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Title: Ambrotox and Limping Dick

Author: Oliver Fleming

Release Date: December 16, 2006 [EBook #20119]

Language: English

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AMBROTOX

AND

LIMPING DICK

BY OLIVER FLEMING

1920

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I.--THE VISITOR'S SHADOW

II.--THE HEN WITH ONE CHICK

III.--"HUMMIN' BIRD'S WESKIT"

IV.--COFFEE

V.--AMBROTOX

VI.--AMARYLLIS

VII.--PERFUME

VIII.--THE SWINE THAT STANK

IX.--THE POLITICAL COVES

X.--THE GREEN FROCK

XI.--THE WINDOW

XII.--THE STAIRS

XIII.--THE KNIFE-THROWER

XIV.--PENNY PANSY

XV.--THE LIZARD

XVI.--"THE GOAT IN BOOTS"

XVII.--THE UNICORN

XVIII.--THE SERANG

XIX.--SAPPHIRE AND EMERALD

XX.--A ROPE OR SOMETHING

XXI.--THE BAAG-NOUK

XXII.--LORD LABRADOR

XXIII.--FALLING OUT

XXIV.--KUK-KUK-KUK-KATIE

XXV.--WAITERS

XXVI.--PRISONER AND ESCORT

XXVII.--AN INTERIM REPORT

AMBROTOX AND LIMPING DICK.

CHAPTER I.

THE VISITOR'S SHADOW.

Randal Bellamy's country house was a place of pleasant breakfasts. From
the dining room the outlook was delightful; grass, flowers and sunshine,
with the host's easy charm, made it almost as easy for Theophilus
Caldegard to drink his tea fresh, as for his daughter Amaryllis not to
keep her host, Sir Randal, waiting for his coffee.

This morning, while she waited for the two men, the girl, remembering
that this was the eighteenth of June, was surprised by the ease with
which the five weeks of her stay had slipped by; and she wondered,
without anxiety, at what point the guest merges into the inmate.

"I can't live here for ever," she thought;