Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Keeban

The quick, quiet unlocking and then the closing of the hall door on the floor below told me that Jerry had come in; so I sat up, roused as I always was when I felt him about. He put life into any place,--even into an Astor Street marble mansion in the somnolence of two-thirty...

Chapters

13. Part 13

Its outer wall was not of glass; rather, it was not all glass, though there were two windows in it. No blinds were drawn before them but they were black from the steel shutters...

4. Part 4

“--he dyed his silver hairs twenty years back; and about the time the tango came in, he began pumping his face full of paraffin. Occasionally some of it slipped down in his chee...

5. Part 5

“Yesterday at lunch,” Fred kept at me, “you asked me particularly about father’s engagements for last night; you asked whether Shirley would drive down to meet him. I told you s...

2. Part 2

“That they did meet me; for there’s another me about, Steve; you know I’ve felt that. I know now he must be one of two things--either another personality living in me which turn...

12. Part 12

The last step on their ladder of reason was not difficult for my mind to ascend. I had spoiled their great scheme at the Sencort Trust; therefore now I was to be punished. Perha...

3. Part 3

Again he drew deep breath; then he struck his hands together. “I’ll cure her, Steve, by the only way. I’ll show her Keeban! But we’ve got to be careful--awfully, awfully careful...

7. Part 7

So much I had gathered from Jerry during the afternoon. The actual go-getter in any society is in the small minority; he, or she, supports a host of hangers-on; it is only the a...

1. Part 1

The quick, quiet unlocking and then the closing of the hall door on the floor below told me that Jerry had come in; so I sat up, roused as I always was when I felt him about. He...

9. Part 9

“That was blob, too. But ninety was forty-seven and a half; eighty-nine opened at forty-five and lifted a half. Ninety-three in New York was fifty-five and was a half higher in...

11. Part 11

I had the note just after breakfast; and the _Times_ this morning told that Lord Strathon, for England, and F. L. Géroud, for France, were arriving on the _Majestic_ for immedia...

10. Part 10

Occasionally, but with rapidly lessening frequency, I wondered about George,--why he didn’t show up for supper and to what I’d left him with Dib. I ventured to ask Doris about him.

6. Part 6

I went through it to an area between the shop and an old moved-over frame building. Some one--I didn’t know who--relieved the child in the shop, for she came out to me and led m...

8. Part 8

Now she meant to me, besides what she was herself, a chance for getting into touch again with all that world. I got to thinking particularly of her friend, Magellan, and looking...

14. Part 14

I’ve thought about that a lot, these days. My parents picked up Jerry and adopted him to “broaden” me and immediately set about the business of making him as much like ourselves...