Colonel Starbottle's Client

Excerpt: ...his house, it all seemed to come back on me and set me off agin. When that had happened three times, I turned round and started for home." "And do you mean to say," said the lady, with a discordant laugh, "that you believe, because YOU didn't go there and break the news, that nobody else will? That he won't hear of it from the first man he meets?" "He don't meet any one up where he lives, and only Briggs and myself know it, and I'll see that Briggs don't tell. But it was mighty queer this whole thing comin' upon me suddenly,