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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 101 TWINS! CHAPTER I. THE FIRST LADY. "mrs. And Miss Danvers." Mr. Herbert Buxton, standing at the office window of the hotel, glancing at the visitors' book on the desk at his right, saw the names among the latest arrivals. They caught his eye. " Pontresina" was stated to be the place from which they had lately come. " It is the Danvers, for a fiver—Cecil's Danvers." Strolling from the office window, he took a letter —a frayed letter—from his pocket-book. It was post-marked " Pontresina." The signature was " Cecil Buxton "—it was from his brother. " Dear Hubert," it ran, " you really must get something to do! Your request for what you call an advance is absurd. So far from advancing you anything I shall have to cut short the allowance I have been making you. I have met here a Mrs. and Miss Danvers. I have asked Miss Danvers to do me the honour to marry me. She has consented. When that event comes to pass—which will be veryshortly—your allowance will recede to a vanishing point That you will get something to do is, therefore, the advice of your affectionate brother, Cecil Buxton." " It would be an odd coincidence," reflected Hubert, " if that Miss Danvers is this Miss Danvers." An idea occurred to his fertile—too fertile—brain. As the first glimmerings of the idea burst on him, Hubert smiled. In giving birth to Cecil and Hubert Buxton, Nature had been indulging in one of her freaks. They were twins—born within a few seconds of each other. Cecil came .first. Hubert came, with all possible expedition, immediately after. Babies are proverbially alike. These babies were so much alike that, when they were undressed, no one ever pretended to be able to tell one from the other. The resemblance outlived babyhood. As the years went on, Cecil was always being ...
