Indiscretions of Archie

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1. Mr Roscoe Sherriff Has An Idea
   CHAPTER VIII. A DISTURBED NIGHT FOR DEAR OLD SQUIFFY CHAPTER IX. A LETTER FROM PARKER CHAPTER X. DOING FATHER A BIT OF GOOD CHAPTER XI. SAL…
2. It wasn’t Archie’s fault really. Its true he went to America and fell
   in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her—well, what else was there to do? From his poin…
3. Distressing Scene
   “I say, laddie!” said Archie. “Sir?” replied the desk-clerk alertly. All the employes of the Hotel Cosmopolis were alert. It was one of the…
4. Work Wanted
   It seemed to Archie, as he surveyed his position at the end of the first month of his married life, that all was for the best in the best o…
5. Strange Experiences Of An Artist’s Model
   “I say, old thing!” Archie spoke plaintively. Already he was looking back ruefully to the time when he had supposed that an artist’s model…
6. Indiscretions of Archie - The Bomb - (1)
   Archie bounded silently out into the other room and stood listening tensely. He was not a naturally querulous man, but he did feel at this…
7. Indiscretions of Archie - The Bomb - (2)
   “Right, sorr.” “Don’t let anyone in.” “No, sorr.” “Well, see that you don’t. Come along, Donahue, now. Look slippy.” “On the spot, sorr!” s…
8. A Disturbed Night For Dear Old Squiffy
   Peril sharpens the intellect. Archie’s mind as a rule worked in rather a languid and restful sort of way, but now it got going with a rush…
9. A Letter From Parker
   As the days went by and he settled down at the Hotel Cosmopolis, Archie, looking about him and revising earlier judgments, was inclined to…
10. Doing Father A Bit Of Good
    Reggie Van Tuyl approached the table languidly, and sank down into a chair. He was a long youth with a rather subdued and deflated look, as…
11. Salvatore Chooses The Wrong Moment
    Archie reclaimed the family jewellery from its temporary home next morning; and, having done so, sauntered back to the Cosmopolis. He was s…
12. Bright Eyes—And A Fly
    The Hermitage (unrivalled scenery, superb cuisine, Daniel Brewster, proprietor) was a picturesque summer hotel in the green heart of the mo…
13. Rallying Round Percy
    It amazed Archie through the whole of a long afternoon to reflect how swiftly and unexpectedly the blue and brilliant sky of life can cloud…
14. The Sad Case Of Looney Biddle
    Archie was a simple soul, and, as is the case with most simple souls, gratitude came easily to him. He appreciated kind treatment. And when…
15. Summer Storms
    Of course, in a way, the thing was simple. The wheeze was, in a sense, straightforward and uncomplicated. What he wanted to do was to point…
16. Archie Accepts A Situation
    Lucille moved her wrist slowly round, the better to examine the new bracelet. “You really are an angel, angel!” she murmured. “Like it?” sa…
17. Brother Bill’s Romance
    “Her eyes,” said Bill Brewster, “are like—like—what’s the word I want?” He looked across at Lucille and Archie. Lucille was leaning forward…
18. The Sausage Chappie
    The Personality That Wins cost Archie two dollars in cash and a lot of embarrassment when he asked for it at the store. To buy a treatise o…
19. Indiscretions of Archie - Reggie Comes To Life - (1)
    The advantage of having plenty of time on one’s hands is that one has leisure to attend to the affairs of all one’s circle of friends; and…
20. Indiscretions of Archie - Reggie Comes To Life - (2)
    “It was Lucille’s idea,” explained Archie. He was about to mention his brother-in-law’s connection with the matter, but checked himself in…
21. The-Sausage-Chappie-Clicks
    Rendered restless by relief, Bill Brewster did not linger long at the luncheon-table. Shortly after Reggie van Tuyl had retired, he got up…
22. The Growing Boy
    The lobby of the Cosmopolis Hotel was a favourite stamping-ground of Mr. Daniel Brewster, its proprietor. He liked to wander about there, k…
23. Washy Steps Into The Hall Of Fame
    At about nine o’clock next morning, in a suite at the Hotel Cosmopolis, Mrs. Cora Bates McCall, the eminent lecturer on Rational Eating, wa…
24. Indiscretions of Archie - Mother’s Knee - (1)
    Archie Moffam’s connection with that devastatingly popular ballad, “Mother’s Knee,” was one to which he always looked back later with a cer…
25. Indiscretions of Archie - Mother’s Knee - (2)
    “The leader of the orchestra would be afraid to do it.” “Ten dollars—supplied by William here—push it over, Bill, old man—will remove his t…
26. The Wigmore Venus
    The morning was so brilliantly fine; the populace popped to and fro in so active and cheery a manner; and everybody appeared to be so absol…
27. A Tale Of A Grandfather
    Archie was not a man who readily allowed himself to become worried, especially about people who were not in his own immediate circle of fri…