Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958 / 2008-06-23 00:00:00
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THE CASE _of_ JENNIE BRICE
_By_
MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
_Author of_
THE MAN IN LOWER TEN, WHEN A MAN MARRIES
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, ETC.
_Illustrated by_
M. LEONE BRACKER
1913
CHAPTER I
We have just had another flood, bad enough, but only a foot or two of
water on the first floor. Yesterday we got the mud shoveled out of the
cellar and found Peter, the spaniel that Mr. Ladley left when he "went
away". The flood, and the fact that it was Mr. Ladley's dog whose body
was found half buried in the basement fruit closet, brought back to me
the strange events of the other flood five years ago, when the water
reached more than half-way to the second story, and brought with
it, to some, mystery and sudden death, and to me the worst case of
"shingles" I have ever seen.
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