[The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham]@TWC D-Link bookThe Simpkins Plot CHAPTER XVII 2/27
She'll be off back to her mother as soon as ever she can get her clothes packed.
I'll give her a lesson that will cure her of playing off tricks on the gentlemen that stops in my hotel." "If you take that kind of revenge on Sabina," said Meldon, "you will be doing an act of gross injustice for which you will be sorry up to the day of your death." "I will not, but I'll be serving her out the way she deserves." "She has been acting all through," said Meldon, "in your interests, though you can't see it; and you'll make a kind of dog Gelert of her if you sack her now.
You know all about the dog Gelert, I suppose, Doyle ?" "I do not," said Doyle, "and what's more I don't care if there was fifty dogs in it.
Sabina'll go.
Dogs! What has dogs got to do with Sabina and myself? It's not dogs I'm thinking of now." "You evidently don't know anything about the dog I'm speaking of," said Meldon.
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