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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. After his interview with Eve, Loder retired to the study and spent the remaining hours of the day and the whole span of the evening in work. At one o'clock--still feeling fresh in mind and body--he dismissed Greening and passed into Chilcote's bedroom. The interview with Eve, though widely different from the one he had anticipated, had left him stimulated and alert. In the hours that followed it there had been an added anxiety to put his mind into harness, an added gratification in finding it answer to the rein. A pleasant sense of retrospection settled upon him as he began slowly to undress, and a pleasant sense of interest touched him as, crossing to the dressing-table, he caught sight of Chilcote's engagement-book--taken with other things from the suit he had changed at dinner-time, and carefully laid aside by Renwick. He picked it up and methodically turned the pages. It always held the suggestion of a lottery--this dipping into another man's engagements and drawing a prize or a blank. It was a sensation that even custom had not dulled. At first he turned the pages slowly, then by degrees his fingers quickened. Beyond the fact that this present evening was free, he knew nothing of his promised movements. The abruptness of Chilcote's arrival at Clifford's Inn in the afternoon had left no time for superfluous questions. He skimmed the writing with a touch of interested haste, then all at once he paused and smiled. "Big enough for a tombstone!" he said below his breath, as his eyes rested on a large blue cross. Then he smiled again, and held the book to the light. "Dine 33 Cadogan Gardens, 8 o'c. Talk with L.," he read. He stood for a moment pondering on the entry, then once more his glance reverted to the cross. "Evidently meant it to be s...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151180033
- ISBN 13 9781151180032
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages100
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