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Excerpt: ...by millionaires, who have hired me on occasion to freeze out people they didn''t like, but who have persisted in calling. I must confess, though, my dear Hiram, that… More...

Excerpt: ...by millionaires, who have hired me on occasion to freeze out people they didn''t like, but who have persisted in calling. I must confess, though, my dear Hiram, that you are not much warmer yourself-this greeting is hardly what I expected. Well, if you want to make me warmer, I retorted, hotly, just keep on calling me Hiram. How the deuce did you know of that blot on my escutcheon, anyhow? I added, for Hiram was one of the crimes of my family that I had tried to conceal, my parents having fastened the name of Hiram Spencer Carrington upon me at baptism for no reason other than that my rich bachelor uncle, who subsequently failed and became a charge upon me, was so named. I was standing at the door of the church when you were baptized, returned the visitor, and as you were an interesting baby, I have kept an eye on you ever since. Of course I knew that you discarded Hiram as soon as you got old enough to put away childish things, and since the failure of your uncle I have been aware that you desired to be known as Spencer Carrington, but to me you are, always have been, and always will be, Hiram. Well, don''t give it away, I pleaded. I hope to be famous some day, and if the American newspaper paragrapher ever got hold of the fact that once in my life I was Hiram, I''d have to Hiram to let me alone. That''s a bad joke, Hiram, said the visitor, and for that reason I like it, though I don''t laugh. There is no danger of your becoming famous if you stick to humor of that sort. Well, I''d like to know, I put in, my anger returning-I''d like to know who in Brindisi you are, what in Cairo you want, and what in the name of the seventeen hinges of the gates of Singapore you are doing here at this time of night? When you were a baby, Hiram, you had blue eyes, said my visitor. Bonny blue eyes, as the poet says. What of it? I asked. This, replied my visitor. If you have them now, you can very easily see what I am doing here. I am... John Kendrick Bangs, Books, Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Water Ghost And Others Books>Science Fiction and Fantasy, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153725361

Excerpt: ...by millionaires, who have hired me on occasion to freeze out people they didn''t like, but who have persisted in calling. I must confess, though, my dear Hiram, that… More...

Excerpt: ...by millionaires, who have hired me on occasion to freeze out people they didn''t like, but who have persisted in calling. I must confess, though, my dear Hiram, that you are not much warmer yourself-this greeting is hardly what I expected. Well, if you want to make me warmer, I retorted, hotly, just keep on calling me Hiram. How the deuce did you know of that blot on my escutcheon, anyhow? I added, for Hiram was one of the crimes of my family that I had tried to conceal, my parents having fastened the name of Hiram Spencer Carrington upon me at baptism for no reason other than that my rich bachelor uncle, who subsequently failed and became a charge upon me, was so named. I was standing at the door of the church when you were baptized, returned the visitor, and as you were an interesting baby, I have kept an eye on you ever since. Of course I knew that you discarded Hiram as soon as you got old enough to put away childish things, and since the failure of your uncle I have been aware that you desired to be known as Spencer Carrington, but to me you are, always have been, and always will be, Hiram. Well, don''t give it away, I pleaded. I hope to be famous some day, and if the American newspaper paragrapher ever got hold of the fact that once in my life I was Hiram, I''d have to Hiram to let me alone. That''s a bad joke, Hiram, said the visitor, and for that reason I like it, though I don''t laugh. There is no danger of your becoming famous if you stick to humor of that sort. Well, I''d like to know, I put in, my anger returning-I''d like to know who in Brindisi you are, what in Cairo you want, and what in the name of the seventeen hinges of the gates of Singapore you are doing here at this time of night? When you were a baby, Hiram, you had blue eyes, said my visitor. Bonny blue eyes, as the poet says. What of it? I asked. This, replied my visitor. If you have them now, you can very easily see what I am doing here. I am... John Kendrick Bangs, Books, Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Water Ghost And Others Books>Science Fiction and Fantasy <

ISBN: 9781153725361

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