The Craze of Christina — page 16: what you’re looking at

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eS ES The Craze of Christina. mansion, under the surveillance of a peculiarly disagreeable old butler, or else to forfeit his new-gotten wealth altogether. And it must be admitted that to be saddled with Docker seemed to him at first to be the most maddeningly insupportable condition of all. Ses | He supposed grimly—and there is no reason to believe that his supposition was wrong—that Docker had been left as a watch-dog, sort of spy set upon his movements, so that he might give timely notice to the executors up in London if he ettempted in any way to elude or defeat the conditions of the will. As the first, a faint hope had arisen in Clif- ford’s mind that Docker himself might decline the position thrust upon him. What if the old man were to declare himself, of his own free will, desirous of resigning his onerous position and retiring into private life? Might it not be possible judiciously to pension him off? Clifford actually had had the audacity to sug- gest this to his new butler. ‘*You have worked hard all your life, Docker; would you not like to rest a little in your old age?’’ he said insinuatingly; “‘there can surely be a cottage found for you on the estate, a nice, comfortable little cottage, Docker, with a gar- Comichooks. co