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THE DEBIT ACCOUNT BY OLIVER ONIONS
THE
DEBIT ACCOUNT
BY
OLIVER ONIONS
Author of "In Accordance With the Evidence,"
"The Exception," etc.
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK
Publishers in America for Hodder & Stoughton
Copyright, 1913
By George H. Doran Company
TO
PHILIP CONNARD
CONTENTS
| PART ONE | PAGE | |
| THE COBDEN CORNER | 7 | |
| PART TWO | ||
| VERANDAH COTTAGE | 69 | |
| PART THREE | ||
| WELL WALK | 149 | |
| PART FOUR | ||
| IDDESLEIGH GATE | 239 | |
| ENVOI | 289 | |
PART I THE COBDEN CORNER
THE DEBIT ACCOUNT
I
One day in the early June of the year 1900 I was taking a walk onHampstead Heath and found myself in the neighbourhood of the Vale ofHealth. About that time my eyes were very much open for such things ashouse-agents' notice-boards and placards in windows that announced thathouses or portions of houses were to let. I was going to be married, andwanted a place in which to live.
My salary was one hundred and fifty pounds a year. I figured on thewages-book of the Freight and Ballast Company as "Jeffries, J. H., Int.Ex. Con.," whic