Category: Novels
If you had been standing on a certain cold night in January opposite the great building where _The Day_ is jewelled in electric lights across the dark sky, you would have seen a little, stout man run down the steps of the entrance at the side, three at a time, land on the pave...
Humphrey Quain came into the office of _The Day_ with the greatest asset a journalist can possess--enthusiasm. There is no other profession in the world that calls so continuall...
3. PART IIIThe Pen Club stands far away from Clubland up a narrow court that leads from Fleet Street, into the maze of the little streets and courts that finally emerge on Holborn.
4. PART IVThe noise of Paris came to him through the open windows, a confusion of trivial sounds utterly different from the solid, strong note that London gave forth. It was the noise of...
1. PART IIf you had been standing on a certain cold night in January opposite the great building where _The Day_ is jewelled in electric lights across the dark sky, you would have seen a...