Language: English
Published in: 1856
Categorie(s): Fiction, Short Stories
Word count: 14,355 words (≈ about 1 hour)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11231
Copyright: Public Domain
The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
The narrator already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey. Nippers suffers from chronic indigestion, and Turkey… (more)
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