Message #165984

[Denizen of Darkness]

"Tell me about it all, old ****," I said.

  "I'm sure I told you last time I was at home."

  "Never; my memory for yarns is only too good. I hate a chestnut."

  "Well, here goes! Mind you I don't profess to explain the thing; only I don't think I did wrong in telling the young woman, for, however you account for it, it was not nice."

  "A good many years ago there came to the island, as a clerk, un nommé Bolter, English or Jew."

  "His name is not Jewish."