The Under Dog Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...Your Ladyship, ' says His Lordship. " 'Good-night, Sir Henry, ' she called back, her head out of the winder, and off I driv. "I turned into the Square, found the white house wid the geraniums, helps her out of me cab and steadied her up the steps, pulled the key out, and was just goin' to put it in the lock when she fell up agin the door and open it went. The gas was turned low in the hall, so that she wouldn't know me if she looked at me. "I found the parlor, but the lights were out; so widout lookin' for the sofa--I was afraid some-body'd come and catch me--I slid her into a rockin'-chair, laid the key on the hall-table, shut the door softlike, rang the bell as if there was a fire next door, jumped on me box, and driv off. "The next mornin' I went to see His Lordship. " 'Did. ye land her all right, Fin?' " 'I did, sor, ' I says. " 'Had ye any trouble wid the key?' " 'No, sor, ' I says, 'the door was open.' " 'That's queer, ' he says; 'maybe her husband came in earlier and forgot to shut it. And ye put her on the sofa ' " 'No, sor, in a big chair.' " 'In the parlor on the right?' " 'No, sor, in a little room on the left/--down one step ' "He stopped and looked at me. " 'Ye're sure ye put her in the fust white house?' " 'I am, sor.' " 'Wid geraniums in the winder?' " 'Yes, sor.' " 'Eed f he says. " 'No, white, ' I says. " 'On the north side of the Square?' " 'No, ' I says, 'on the south.' " 'My God Fin, ' he says, 'ye left her in the wrong house '" It was I who shook the boat this time. "Oh, ye needn't laugh, sor; it was no laughin' matter. I got me five bob, but I lost His Lordship's custom, and I didn't dare go near Cadogan Square for a month." These disclosures opened up a new and wider horizon. Heretofore I had associated Fin with simple country...