Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926

"Listen, Moon!"

The Story.* It was after spending a molten July day on his slanting cellar door, contemplating pipe-smoke, hollyhocks and a vista of the Marvellous Vale, that Dr. Higbie Chaffinch, 64, professor of the Latin language and literature at Johns Hopkins University and for some weeks a widower, journeyed to Baltimore's business section to advertise for a housekeeper, and, adventurously, to dine in an oyster-bar. It was in the oyster-bar that a rubicund, ejaculatory stranger tendered him a card:

HILTONSHURLEY MOGGS The Moggs Foundation For the purveying of useless things to...

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