George Allan England

Name: The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19, Number 6 — The Shackles of Fate
Author: George Allan England

The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

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“The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19, Number 6 — The Shackles of Fate”, published in 1912, is a work by George Allan England. It explores elements such as Lem, Roudini and the Opera House.

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ So Fame stepped down and out; dreams evanished, as all dreams must, even including Love and Life itself; and Reality—guised as salt, sugar and canned shrimp-wiggle—came back.
And Laurena forgave him, for the twelve looked good to her. She figures on being able to hold her job in the Chicago Store, even after the wedding-bells have tolled the knell of parting spinsterhood. And Lem's twelve, joined to her six-fifty, make eighteen and a half. Very fair indeed, for Bucyrusville. ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ Beyond the door, Lem found himself in a medical office. Uneasily he sniffed the scents of druggery and eyed the shiny instruments in cases, the scales and operating-table.
“Wha—what you goin' to do with me?” he blurted, backing away. “I aint sick! All I want is—”
“There, there, don't get excited!” cautioned the M. D., while the bearded man closed in a trifle. “You'll get your nice cell, all right. But first, you know, you've got to change your clothes. That's a rule of this place. Nobody gets a cell who doesn't wear—”
“Naw you don't!” Lem interrupted. ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ I try to pull over this stunt here in Bucyrusville, I shall merely get laughed at. Nobody in these diggings will cleave away from two bits, or even one, to witness Grib's grocery assistant in the Opera House be hog-tied, braceleted, lashed into a box and conveyed to a cabinet, whencefrom to issue free again, in shirt-sleeves. My career would be untimelily frosted in the bud. ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ Some of the best citizens said, at times, that he had a future ahead of him. Which, though a serious handicap, still indicates that even before Roudini, the Handcuff King, exhibited at the Bucyrusville Opera House, Fate was brewing a potion or at least a demi-tasse for Lem. ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ After a few minutes the doctor left the court-room. He came back, after a certain time, with another gentleman, bearded and wise-looking. These two, and the magistrate, all foregathered around Lem, as he sat—“serene, indifferent to fate”—in the dock.
Then the jail M. D. discoursed.
“No symptoms of alcoholism, you see,” he remarked. “Perfectly sober. The disturbance must be mental, rather than physical. Note the expression of the eye, Doctor, the contraction of the pupil, marked asymetry of the facial contours and of the features, especially the nose ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ Lem pondered.
“Gee!” he reflected. “It aint much use tryin' to start in on that. And if I ask Grib for a raise, it's the G. B. for mine, all right. An' if I ask Rena to wait on a spell, like as not I'll lose her. Gal like that's mighty apt to be snapped up, any time, if a feller aint watchin' mighty smart. What the dickens?”
Moral: Love is myopic, yet a great stimulant to cerebral activities.
Enter, now, the Deux ex Machina, in the person of Roudini, the aforesaid Handcuff King, who claimed to have made all the crowned heads of Europe scratch themselves with wonder. ”

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George Allan England, The Red Book Magazine, Volume 19… (1912)

“ Now as you well understand—especially if you are a writer of stories—it is one thing to become an adept in skill, another to win remunerative recognition. This Lemuel G: Botts was wise enough to recognize at once. ”

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