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    Old Mr. Wiley
    Old Mr. Wiley
    Old Mr. Wiley
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    Old Mr. Wiley

    By Greye La Spina

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Old Mr. Wiley
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    Greye La Spina

    Grey La Spina (1880 - 1969) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction. She was a regular contributor to leading pulp magazines of the early twentieth century and over the course of her career wrote over one hundred pieces of fiction with her most notable works being “The Wolf of the Steppes,” (1919) and the horror novel, Invaders From the Dark (1925).

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      Old Mr. Wiley - Greye La Spina

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Old Mr. Wiley, by Fanny Greye La Spina

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Old Mr. Wiley

      Author: Fanny Greye La Spina

      Release Date: November 6, 2007 [eBook #23379]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD MR. WILEY***

      E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      Transcriber note:

      This etext was produced from Weird Tales, March, 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Old Mr. Wiley

      BY GREYE LA SPINA

      Old Mr. Wiley and the dog came over every night ... but were they real?

      He just lies here tossing and moaning until he's so weak that he sinks into a kind of coma, said the boy's father huskily. There doesn't seem anything particular the matter with him now but weakness. Only, he choked, that he doesn't care much about getting well.

      Miss Beaver kept her eyes on that thin little body outlined by the fine linen sheet. She caught her breath and bit her lower lip to check its trembling. So pitiful, that small scion of a long line of highly placed aristocratic and wealthy forebears, that her cool, capable hand went out involuntarily to soothe the fevered childish brow. She wanted suddenly to gather the little body into her warm arms, against her kind breast. Her emotion, she realized, was far from professional; Frank Wiley IV had somehow laid a finger on her heartstrings.

      If you can rouse him from this lethargy and help him find some interest in living, Frank Wiley III said thickly, you won't find me unappreciative, Miss Beaver.

      The nurse contemplated that small, apathetic patient in silence. Doctor Parris had warned her that unless the boy's interest could somehow be stimulated, the little fellow would die from sheer lack of incentive to live. Her emotion moistened her eyes and constricted her throat muscles. She had to clear her throat before she could speak.

      I can only promise to do my very best for this dear little boy, she said hurriedly. No human being can do more than his best.

      Doctor Parris tells me you have been uniformly successful with the cases he's put you on. I hope, the young father entreated, that you'll follow your usual precedent.

      The doctor is too kind, murmured Miss Beaver with slightly lifted brows. I fear he gives me more credit than I deserve.

      "There I hope you're wrong. He calls you an intuitive psychic. It is upon your intuitions that I'm

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