All Story Magazine, December 1913 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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VoL. XXVII Simeon & Robertson ee, THE ALL-STORY DECEMBER, 1913. No. 4 A BOOK—COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE. CHAPTER I. TIE SEED SYSONSBY SOWED. I, later-day Didderingtons have had no particular reason to refer back to July 4, 1776, with enthusiasm. At the time of which I write—Sep- tember, 19—, I was the only one of the name, and was not terribly proud of the distinction under the circum- stances, the explanation of which is an awful fag, but must be got over with if the rest of the stuff I am going to write is to have any sense at all. Your revolution had nothing to do with it; but upon the day you decided to lick us, and your lithographers be- gan to turn out the annual supply of ‘I S 721 George Washingtons, my great-great- grandfather, the eighth Earl of Did- derington, was born. He is really responsible for this story. From birth to marriage, and thence to death, he was a deuce of a chap— a rotter—fond of dueling with people he could kill, of gambling, and drink- ing, and of other men’s wives. Didderington families have always been small. Like myself, he was an only child, and I suppose, being heir to an earldom, there were not a few marriageable ladies who found it pos- sible to overlook his beastly habits. In any case, one foolish woman married him. They had two children, a son and a comlicloooks.com