The Stingy Receiver

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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The girl in her Norse glow and blondness would have been a marked figure anywhere	[Frontispiece]
"Oh, drat you women!" he grinned sheepishly. "Well, go ahead! One—two—three—four—five—six—seven—eight—nine—TEN!"	[9]
By craning his neck around the corner of the piano, he noted with increasing astonishment that the rivulet sprang from the black ferule of an umbrella	[87]
"Excuse me, Miss Kjelland," he said; "but this is not a picnic—it is a clinic"	[99]
As coolly as if she had been appraising a new dog or pussy, Mrs. Tome Gallien narrowed her eyes to both the vision and the announcement	[127]

I

"If I were fifty years old," said the Young Doctor quite bluntly, "and found myself suddenly stripped of practically all my motor powers except my pocketbook and my sense of humor; and was told that I could make one wish——"

"But I am fifty years old," admitted the Sick Woman. "And I do find myself stripped of practically all my motor powers, except my pocketbook and my sense of humor!"