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A DOUBTFUL CASE
By BARRY PAIN.
MY friend, James Foxton Mace, was admitted a solicitor. He was managerially employed by the firm to which in previous years he had been articled. Higgs, Petworth, and Higgs enjoy the cleanest of reputations and the dirtiest of offices in Lincoln's Inn Fields. They are a very solid firm, and James had a sure and certain hope of being taken in as a partner.
"When poor old Higgs is called to his rest," was the way Petworth put it.
"When poor dear old Petworth is no longer with us," was what Higgs said.
James had only to wait. He filled in the time by falling in love with Viola Lessing. The affair was rapid and tempestuous. He proposed and was accepted immediately.
He was to be married in three months. During those three months he ceased to be fit for masculine society.
He seemed to think that no one had ever been engaged before, and that he, personally, with some assistance from Miss Lessing, had invented marriage. Many men get similar ideas at such times; a baseless conviction that they are quite extraordinary comes over them and, as I say, renders them unfit for masculine society.
It is a merciful dispensation that they do not seek masculine soci
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