The Bandbox

"But not Iff alone--there's myself. Have you paused to consider what would have happened to me if the inspector had happened to find that necklace in the hat? Heavens knows how...

"It's business--important," said Staff. "I'll have to leave you here at once. Only"--he watched Ismay closely out of the corners of his eyes--"if I were you I wouldn't waste any...

When the janitor and the taxicab operator between them had worried all his luggage upstairs, Staff paid and tipped them and thankfully saw the hall-door close on their backs. He...

"Everything," he said softly--"everything. Not so far as Ephraim is concerned; I'll be frank with you--you needn't fear Ephraim's hurting you, much, should you attempt to escape...

Kneeling at the head of the staircase and bending over, with an arm round the banister for support, she could see a portion of the kitchen. And what she saw only confirmed the t...

So their ride uptown was marked by its atmosphere of distant and dispassionate civility. They spoke infrequently, and then on indifferent topics soon suffered to languish. In du...

"I don't intend to," Staff told him bluntly. "I'm going to meet the taxi at the door, get into it with her, and take that infernal necklace directly to Miss Landis, at her hotel."

"Oh, quite the swell mobsman--Raffles and Arsène Lupin and all that sort of thing rolled into one. His name's Ismay--Arbuthnot Ismay. Clever--wonderful, they say; the police hav...

"Oh, it's hardly worth talking about, dear boy. Only--there's the ingenue rôle; you've given her too much to do; she's on the stage in all of my biggest scenes, and has business...

In one, she was being helped out of the motor-car. Then somebody was holding her arm and guiding her along a path of some sort. Planks rang hollowly beneath her feet, and the ha...

She advanced to the edge of the drive, paused, listening with every faculty alert. There was no sound but the muted soughing of the night wind in the trees--not a footfall, not...

"Yessir." Reluctantly Milly restored the creation to its tissue-paper nest. "And what would you wish me to do with it now, sir?" she resumed when at length the ravishing vision...

Captain Cobb was scowling thoughtfully. Manvers wore a look of deepest chagrin. Jane's jaw had fallen and her eyes seemed perilously protrudant. Alison was leaning gracefully ba...

What had she meant by her veiled references to this mysterious person in Paris, who was to board the steamer at Queenstown? How had she come by so much personal knowledge of him...

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But his movement had acted as the shock needed to rouse the girl out of her stupor of despair. With a cry she gathered herself together and jumped to her feet. He put forth a ha...

Book list at end: Apparent typesetting errors noticed by the transcriber were fixed as follows: "Bar 20" changed to "Bar-20" "Mulfird" changed to "Mulford" (for Bar-20 Days) clo...