England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
There was a chill air off the river, and the water looked cold and dark. Side-lights were already appearing, and the siren of a large steamer coming up indulged in grievous lamentations. A slight shiver altered for a moment the contour of the night-watchman’s jersey. He patted...
There was a chill air off the river, and the water looked cold and dark. Side-lights were already appearing, and the siren of a large steamer coming up indulged in grievous lame...
2. Part 2“I put Charlie round the far corner and told ’im not to move and not even to put ’is ’ead round until they was busy, and then I walked up to the gate. I made a little noise open...
3. Part 3He saw the doctor a few hours later, and after a lengthy explanation--with Mrs. Key holding a watching brief for the absent Mr. Punshon--requested him to treat him for the old c...
4. Part 4“Looks like an earthquake,” muttered the constable. He paused, and kept the light directed upon one spot. Then he stooped down and scratched away the earth with his fingers, and...
5. Part 5“He went acrost the room and came back with something tied up in a handkerchief and put it on Sam’s bed. Sam looked at it a moment and then ’e picked it up and out tumbled eleve...
6. Part 6With a startled gesture, and not without looking right and left as though for assistance, should it be needed, she threw her head back, her pale features showing clearly in the...
7. Part 7“‘He’s been made away with, that’s my opinion,’ ses Ginger. ‘We shall never see ’im agin, any more than we shall see that monkey-faced chap that gave us the slip yesterday.’
8. Part 8The visitor looked imploringly at Mrs. Gossett, but seeing no help there turned to the daughter. “I came to tell you my eye is all right now,” he said, slowly. “I thought you’d...
9. Part 9An hour later, when the house was still and dark, she crept down again. It was a warm summer’s night, but she shivered slightly and caught her breath when the door rattled, unde...
10. Part 10Her master nodded, and, left to himself, sat down to think out a position which was as intolerable as it was dangerous. At a great risk he had escaped from the dominion of one w...
11. Part 11“He moved his ’ead a bit and told Ginger to keep quiet. Then he sat up and, buttoning Ginger’s shirt acrost ’is chest very careful, made a sign to Sam and Peter to keep quiet, a...