The Craze of Christina — page 191: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Craze of Christina. 187 passion, the greed for, and the love of money. James Docker loved money too, and it did not seem to him that there breathed a man upon | the face of the earth who could possibly love anything else better. Therefore when Monday night came, and he realized that his master had stayed away over his week, to the tune of fifty thousand pounds, he firmly believed that Mark must have gone out of his mind. Karly on the Tuesday morning Docker re- ceived a telegram which Clifford had dispatched from Rheims, where he had been obliged to go on business connected with the funeral of Christina’s father. He had sent it from there in preference to Laon, because he was _nerv- ously anxious to conceal his exact whereabouts from Docker. Docker might consider it his duty to follow him! The telegram was to the effect that Clifford regretted being unable to come home at present, being detained abroad by urgent affairs. ‘‘What business have he to have ‘affairs,’ I should like to know, as I know nothin’ about! He can’t have anything more important than his money, which he’s a-throwin’ away as if it was so much sgand!’’ and Docker was very angry indeed with the master he had thought GComichooksico