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...lawyer still seem to be haggling. In oblique reference to the possible serializing of Bromfield, his old publishers say of his current offering: "This novel has not appeared in any periodical." Other Stokes-Bromfield books: The Green Bay Tree, Possession, A Good Woman, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg, Twenty-Four Hours...
CHARLES E. SPRAGG...
...Weatherby, a portly widow with a sensuous passion for exotic religions, was flattered to receive them both one hot afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon...
Miss Fosdick, these 20 years companion to Mrs. Weatherby, knew the reasons. And she knew why Miss Annie Spragg got those "stigmata," and who her passionate lover. But Miss Fosdick was more interested in her own lack of lover, and blushed under the glance of another of Mrs. Weatherby's callers-in-re-Spragg...
Bessie Cudlip facilitated his courtship of Miss Fosdick by dying (on the same day as Miss Spragg), and leaving him her money. For she, a hearty wench from the "Pot and Pie," had picked up Mr. Winnery, Sr., in Brighton, honeymooned with him in Paris, that glorified Brighton, and lavished money since his death on church-sociables and Sunday School picnics...