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The Gentleman in the Plum-Colored Hat

Cook, Dutton. "The Gentleman in the Plum-Colored Hat." New York Saturday Press. 18 Nov. 1865: 246-247, 250-252.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

A man visits his sickly aunt in hopes of gaining some money through her will. Instead he learns the terrible story of how she fancied a mysterious man she danced with once at a ball, and was tricked into thinking he'd come for her.