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John Snaith

The WayfarersJ. C. Snaith The Wayfarers CHAPTER I THE DEVIL TO PAY When I opened my eyes it was one o'clock in the day. The cards lay on the table in a heap, and on the carpet in a greater one, the dead bottles in their midst. The candles were burnt out; their holders were foul with smoke and gre...

The SailorSnaith J. C. John Collis The Sailor BOOK I GESTATION I A large woman in a torn dress stood at the gate of a rag and bone dealer's yard. The season was November, the hour midnight, the place a slum in a Midland textile town.Hanging from the wall of the house beyond was a dirty oil lamp r...

Mrs. FitzSnaith J. C. John Collis Mrs. Fitz CHAPTER I ACCORDING TO REUTER "It is snowing," said Mrs. Arbuthnot."Worse luck!" growled I from behind my newspaper. "This unspeakable climate! Why can't we sack the Clerk of the Weather?""Because he is a permanent official," said Joseph Jocelyn De Vere...