Category: Humour
EPISODE PAGE I. “STRICTLY BUSINESS” 1 II. A WATCHING BRIEF 27 III. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 53 IV. BLACK CATS ARE ALWAYS LUCKY 75 V. A MATTER OF ADVERTISEMENT 101 VI. “ALL’S FAIR—” 124 VII. HIDDEN TREASURE 144 VIII. A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE 167 IX. THE GREEN EYES OF THE LITTLE BIR...
EPISODE PAGE I. “STRICTLY BUSINESS” 1 II. A WATCHING BRIEF 27 III. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE 53 IV. BLACK CATS ARE ALWAYS LUCKY 75 V. A MATTER OF ADVERTISEMENT 101 VI. “ALL’S FAIR...
2. Part 2“Wait a bit!” urged Captain Gooster. “Of course, I says at once that I’m pained and ’urt by such a suggestion, and that of course I’m only marrying Mrs. Goffley for love. ‘Sure?...
3. Part 3Mr. Clark, emitting a baffled grunt, passed to silent examination of the problem. Mr. Horace Dobb, settling himself deep in his seat, tilted back his head and puffed at his ciga...
4. Part 4“Look here,” went on the other, in some excitement, “I don’t mind admitting to you that I’ve got more than half a mind to have a try after Miss Poskett myself. I wondered why sh...
5. Part 5“Puffect!” declared Horace, with enthusiasm. “A born actor couldn’t do it better, especially when you rolls your eyes up like that. I see it was blowing a bit fresh when I come...
6. Part 6Soon after, Captain Dutt reluctantly announced that he, too, must now depart, and Messrs. Tridge and Lock accompanied him to the nearest draper’s shop, where he sagely selected...
7. Part 7“Things might be worse even then,” said Mr. Dobb. “After all,” he hinted, “one black cat is very like another. And they can’t talk and give things away, can they?”
8. Part 8To all this Mr. Tridge assented with perfect readiness. Mr. Dobb then added a few simple instructions, and, after a single rehearsal, pronounced Mr. Tridge perfect in his role....
9. Part 9And now here, in the cosy back parlour of the little shop in Fore Street, was assembled that quartet upon whom long companionship in the “Jane Gladys” had conferred a sinister b...
10. Part 10“Pickcher?” said Mr. Pincott, setting down the landscape flat on the table, and mopping his forehead. “It’ll be about the finest thing in your collection. I bought it for you, a...
11. Part 11“I was expecting a bit of a legacy,” explained Mr. Lock. “Not a big ’un, mind, but I thought if there was enough to buy me a billiard-table that ’ud satisfy me. It would have ke...
12. Part 12But soon after the commencement of the play there developed changes of temperament, subtle and slight at first, but broadening progressively as the performance continued. And th...
13. Part 13“Don’t you get trying to play any tricks with me!” he warned Mr. Dobb. “We’ve got a understanding, and you stick to it, and I stick to it, and there’s an end of it! I don’t want...
14. Part 14And this he very charitably did. Mr. Tridge, although leaning heavily on his companion’s supportive arm, none the less otherwise ignored the presence of Mr. Sinnett. Moved by co...
15. Part 15And next he frenziedly unlocked the door and plucked the portal open, and plunged out again into the street. Glimpse of a figure in the distance served efficiently as spur, and...
16. Part 16“Mind you, I wouldn’t mind taking up with her,” said Mr. Lock. “Looie-Miss Radling—she’s just my sort, and I don’t mind admitting that I’ve thought a lot about her since I met h...