Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
Since money is the fount of all modern romantic adventure, the City of London, which holds more money to the square yard than any other place in the world, is the most romantic of cities. This is a profound truth, but people will not recognise it. There is no more prosaic pers...
They passed northwards through the night of London in the Décauville car, Richard and Teresa side by side on the front seats, old Mrs. Bridget in her black alpaca behind, up Reg...
17. CHAPTER XVII--THE CLOSEThese words, uttered in a tone of grave, sad questioning, were followed by a hush among the group which sat under the trees in the orchard that same afternoon. The two mares bel...
14. CHAPTER XIV--FEATHERSTONE’S RECITALAnd this is what Mr. Simon Lock read, while Mr. Oakley watched his master’s face. The calligraphy of the document was miraculously neat and small, and the thing had all the appe...
2. CHAPTER II--THE CIRCUSA week later--and in the meantime he had been far from idle--Richard Redgrave arrived in Dunstable. It was a warm, sunshiny, sleepy day, such as suited that sleepy town, and sho...
16. CHAPTER XVI--THE INTERVIEWAt the same moment as Simon Lock spoke a window opened in the upper story of Queen’s Farm, and Raphael Craig showed his head. Raphael Craig was fully dressed, and his face had t...
4. CHAPTER IV--MR. PUDDEPHATTRichard saw that Mike was quite as startled as himself at the sound of that appalling crash within the house. But in a moment the Irish man-of-all-work had recovered his wits.
8. CHAPTER VIII--THE PEER’S ADVICEOn the Monday morning Richard presented himself at Queen’s Farm. The day was jocund, the landscape smiled; in the forty-acre field below the house a steam-plough, actuated by tw...
1. CHAPTER I--THE BANKSince money is the fount of all modern romantic adventure, the City of London, which holds more money to the square yard than any other place in the world, is the most romantic...
9. CHAPTER IX--A VISITWell, he determined, with the ferocious resoluteness of a dogged soul, to follow Lord Dolmer’s advice. He said to himself that there ought to be no special difficulty in doing s...
13. CHAPTER XIII--THE VASEThe sensation of the next day’s Stock Exchange was the unsuccessfulness of the attempts of Simon Lock’s brokers--he employed several different firms--to buy La Princesse shares....
6. CHAPTER VI--THE DESIRE FOR SILVERHe threw himself against the door angrily, and, to his surprise, it yielded, and he fell over the river of flame into the interior of the shed. The noise at last startled Raphae...
12. CHAPTER XII--THE NAPOLEONWe have now to watch another aspect of the great struggle which for so many years had been maturing in secrecy and darkness, and the true nature of which was hidden from all sav...
11. CHAPTER XI--END OF THE NIGHTThe body of the detective lay, by chance, lengthwise along the mat at the foot of the stairs. In order to reach the hall, therefore, Juana had no alternative but to step over th...
3. CHAPTER III--CHINK OF COINSI am getting on excellently,’ said Richard to himself as he descended from the car; but his self-satisfaction was momentarily checked by the glance flashed at him by the old man...
15. CHAPTER XV--ARRIVAL OF SIMONAt Queen’s Farm, Hockliffe, the excitations of the terrible evening on which Juana faced her father, and on which Richard and Teresa were betrothed, seemed to have exhausted the...
7. CHAPTER VII--NOLANVery quietly he sauntered to the front-door, which was ajar, and into the portico. He stood there meditating. In front he could vaguely discern the forms of the trees in the orc...
5. CHAPTER V--FIREThe luncheon with Teresa was a pronounced social success. French rather than Irish in character, it was eaten under a plum-tree in the orchard. Micky waited at table with his ha...