John Cave (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from John Cave

Having, through drunkenness, at the age of twenty-four, lost his place as a reporter on one of the newspapers of Chicago, John Cave returned to the East.

On a cold and starry evening in November he arrived. His luggage a station attendant piled on the roof of a hansom, and the driver drove him to our most fashionable hotel, to our small, red-brick hotel down town.

At great expense engaging there a bedroom with a bath, he bathed and put on fresh clothes that one of the hotel valets had unpacked and pressed for him. Then he counted, thoughtfully, his money. There was a lot of it. He smiled.

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