[A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookA Dog with a Bad Name CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR 24/29
W.& W.might do well to apply to the clergyman and Wesleyan minister at Grangerham, who may have some later news.
The writer would be thankful to be of any service in helping to find one whom he has so terribly wronged; and any letter addressed `J., at Jones's Coffee-House, Drury Lane,' will find him. "It should be said that when Forrester was last seen, only faint hopes were held out as to his recovery, even as a cripple." An anxious time followed.
It was hard to work as usual--harder still to wait.
The idea of Forrester being after all found took strange possession of his mind, to the exclusion of all else.
The prospect which had seemed to open before him appeared suddenly blocked; he could think of nothing ahead except that one possible meeting. So preoccupied was he, that his own advertisement for work was forgotten the day after it appeared; and when two days later he found a letter pushed under the door, his heart leaped to his mouth with the conviction that it could refer to nothing but the one object before him.
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