[Septimus by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookSeptimus CHAPTER V 12/35
His clothes were rolled in bundles, his collars embraced his sponge, his trees, divorced from boots, lay on the top of an unprotected bottle of hair-wash; he had tried to fit his brushes against a box of tooth-powder and the top had already come off.
Turner shook out his dress suit and discovered a couple of hotel towels which had got mysteriously hidden in the folds.
She held them up severely. "No wonder you can't get your things in if you take away half the hotel linen," and she threw them to the other side of the room. In twenty minutes she had worked the magic of Wiggleswick.
Septimus was humbly grateful. "If I were you, sir," she said, "I'd go to the station at once and sit on my boxes till my mistress arrives." "I think I'll do it, Turner," said Septimus. Turner went back to Zora flushed, triumphant, and indignant. "If you think, ma'am," said she, "that Mr.Dix is going to help us on our journey, you're very much mistaken.
He'll lose his ticket and he'll lose his luggage and he'll lose himself, and we'll have to go and find them." "You must take Mr.Dix humorously," said Zora. "I've no desire to take him at all, ma'am." And Turner snorted virtuously, as became her station. Zora found him humbly awaiting her on the platform in company with Clem Sypher, who presented her with a great bunch of roses and a bundle of illustrated papers.
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