George Michael Cohan

“ She chaperoned me here."
"Has she a key, also?"
"May I tell him why you came?"
"He put $200,000 in that safe---bribe money for a Mayor Cargan. There's a good story for your paper."
"Mrs. Rhodes is engaged to marry Mayor Cargan."
"May we not stay here to-night---so Mrs. Rhodes can meet Mayor Cargan---and save him?"
"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
"I've written about it a great many times, but never believed it before–Isn't it wonderful!"
"That's not a regular ghost–it's the hermit–Quimby told me all about him." ”

“ I'll give you all the time you want when I finish to-morrow at midnight."
The road to Baldpate Inn.
"The hermit's hut--his wife ran away with a traveling man and it made him a woman hater."
"He often plays ghost to frighten us natives hereabouts." ”

“ The season won't open for a month."
"I'll catch the first train---start work at 12 o'clock sharp and finish the book to-morrow at midnight---or lose the $5,000."
"You'll find your 'real people' more exciting than my melodrama. Truth is always stranger than fiction."
"Remember----to-morrow at midnight!"
The arrival at Asquewan Falls.
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ELIJA QUIMBY ASQUEWAN FALLS NY
MY FRIEND G.W.MAGEE ARRIVES ELEVEN-FORTY WILL OCCUPY BALDPATE INN [...] PHONE AND LIGHT CONNECTION [...] MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE
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