Category: Novels
ELDRIDGE WALCOTT paused in front of the great building; he looked up and hesitated and went in. He crossed the marble lobby and passed through the silent, swinging doors on the opposite side and stepped into a softly lighted café. He had never been in Merwin’s before, though h...
The wrong that he had done Rosalind--even in his thought--made him tender of her. He did not buy a crimson flower to take home to her. But a week later he called one day at his...
3. Part 3“I’ve never mentioned it--except to that detective, and I didn’t tell him--any more than I had to--He didn’t seem to need much telling--” he said dryly. “He seemed to sense just...
1. Part 1ELDRIDGE WALCOTT paused in front of the great building; he looked up and hesitated and went in. He crossed the marble lobby and passed through the silent, swinging doors on the...
4. Part 4All the way home Eldridge’s heart laughed. Would she like it?... She had played so softly... she would listen like that--and he would be with her.... He could not keep the ticke...
5. Part 5“No.” Her lip waited on it--and closed. “There _was_ some one--” she spoke slowly. “It seems a queer thing to tell. It had no beginning and no end!” She waited, still looking at...