Further Developments in the making of a Name

The crowning Act of Infamy

The Spirit's Story is concluded

Toppleton consults the Law and forms an Opinion

Toppleton makes a fair Start

At Barncastle Hall

The Dinner and its Result

Barncastle confides in Hopkins

Mr. Hopkins Toppleton makes a Discovery

Epilogue

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TOPPLETON'S CLIENT.

CHAPTER I.

Mr. Hopkins Toppleton

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When Toppleton, Sen., died, it was very generally believed that the firm, whose name has already been mentioned at some length, lost not only its head, but also a very large proportion of its brains,—a situation quite as logical as it was unfortunate for the gentlemen with whom Mr. Toppleton had been associated.[3] Nor was this feeling, that with the departure of Toppleton, the illustrious, for other worlds the firm was deprived of a most considerable portion of its claims to high standing, confined to cavilling outsiders. No one recognized the unhappy state of affairs at the busy office on Broadway more quickly than did Messrs. Morley, 

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