Blind Policy

Professor Westcott, next door, had another consignment that morning. The London and North Western Railway Company's men called with their van and a way-bill to deliver two chest...

The Clareboroughs' carriage was at the door, and the well-matched, handsome pair of horses were impatiently pawing the ground, in spite of sundry admonitions from the plump coac...

In a miserable, musty-smelling, four-wheeled cab, whose windows were drawn up, and so spattered with mud and the heavy rain which fell upon the roof that the gleam from the stre...

"They treat me as if I were mad. Have I got some strange notion in my head? No woman could possibly meet one with such a--Ah! good-day!" he cried quickly, for, as he was passing...

He laughed in his excitement--an unpleasant, harsh laugh which startled him; for as a doctor he had had to deal with strange patients beside the one at the mysterious house, and...

Marion, in her desperation, thoroughly now at bay and fierce in her reckless determination to save her lover's life, uttered her warning words to James Clareborough, who had bee...

The nearest church clock was striking three as Chester passed into the great west-end artery, which was almost deserted, and he had been walking rapidly, under the influence of...

Chester took a couple of steps to his right, for there was a faint sound in the pitchy darkness which he interpreted to mean the advance of an enemy. Then in the perturbation of...

Marion did not check her pace till, hot and breathless, she was forced to rest for a few minutes. Her brain was in a state of bewildering confusion, and had Chester been there t...

Two gloveless hands caught Dr Chester's as he entered his consulting-room, and a strange thrill ran through him as a beautiful face, wild-eyed and agitated, was thrust close to...

As Chester turned and gazed in his patient's face, he felt that all was over: and at that moment Paddy, startled by Marion's excited words, rushed across and caught his arm.

Roach turned to the second portmanteau, which stood inside the door, and took out a dark lantern. Then striking a match, he lit it, and in obedience to a word from his young com...

But the lady shook her grey sausage curls slowly, and elaborately began to unfold a large bordered pocket-handkerchief, puckered up her plump countenance, gazed piteously at the...

"It's all over," said Chester to himself. "That doctor's correct, and I must not trifle or I shall be laid by with something wrong in the head. That drugging began it, and I'm n...

"James has spoken very well," said the owner of the hands which Chester could see playing about his breast; and as he uttered these words he too sank into a chair, and the ray o...

With the tones of the sweet, rich voice thrilling his nerves, Fred Chester opened his eyes as he sat back in his chair, and gazed up at the cluster of soft lights glowing by the...

"Yes, dear, I felt obliged to come. Don't, pray don't be ashamed of me and think me weak," pleaded the poor girl, as they embraced and then sat down together upon the couch.

"At last!" muttered Chester, as he stood, pale and careworn, leaning upon the iron rail in the Row, watching the carriages slowly filing by, or stopping from time to time.

Chester was borne into the box-office, and a medical man sent for, under whose ministrations he recovered consciousness, and soon after was able to declare who he was and his ab...

"Bah!" ejaculated Chester in his rage and despair, as he swung round and hurried away. "Fool, idiot! No more like her than that miserable flower-seller is. Am I suffering from t...

The inspector took a chair, but his follower, evidently a plain clothes' officer, remained standing by the door; while, as if bound to make a memorandum of some important case,...

Chester stood on the doorstep for some minutes, thinking, in perfect ignorance of what was taking place inside, and twice over he rang the bell, in the determination to enter an...

Mr Roach confessed to being an admirer of the fair sex; and consequent upon his position, not from any special attraction of mind or person, the butler's advances were in more t...

"Blood of the grape!" cried the superintendent, contemptuously. "Where were you brought up? Never in a gentleman's wine cellar before? You should go down to the docks and see th...

In another moment a crushing blow from a life-preserver, delivered by a vigorous arm, would have fallen upon the back of Chester's skull, and sent him headlong down the flight o...

"Well, say a quarter to, my dear, because that gives ample time to ring for the urn and make the tea, though nine is really a very nice hour. It is not right for a young lady to...

It was a lovely morning in the sylvan solitude by The Towers, and leaving Mrs James and Mrs Dennis Clareborough in the drawing-room, Marion took her sunshade and a book, to wand...

To Chester's surprise James Clareborough's face hardened and grew stony as they approached, and the next moment he had passed him without a word or the slightest sign of recogni...

The customary inquest followed, and after careful examination of the various witnesses, and a visit to the place, the jury, by the coroner's direction, returned a verdict of "wi...

It was a good forty-eight hours before Chester could think clearly. His aunt had sternly avoided his room, and he had been dependent upon Laura, who attended him as he lay quite...

As Chester waited for an answer to his summons the thought of the awkwardness of his position struck him, but he was strung up and determined to go on with his quest at all haza...

"Quick!" she whispered, and hurried with him through a door on their right, which led into a library with two windows facing the street; but the shutters were closed and the pla...

As Chester entered the room, and found himself face to face with the woman he had so cruelly used, he involuntarily caught Marion's arm, placed it beneath his own, and drew a de...

As the door banged to and was locked, Roach uttered a wild cry and threw himself upon the floor, covering the back of his head with his hands, as he thrust it into the corner fa...

Highcombe Street gradually became blocked by the eager crowd always ready to gather, discuss and microscopically magnify the event that has been the attraction, and in a very sh...

"Of course, Orthur, the different grades in this service have to be kept distinct, and the inferiors have to look up to their superiors just as it is in the army."

It was not until after many days of wild delirium that Fred Chester unclosed his eyes with the light of reason to make things clear once more. He was in his own room, and he lay...