The Disappearance of Kimball Webb

Elsie Powell had been nearly a week in confinement, under the care and at the mercy of the woman she called Mrs. Pike, but who was in reality the wife of Bass, the valet and gen...

Fenn Whiting was not unversed in feminine ways. And, especially did he count himself familiar with the ways of Elsie Powell. And though the average woman would make a threat of...

"Not unless you choose to take it so." But the man's steely grey eyes were commanding rather than imploring, and his thin lips were set in a straight line that bespoke determina...

Coley Coe sat in his somewhat eccentric looking den, in an attitude characteristic of his working hours. He occupied a big over-stuffed chair, and while his head and shoulders r...

"In retreat, not in hiding," Courtney corrected her. "I am exceedingly busy, and in order to work uninterruptedly, I've set up an office in this house, and Miss Lloyd is helping...

Mrs. Powell soon returned, utterly unable to do her part in the awful task of telling people not to come to the wedding. Their exclamations and questions were too much for her....

"It would be hard to beat that for unlikeliness!" said Harbison, speaking very seriously, and entirely ignoring Mrs. Webb's disdainful expression. "Now, see here,--how about tur...

Though slow to anger, Elsie was a little firebrand when roused. And the more she thought over the matter the more furious she grew at the game that had been played on her. The f...

"Of course," he went on,--they were talking of Miss Elizabeth Powell's will, "the whole thing is pretty ridiculous,--freak wills are,--but it's none of my quarrel that she shoul...

The public generally were divided into two classes, those who thought he had decamped to avoid his wedding and those who thought he had been abducted for some undiscovered reason.

Elsie Powell's nature was generous. She gave of herself to all with whom she came in contact, and gave freely and willingly; time, thought, and sympathy as well as more material...

But Elsie's determination to get a special detective was not easily carried out. She visited several who were recommended to her by agencies, but none seemed sufficiently sure o...

The first time that he met the other members of the Powell family he quite took them by storm. His big, blue eyes had a frank, even impudent stare, but his smile was so winning...

"Lord!" he cried, "I'm sick and tired of looking for a mousehole when the mousehole isn't here! Not a baby mouse could get in or out of this box,--let alone a swashbuckler villa...

And then Nurse Loring told how she had received a message from Elsie saying she had been obliged to return to New York suddenly, that she had gone with some friends, and for Mis...

She made an impressive picture, as she swept the telephone from its little table, even while she sank into the attendant chair. For Henrietta Webb was a striking-looking woman,-...

"After such an exhibition of foolishness, one could scarcely wonder that I can't look upon you as a desirable mate for my talented brother,--but I am willing to make allowances...

Kimball Webb didn't look at all like a man who would disappear mysteriously. Though I'm not sure mysteriously disappearing men, as a class, have physical characteristics in comm...