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    Next to a Dog: A Short Story
    Next to a Dog: A Short Story
    Next to a Dog: A Short Story
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    Next to a Dog: A Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

    Widow Joyce Lambert is poor and out of work. So fond is she of her little half-blind aging terrier, Terry—a gift from her late husband—that she will do just about anything to keep him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 12, 2013
    ISBN9780062302793
    Next to a Dog: A Short Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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      Next to a Dog - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      Next to a Dog

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      NEXT TO A DOG

      The ladylike woman behind the Registry Office table cleared her throat and peered across at the girl who sat opposite.

      Then you refuse to consider the post? It only came in this morning. A very nice part of Italy, I believe, a widower with a little boy of three and an elderly lady, his mother or aunt.

      Joyce Lambert shook her head.

      I can’t go out of England, she said in a tired voice; there are reasons. If only you could find me a daily post?

      Her voice shook slightly—ever so slightly, for she had it well under control. Her dark blue eyes looked appealingly at the woman opposite her.

      It’s very difficult, Mrs. Lambert. The only kind of daily governess required is one who has full qualifications. You have none. I have hundreds on my books—literally hundreds. She paused. You have someone at home you can’t leave?

      Joyce nodded.

      A child?

      No, not a child. And a faint smile flickered across her face.

      Well, it is very unfortunate. I will do my best, of course, but—

      The interview was clearly at an end. Joyce rose. She was biting her lip to keep the tears from springing to her eyes as she emerged from the frowsy office into the street.

      You mustn’t, she admonished herself sternly. "Don’t be a snivelling little idiot. You’re panicking—that’s what you’re doing—panicking. No good ever came of giving way to panic. It’s quite early in the day

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