[Septimus by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookSeptimus CHAPTER VII 29/35
"It's a case of cog-wheels instead of corpuscles.
I'm just a heathen bit of machinery, with my head full of diagrams." "You're a tender-hearted baby," said Zora.
"Give me those bits of dog." She took them from his hand and threw the mutilated body into the fire. "See," she said, "let us keep tokens.
I'll keep the head and you the tail. If ever you want me badly send me the tail, and I'll come to you from any distance--and if I want you I'll send you the head." "I'll come to you from the ends of the earth," said Septimus. So he went home a happy man, with his tail in his pocket. * * * * * The next morning, about eight o'clock, just as he was sinking into his first sleep, he was awakened through a sudden dream of battle by a series of revolver shots.
Wondering whether Wiggleswick had gone mad or was attempting an elaborate and painful mode of suicide, he leaped out of bed and rushed to the landing. "What's the matter ?" "Hello! You're up at last!" cried Clem Sypher, appearing at the bottom of the stairs, sprucely attired for the city, and wearing a flower in the buttonhole of his overcoat.
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