Category: Novels
IT was once said of Mr. Robert Grimshaw: “That chap is like a seal”--and the simile was a singularly just one. He was like a seal who is thrusting his head and shoulders out of the water, and, with large, dark eyes and sensitive nostrils, is on the watch. All that could be kno...
IT was once said of Mr. Robert Grimshaw: “That chap is like a seal”--and the simile was a singularly just one. He was like a seal who is thrusting his head and shoulders out of...
2. PART IIAND suddenly, in the thick darkness, whirring as if it were a scream, intermitted for a moment and again commencing, a little bell rang out at Dudley Leicester’s elbow. As sudde...
3. PART IIIIN the shadow of a huge mulberry-tree, upon whose finger-like branches already the very light green leaves were beginning to form a veil, Katya Lascarides was sitting in a deck-...
4. PART IV“OH no,” the specialist said, “I don’t see what purpose it would serve, your telling his wife exactly what happened. I prefer, indeed, that you should not. No doubt it was the s...
5. PART VIN the intervals of running from hotel to hotel--for Robert Grimshaw had taken it for granted that Ellida was right, and that Katya had gone either to the old hotel where she ha...