The Red Book Magazine/Volume 44/Number 6/The Battle of Berkeley Square
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RARELY does a book of fiction rank among the “best sellers” through two seasons. Yet such is the fortune of Mr. Arlen and of his “These Charming People” and “The Green Hat.” An immense new sale of them is now developing that seems likely to make doubly sure the success of this author’s forthcoming book of Mayfair stories. But you may read all Mr. Arlen’s new stories first in this magazine.
Illustration: Shirley herself had supervised the builders, decorators and plumbers. Poor Hugo!
The Battle of Berkeley Square
By Michael Arlen
ONE morning not long ago a gentleman was engaged in killing worms in the gardens of Berkeley Square, when it was forced on his attention that he had a pain. The pain, which was temporarily offensive, was in his side; but thinking at first that it was no more than a stitch, he dismissed it from his mind as a pain unworthy of the notice of an officer and a gentleman, and went on killing worms according to the directions on the tin. This was a large tin, and held at an angle in the gentleman’s right hand, a white powder issued therefrom and covered the pretty blades of grass, the while with his left hand he maneuvered a syringe in such a way that a browni
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