White Motley: A Novel

I THE GRAND PRIX AT ANDANA II A DARK HORSE GOES DOWN III CONCERNING A DISOBLIGING GHOST IV THE MAN WHO KNEW V THE GHOST TAKES WINGS VI A LESSON UPON SKIS VII AN ULTIMATUM VIII B...

There had been mist in the Rhone valley at dawn and wisps of it still hung about the entrance to the Simplon. Weather prophets detected a good omen here, and stood before the po...

"There isn't any ghost, and so we are going out to look for it," she said; "the doctor wouldn't dress because he thinks he looks nicer in the green tie. The ghost might be femin...

"I should think he has, and wisely too. Barton of the Fusiliers would have shot him if he had stayed. Luton Delayne's the kind of man who doesn't like playing tame pheasant. He...

Calculating the time at a rough guess, he thought he would be at least three hours upon the journey--three hours of desperate endeavour to accomplish what the white wings had at...

"You are one of the worst of men," she said in a low voice. "I thought and believed that you had gone from my life; I now see how much I was mistaken. But I shall live now for n...

Down, down, the skis hissing in the splendid snow, the keen air bringing hot blood to their cheeks, the speed surpassing dreams of flight--so toward the woods which would hide t...

She rejoined that it was a pleasure to help two silly boys in love, and having said it, the boys in their turn perceived that the interview must terminate. Reluctantly, they sho...

"I struck him on the face, and he tried to draw a revolver on me--we were on the plateau, and he went over. If he's hurt, I'll pay compensation. What more do you want?"

As to Bothand and Co. and the alleged fraud, Sir Frederick had little sympathy for the West-End jewellers, the majority of whom he declared to be rascals who battened on the fol...

"By the way," he said--joining her after the passage of a bob sleigh steered by that dashing pilot, Keith Rivers, who rarely broke his collar-bone more than twice in any season-...

"You see," said the former, "we found it was all right, and so we didn't want to trouble you. It's a beastly thing to have to speak about money, and I wouldn't have any girl bel...

For a little while these vain thoughts afflicted him, to give place to others of a very different order. So many strangers were at Andana that he was not surprised to discover a...

All the world about him was astir now and eager for the day. Hatless men had emerged from the Palace Hotel, and were darting hither and thither on skis, or crying the news to gi...

He had crossed the sloping peak of the Matterhorn by this time, and could espy the precipices of the Weisshorn once more. The Valley of Zermatt running down to the pass was but...

Benny had set out in the company of his brother Jack and the Abbe Villari, and the three pursued their way in silence toward the house. Usually, there would have been a beacon l...

She would be a free woman! He repeated the words often, dwelling upon them with an interest which frightened him. Not for the first time did he understand how little victory mea...

"You heard all about it from Susette--yes, I suppose she would tell a priest--And you warned the man this morning?--I wish you'd told me, Abbe--it would have saved me a matter o...

He had not spoken to her, but he knew that she was then in the chapel where the dead lie, and that she was aware of his presence. An instinct told him that it were better they s...