Category: Novels
It was nine o'clock at night, and the thirty huge dynamos of the Société Générale Electrique of Paris were nearly all at work. In the great glass-roofed hall of the Mont Parnasse Central Power Station blue-bloused workmen moved quietly over the shining floors of white concrete...
It was nine o'clock at night, and the thirty huge dynamos of the Société Générale Electrique of Paris were nearly all at work. In the great glass-roofed hall of the Mont Parnass...
2. CHAPTER IIThey found themselves in a narrow passage, and immediately to their left was a glass window like the window of a conciergerie, one panel of which was open and looked into a ding...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe next day was cold, but bright and sunny. From ten o'clock in the morning until _déjeuner_ at twelve o'clock, Ethel McMahon endeavoured to instil some rudimentary knowledge o...
4. CHAPTER IVAt six o'clock Basil came for Ethel. Mrs. McMahon greeted him rather more kindly than usual, and he noticed it with some surprise, for he was always conscious that the old lady...
5. CHAPTER VGregory arrived at his hotel in the Latin Quarter about ten. Loneliness oppressed him, and he went to the couple of attics upon the top floor tenanted by himself and Deschamps....
6. CHAPTER VIThe night before the most luxurious train in Europe had left the Gare de Lyon at Paris. The night had been bitterly cold, and as the vast machine swung out of the station all th...
7. CHAPTER VIIAbout ten o'clock in the morning of the day on which Basil Gregory and Emile Deschamps had arrived at Monte Carlo, another train had pulled into the long low station on the Medi...
8. CHAPTER VIIIIn a tiny room high up in the Hôtel Malmaison, above the servants' quarters, and on the roof, indeed--for the valet of Monsieur Montoyer was asthmatic and must breathe the fresh...
9. CHAPTER IXHe had left the Hôtel Malmaison but five minutes before. The metal check for his light coat and opera hat was in his waistcoat pocket, and as he walked slowly up the Atrium, smo...