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    A Wasted Day
    A Wasted Day
    A Wasted Day
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    A Wasted Day

    By Richard Davis

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Wasted Day" by Richard Harding Davis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547368618
    A Wasted Day
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    Richard Davis

    Richard Davis was born and educated in Melbourne and now lives in Queensland. He was encouraged in his writing by Alan Marshall, Ivan Southall and later, Nobel prize-winning author Patrick White. Richard pursued a successful career in commerce before taking up full-time writing in 1997. Since then his published works have included three internationally acclaimed biographies of musicians: Geoffrey Parsons - Among Friends (ABC Books), Eileen Joyce: A Portrait (Fremantle Press) and Anna Bishop - The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna (Currency Press). The latest in this series is Wotan’s Daughter - The Life of Marjorie Lawrence.

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      A Wasted Day - Richard Davis

      Richard Harding Davis

      A Wasted Day

      EAN 8596547368618

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

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      When its turn came, the private secretary, somewhat apologetically, laid the letter in front of the Wisest Man in Wall Street.

      From Mrs. Austin, probation officer, Court of General Sessions, he explained. Wants a letter about Spear. He’s been convicted of theft. Comes up for sentence Tuesday.

      Spear? repeated Arnold Thorndike.

      Young fellow, stenographer, used to do your letters last summer going in and out on the train.

      The great man nodded. I remember. What about him?

      The habitual gloom of the private secretary was lightened by a grin.

      Went on the loose; had with him about five hundred dollars belonging to the firm; he’s with Isaacs & Sons now, shoe people on Sixth Avenue. Met a woman, and woke up without the money. The next morning he offered to make good, but Isaacs called in a policeman. When they looked into it, they found the boy had been drunk. They tried to withdraw the charge, but he’d been committed. Now, the probation officer is trying to get the judge to suspend sentence. A letter from you, sir, would—

      It was evident the mind of the great man was elsewhere. Young men who, drunk or sober, spent the firm’s money on women who disappeared before sunrise

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