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Title: Parrot & Co.

Author: Harold MacGrath

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PARROT & CO.

by

HAROLD MacGRATH

Author of
"The Best Man," "The Carpet from Bagdad," "The Place of Honeymoons"

With Four Illustrations in Color

By Andre Castaigne

[Frontispiece: The Game of Gossip.]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers -------- New York
Copyright 1913
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I EAST IS EAST
II A MAN WITH A PAST
III THE WEAK LINK
IV TWO DAYS OF PARADISE
V BACK TO LIFE
VI IN THE NEXT ROOM
VII CONFIDENCES
VIII A WOMAN'S REASON
IX TWO SHORT WEEKS
X THE CUT DIRECT
XI THE BLUE FEATHER
XII THE GAME OF GOSSIP
XIII AFTER TEN YEARS
XIV ACCORDING TO THE RULES
XV A BIT OF A LARK
XVI WHO IS PAUL ELLISON?
XVII THE ANSWERING CABLE
XVIII THE BATTLE
XIX TWO LETTERS
XX THE TWO BROTHERS
XXI HE THAT WAS DEAD

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Game of Gossip . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

A Bit of a Lark

The Battle

He That Was Dead

TO

J. J. CURTIS

PARROT & CO.

I

EAST IS EAST

It began somewhere in the middle of the world, between London which is
the beginning and New York which is the end, where all things are east
of the one and west of the other. To be precise, a forlorn landing on
the west bank of the muddy turbulent Irrawaddy, remembered by man only
so often as it was necessary for the flotilla boat to call for paddy, a
visiting commissioner anxious to get away, or a family homeward-bound.
Somewhere in