MURDER IN ANY DEGREE: ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK:
A COMEDY FOR WIVES: THE LIE: EVEN THREES:
A MAN OF NO IMAGINATION: LARRY MOORE:MY WIFE'S WEDDING PRESENTS: THE SURPRISES OF THE LOTTERY
BY OWEN JOHNSON Author of "Stover at Yale," "The Varmint," etc., etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY F.R. GRUGER AND LEON GUIPON
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1913
1907, 1912, 1913, THE CENTURY CO.
1911, THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1911, THE NATIONAL POST CO.
1912, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING MAGAZINE
1908, THE RIDGWAY COMPANY
1906, ASSOCIATED SUNDAY MAGAZINES, INCORPORATED
1910, THE PEARSON PUBLISHING COMPANY
Published, August, 1913
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
"I'll come here, I'll be your model, I'll sit for you by the hour"
From his tone the group perceived that the hazards had brought to himsome abrupt coincidence
Rantoul, ... decorating his ankles with lavender and black
"Oh, tell me, little ball, is it ta-ta or good-by?"
Wild-eyed and hilarious they descended on the clubhouse with themiraculous news
A committee carefully examined the books of the club
"You gave him—the tickets! The Lottery Tickets!"
MURDER IN ANY DEGREE
I
One Sunday in March they had been marooned at the club, Steingall thepainter and Quinny the illustrator, and, having lunched late, had boredthemselves separately to their limits over the periodicals until,preferring to bore each other, they had gravitated together in easyarm-chairs before the big Renaissance fireplace.
Steingall, sunk in his collar, from behind the black-rimmed spectacles,which, with their trailing ribbon of black, gave a touch of Continentalelegance to his cropped beard and colonel's mustaches, watched withoutenthusiasm th