Jackson Gregory

Jackson Gregory

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Portrait of Jackson Gregory Jackson Gregory If the Shoe Fits— — Chapter 5 (1916)

Rand had his brandy and went with Audrey to the darkened coolness of the library. About him everywhere was the quiet magnificence of a home that was a mansion. There were rare paintings, exquisite bits of furniture scarcely less the masterpieces of great artists. And he had but to put out his hand and say, “It is mine,” and it would be his in sober earnest. And with it would come to him the countless millions of money, money in gold and bank-notes, in holdings in vast enterprises. He had but to say, “I am Jasper Ruud,” and he would be to all intents and purposes Jasper Ruud.
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Portrait of Jackson Gregory Jackson Gregory If the Shoe Fits— — Chapter 5 (1916)

He wandered long up and down, seeking the thing which he must do, and finding no light glimmering through the fog about him. With the real Jasper Ruud dead, what was left for John Rand to do? Had Ruud lived, sooner or later he would have come back, and then when the two men stood up, side by side, people would know, Audrey would know. But now? They were ready to believe him insane. And if he continued to deny that he was the great millionaire, and the millionaire was never to come back, they would go on from suspicion to certainty.
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Portrait of Jackson Gregory Jackson Gregory If the Shoe Fits— — Chapter 5 (1916)

Audrey would be broken-hearted ... He went no further on that tack. And if he went back to Ruud's home and allowed them to make him continue to play the part of Ruud, what then? Then Audrey would go on thinking him her brother, would go on calling him Cootsie—and John Rand doubled both fists and swore, aloud and fluently. And in the end, having decided nothing, he knew that he had promised to return for lunch, called a passing taxicab, and drove moodily back to the home of the man who had made all of these complications for him.
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