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Teething Ring, by James Causey
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Title: Teething Ring
Author: James Causey
Illustrator: Dick Francis
Release Date: August 6, 2009 [EBook #29625]
Language: English
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Teething Ring
By JAMES CAUSEY
[Illustration: Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS]
Anyone can make an error, but the higher the society ... the more disastrous the mistake!
Half an hour before, while she had been engrossed in the current soap opera and Harry Junior was screaming in his crib, Melinda would naturally have slammed the front door in the little man's face. However, when the bell rang, she was wearing her new Chinese red housecoat, had just lustered her nails to a blinding scarlet, and Harry Junior was sleeping like an angel.
Yawning, Melinda answered the door and the little man said, beaming, "Excellent day. I have geegaws for information."
Melinda did not quite recoil. He was perhaps five feet tall, with a gleaming hairless scalp and a young-old face. He wore a plain gray tunic, and a peddler's tray hung from his thin shoulders.
"Don't want any," Melinda stated flatly.
"Please." He had great, beseeching am