Only a Horse Dealer Volume 2; A Novel (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. 1893 Excerpt: ...looked questioningly into his cousin's face, and retraced his footsteps, wondering what in the world Dick could have to say which was of more interest to him than his recently-made purchases. The two young men walked slowly away, side by side, in the direction of the shrubbery at the back of the stable yard. For several minutes neither of them spoke. Jim was waiting for Dick to begin, and Dick apparently found it a little difficult to do so. "Do you know it is uncommonly queer," he blurted out at last, " but I could have sworn that there was somebody in my room last night." Jim instantly became interested. So the cat was out of the bag at last, and Dick had discovered that there was a mystery. "Who?" he enquired calmly. "I'll be dashed if I know," said Dick, in a perplexed, rather excited tone. "The whole thing is uncommonly queer." "Yes," returned his cousin; "go ahead Dick, I am consumed with curiosity." "Well, I suppose I was a bit overexcited last night, because I could not go to sleep when I went to bed, and you know I generally sleep like a top from the moment I put my head on the pillow to the time I am called in the morning. We were up late, you remember, smoking and talking over the sale. I went to bed about one o'clock, and it must have been nearly half-past two before I had just begun to doze off, iii a half-hearted kind of way. I think I was nearly asleep at last, because it was in a dreamy way that I imagined that the door of my room opened, but by the time footsteps had gone half across my room I was as wide awake as I ever was in my life. It was as dark as pitch, there is no moon just now, you know. I could see nothing, but as I sprang up into a sitting position I dist...