Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Mrs Peixada
ON more than one account the 25th of April will always be a notable anniversary in the calendar of Mr. Arthur Ripley. To begin with, on that day he pocketed his first serious retainer as a lawyer.
Chapters
11. CHAPTER XI.—“HOW SHE ENDEAVORED TO EXPLAIN HER LIFE.
THURSDAY morning it rained. Hetzel was seated in Mrs. Hart’s dining-room, making such an apology for a breakfast as, under the circumstances, could be expected of him, when the...
9. CHAPTER IX.—AN ORDEAL.ARTHUR ran up the steps of Mrs. Hart’s house, and, opening the door with his latch-key, entered the parlor. The gas was burning at full head. Hetzel was stretched at length in a...
5. CHAPTER V.—“A NOTHING STARTS THE SPRING.ANOTHER week slipped away. The weather changed. There was rain almost every day, and a persistent wind blew from the north-east. So the loggia of No. 43 Beekman Place was not mu...
3. CHAPTER III.—STATISTICAL.Arthur was conducted by a dapper little salesman to an inclosure fenced off at the rear of the showroom, and bidden to “make himself at home.” By and by, to kill time, he picked...
6. CHAPTER VI.—“THE WOMAN WHO HESITATES.Such was the cable dispatch that Arthur got a fortnight after he had mailed his letter to Counselor Ulrich of Vienna. A fortnight later still, the post brought him an epistle to...
7. CHAPTER VII.—ENTER MRS. PEIXADA.THE four weeks had wound away. I shall not detain the reader with a history of them. The log-book of a prosperous voyage is apt to be dull literature. They were four weeks of de...
2. CHAPTER II.—“A VOICE, A MYSTERY.ARTHUR RIPLEY—good-natured, impressionable, unpractical Arthur Ripley, as his familiars called him—dwelt in Beekman Place. Beek-man Place, as the reader may not know, is a short...
8. CHAPTER VIII.—“WHAT REST TO-NIGHT?PUT yourself in his place. At first, as we have seen, he was simply stunned, bewildered. His breath was taken away, his understanding baffled. His senses were thrown into disord...
4. CHAPTER IV.—“THAT NOT IMPOSSIBLE SHE.“To start with, after you went down-town this morning, carts laden with furniture began to rattle into the street, and the furniture was carried into No. 46. It appears that the...
10. CHAPTER X.—“SICK OF A FEVER.Mr. Flint and Hetzel lent a hand apiece; and his three friends carried the unhappy man out of the room, of course thereby creating a new sensation among the spectators. They bor...
12. CHAPTER XII.—“THE FINAL STATE O’ THE STORY.ON Thursday, August 14th, at about half, past one in the afternoon, Assistant-district-attorney Romer was seated in his office, poring over a huge law-book’, and smoking a huge...
1. CHAPTER I—A CASE IS STATED.ON more than one account the 25th of April will always be a notable anniversary in the calendar of Mr. Arthur Ripley. To begin with, on that day he pocketed his first serious re...