Short Stories (story)
46578 'Still looking for your boot?'
46579 'Yes, sir, and mean to find it.'
46580 'But surely, you said that it was a new brown boot?'
46581 'So it was, sir.
46582 And now it's an old black one.'
46583 'What! you don't mean to say-?'
46584 'That's just what I do mean to say.
46585 I only had three pairs in the world - the new brown, the old black, and the patent leathers, which I am wearing.
46586 Last night they took one of my brown ones, and to-day they have sneaked one of the black.
46587 Well, have you got it?
46588 Speak out, man, and don't stand staring!'
46589 An agitated German waiter had appeared upon the scene.
46590 'No, sir, I have made inquiry all over the hotel, but I can hear no word of it.'
46591 'Well, either that boot comes back before sundown or I'll see the manager and tell him that I go right straight out of this hotel.'
46592 'It shall be found, sir - I promise you that if you will have a little patience it will be found.'
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