sealskinned

"Be kind enough to enter my house with me," said the sealskinned gentleman when they had alighted.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

The sealskinned gentleman received the tire, placed it inside the car, gazed intently at the ex-coachman, and muttered to himself inscrutable words.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

The sealskinned gentleman opened a door of the car.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

Stationed in Greenland, far from the smell of gunpowder but also far from any American women, the legislator-to-be seeks out the sealskinned houris of an Eskimo camp.

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