Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCING MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON.
Chapter 2 MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON LEASES AN OFFICE.
Chapter 3 MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON ENCOUNTERS A WEARY SPIRIT.
Chapter 4 THE WEARY SPIRIT GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.
Chapter 5 HOPKINS BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE WEARY SPIRIT.
Chapter 6 THE SPIRIT UNFOLDS A HORRID TALE.
Chapter 7 A CHAPTER OF PROFIT AND LOSS.
Chapter 8 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MAKING OF A NAME.
Chapter 9 THE CROWNING ACT OF INFAMY.
Chapter 10 THE SPIRIT'S STORY IS CONCLUDED.
Chapter 11 TOPPLETON CONSULTS THE LAW AND FORMS AN OPINION.
Chapter 12 TOPPLETON MAKES A FAIR START.
Chapter 13 AT BARNCASTLE HALL.
Chapter 14 THE DINNER AND ITS RESULT.
Chapter 15 BARNCASTLE CONFIDES IN HOPKINS.
Chapter 16 MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON MAKES A DISCOVERY.
Chapter 17 EPILOGUE.
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Chapter 14 THE DINNER AND ITS RESULT.

A half-hour later Toppleton entered the drawing room of Barncastle Hall, umbrella in one hand, carpet-bag in the other; his red necktie arranged grotesquely about his neck, the picture of Americanism "as she is drawn" by British cartoonists. Any other than a well-bred English gathering would have received him with hilarious enthusiasm, and Hopkins

            
            

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