Amos Kilbright. His Adscititious Experiences by Frank R. Stockton, Fiction, Short Stories

& 34;I came to you, sir,& 34; he said,& 34;to ask if you would have the goodness to purchase one or more of these tickets?& 34; And he held out to me a card entitling one person to admission to a seance to be given by a party of spiritualists in one of the public buildings of the town. A feeling of anger arose within me. I was chagrined to think that I had begun to interest myself in a person who merely came to interrupt me in my business by trying to sell me tickets to a spiritualistic exhibition. . . !