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Jerry (Hardcover)
Jean Webster
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It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made
the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have
been more than willing to forego the pleasure.
Our firm rarely dealt with criminal cases, but the Patterson
family were long standing clients, and they naturally turned to us
when the trouble came. Ordinarily, so important a matter would have
been put in the hands of one of the older men, but it happened that
I was the one who had drawn up the will for Patterson Senior the
night before his suicide, therefore the brunt of the work devolved
upon me. The most unpleasant part of the whole affair was the
notoriety. Could we have kept it from the papers, it would not have
been so bad, but that was a physical impossibility; Terry Patten
was on our track, and within a week he had brought down upon us
every newspaper in New York.
"Paper-weights," observed Patty, sucking an injured thumb, "were
evidently not made for driving in tacks. I wish I had a
hammer."
This remark called forth no response, and Patty peered down from
the top of the step-ladder at her roommate, who was sitting on the
floor dragging sofa-pillows and curtains from a dry-goods box.
"Priscilla," she begged, "you aren't doing anything useful. Go
down and ask Peters for a hammer."
Priscilla rose reluctantly. "I dare say fifty girls have already
been after a hammer."
"Oh, he has a private one in his back pocket. Borrow that. And,
Pris," -- Patty called after her over the transom, -- "just tell
him to send up a man to take that closet door off its hinges."
Patty and her two roommates from last year are back in school.
And they're upset! School administration is trying to break up
their dream team!
"It's a shame!" says Priscilla.
"It's an outrage!" says Conny.
"It's an insult!" says Patty.
"To separate us now after we've been together three years
--"
"And it isn't as though we were "awfully" bad last year. Lots of
girls had more demerits."
"Only our badness was sort of conspicuous," Patty admitted.
"But we were "very" good the last three weeks," reminded
Conny.
Don't worry, they'll work around it. And raise more heck this
year than ever before. . . !
Don't miss this wonderful tale from Jean Webster, grandniece of
Mark Twain.
Jean Webster (1876-1916). She was an American writer and author of
many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. This edition
is illustrated with photographs from the 1931 film version starring
Janet Gaynor.
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