dressed woman, was just entering the spacious dining-room, as she caught sight of a dusky little form in the act of taking a set of silver spoons from the heavy gold-lined holder. The child raised a pair of coal-black eyes to the lady’s face as she turned to pass out of the dining-room door, which had been left open to let in the cool June breeze; but as she was about to cross the threshold she was seized by the strong hands of a policeman, who had answered Mrs. Wilmer’s call, and the silver was scattered in a dozen different directions.