Category: Adventure
The Bureau--known as _Lamb’s Agency_--was already in working order, and daily settling into its pace. Its operations so far had seemed wholly to justify its existence, and its founder was satisfied. During this first month of its being some score of deserving cases had been he...
The Bureau--known as _Lamb’s Agency_--was already in working order, and daily settling into its pace. Its operations so far had seemed wholly to justify its existence, and its f...
2. CHAPTER II.Gilead re-entered the quiet little room with a feeling as if he were desecrating a woodland shrine. As yet he could not associate that figure of immortal loveliness with the pit...
3. CHAPTER III.Gilead took a cab to Raxe’s Hotel, and enquired at once for “Judex.” He seemed conscious of a twinkle in the right eye of the hall-porter who took his name, and of that of the b...
4. CHAPTER IV.Gilead had often encountered in the _Daily Post_--sandwiched, say, between a heart-moving appeal on behalf of the outcast and houseless, and a last drowning cry for help from a...
5. letter I had the honour of addressing to you yesterday, and the“I am unfortunate,” said Gilead. “I have much correspondence and a poor memory, and a name, however distinctive, is apt to slip me. I devoted, I am afraid, but a cursory examina...
6. CHAPTER V.Gilead, the most disinterested of utilitarians, had no sympathy with that order of State socialism which would deprive all personal effort of its motive and initiative by illega...
7. CHAPTER VI._Wanted, old parrakeet skins, in particular the rose-ringed. Description: Green Plumage; black band extending from chin nearly to nape; rose-coloured collar. Length about_ 16 _i...
8. CHAPTER VII.It was not to be supposed that the Agency, so catholic, so philanthropic, so disinterested in its labours, and withal so boundlessly endowed, would long escape the notice of tho...
9. CHAPTER VIII.“That’s just it,” he said. “I don’t want to spoil the reputation I made over that Marble Statuette affair. Supposing we divide the responsibility, and invite the advertiser to a...
10. CHAPTER IX.The typical Agony Column of the _Daily Post_ was built up in courses which varied in little but their diurnal degree of thickness. Starting from a plinth, say, of Dancing and Gy...
11. CHAPTER X.Gilead had left the office betimes to attend a meeting convened for the purpose of discussing the _Arts Education Bill_, a measure which it was proposed to bring before Parliame...
12. CHAPTER XI.No one instituting a philanthropic mission could have been less adequately equipped for it in one way than Gilead himself. Beginning by presuming in all others an integrity as p...
13. CHAPTER XII.Nothing short of the direct interposition of Providence can be held to explain the premature chancing into Gilead’s hands one morning of an ex-official copy of the _Daily Post_....
14. CHAPTER XIII.Utterly dumfoundered as he was for the moment, Gilead very quickly rallied from his stupefaction, and, summoning all his native urbanity to his aid, advanced a step and seized t...