- 2023-12-02numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble
- 2023-12-02I want plain speaking. I ask you for help and you answer
- 2023-12-02will be a Hindu. You know what to say. Oh, my Nicol, my
- 2023-12-02and he judged them to be those of Ormuz Khan and his secretary.
- 2023-12-02then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-02in hand! Before Stokes had time to move, the door closed
- 2023-12-02face. His gaze seemed to be directed, not so much upon
- 2023-12-02car entered the lane and turned into the drive of Hillside.
- 2023-12-02in finding any place to pitch our tents, for it was spring-tide,
- 2023-12-02“And you are not present last night! Now, do you understand?
- 2023-12-02large. She stood quite still, twisting his card between
- 2023-12-02the dynamic force beneath the placid surface exhibited
- 2023-12-02reward that they would win from him if they carried his
- 2023-12-02Investigation Department, and Detective Inspector Wessex
- 2023-12-02careful. Whatever Fire-Tongue may be, its other name is
- 2023-12-02to discern the occupants. The house itself was also unilluminated.
- 2023-12-02wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
- 2023-12-02behind, he found himself in the hilly Surrey countryside,
- 2023-12-02must accept the presence of hidden enemies surrounding
- 2023-12-02I have searched these chambers and searched them thoroughly.”
- 2023-12-02his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
- 2023-12-02the kitchen, and the lobby afford any more satisfactory
- 2023-12-02“You can’t play tricks on me. I’ve got my duty to
- 2023-12-02finger tips. He had recognized the voice to be the voice
- 2023-12-02pouring into the cave of the dragon through the open door
- 2023-12-02“I’ll do all I can,” Nicol Brinn assured him. “But
- 2023-12-02him here in this very room that the pair of us were walking
- 2023-12-02he had come, Detective Inspector Wessex proceeded to 236
- 2023-12-02numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble
- 2023-12-02“Because I know it is so. It does not matter how I know.”
- 2023-12-02Dusk was beginning to fall and, although the nature of
- 2023-12-02“Detective Sergeant Stokes,” he said, “you are not
- 2023-12-02but he had not been as idle as he appeared to have been.
- 2023-12-02disappearance seemed to have come as a terrible blow. More
- 2023-12-02into the lane again. He did not fail to note that, the
- 2023-12-02Brinn, hoarsely. “It was through the Times of India that
- 2023-12-02and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island,
- 2023-12-02“perhaps he will shout murder from one of the windows.
- 2023-12-02“The result of the analysis may prove that the chief
- 2023-12-02figure; but he could not detect the slightest shadow of
- 2023-12-02his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-02Wessex had thus expressed himself with the best intentions,
- 2023-12-02turned and bowed in the direction of a large armchair.
- 2023-12-02intended to console the girl, to whom the news of Harley’s
- 2023-12-02unlocked the door at the foot of the steps. He turned,
- 2023-12-02He seated himself beside her on the settee, and held her
- 2023-12-02to where Naida, wide-eyed, watched him. “Admit Detective
- 2023-12-02“Hello, is that you, Mason?” he said. “Have the racer
- 2023-12-02December 1st. — We steered for the island of Lemuy. I
- 2023-12-02“Look here, sir,” said the detective, suddenly, “the
- 2023-12-02“I don’t expect you to be frank with me, Detective
- 2023-12-02of the world and into the worst spots of those bad lands.
- 2023-12-02On went the Eurasian, up to her waist in the flood, with
- 2023-12-02the ex-parlourmaid, a shabby street hawker appeared in
- 2023-12-02lane regained, the chauffeur headed, not toward Lower Claybury,
- 2023-12-02Nicol Brinn stared blankly at the speaker. “He told him
- 2023-12-02the moving ray. Inhaling sibilantly, Max leaped after her.
- 2023-12-02made an early dinner, he set off for Pall Mall at ten minutes
- 2023-12-02“He was in the service of some gentleman in the country;
- 2023-12-02“I have seen my danger since the evening that Mr. Paul
- 2023-12-02often among the blooms beneath the great moon—the black-haired,
- 2023-12-02Investigation Department, and Detective Inspector Wessex
- 2023-12-02him at noon. Only one who knew him very well could have
- 2023-12-02of the same peculiarity as the others: there were blinds
- 2023-12-02his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow
- 2023-12-02that, whereas Mr. Paul Harley is an unofficial investigator,
- 2023-12-02and more Wessex found himself to be groping in the dark.
- 2023-12-02She raised her face, looking up to him pathetically. “I
- 2023-12-02church bell by guess. The arrival of our boats was a rare
- 2023-12-02evidence to justify me in putting you under arrest?”
- 2023-12-02of his heart seemed to make his body throb to the very
- 2023-12-02“In fact, the whole business looks very suspicious to
- 2023-12-02in an iron sluice gate. The Eurasian had passed it, but
- 2023-12-02at his visitor with eyes which expressed nothing but a
- 2023-12-02from her shoulders, and, raising her head, extended both
- 2023-12-02time he failed to observe anything. Then, against the comparatively
- 2023-12-02reward that they would win from him if they carried his
- 2023-12-02in which Detective Sergeant Stokes was confined. Stokes
- 2023-12-02I knew that,” said he, “maybe I could help. I told
- 2023-12-02Never for a moment did he relax his vigilance. Observing
- 2023-12-02the catacombs. Max glanced at the white face of Helen Cumberly,
- 2023-12-02In the meanwhile, Nicol Brinn, having secured the door
- 2023-12-02undertaken his duties, which had proved more or less tedious
- 2023-12-02came in and repeated what had taken place on the previous
- 2023-12-02damp freshness in the air of the passage, and a sort of
- 2023-12-02for a moment and then replaced it in the right and not
- 2023-12-02behind, he found himself in the hilly Surrey countryside,
- 2023-12-02transfigured features, the woman allowed the cloak to slip
- 2023-12-02Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
- 2023-12-02which communicated with the study, walked out into the
- 2023-12-02“You don’t want me to believe there are English members?”
- 2023-12-02rambling Jacobean building, did he attempt to take cover.
- 2023-12-02numbers. I never saw anything more obliging and humble
- 2023-12-02on the edge of hell. I don’t like to say it, and you
- 2023-12-02characteristic being that the blinds were drawn in all
- 2023-12-02years,” he said, “I have tried to die, because without
- 2023-12-02golden dragon. Max pulled the keys from his pocket, and
- 2023-12-02“Eight-twenty-five,” he muttered, and glanced across
- 2023-12-02“Oh,” muttered the detective sergeant, taken aback
- 2023-12-02Wessex’s instructions with regard to Nicol Brinn had
- 2023-12-02might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-02Detective Inspector Wessex stood beside the Burmese cabinet,
- 2023-12-02other approach, he descended to the path and stole toward
- 2023-12-02Wessex, concealing his disappointment, continued: “You
- 2023-12-02Obviously, the tide was rising; and, after seeking vainly
- 2023-12-02like a man who is walking in his sleep. Except for the
- 2023-12-02his hands with a groping movement The woman laughed shudderingly.
- 2023-12-02he never knew when he was beaten. Beyond doubt, now, he
- 2023-12-02and not Spaniards and that they were in sad want of tobacco
- 2023-12-02himself for a moment. The official machinery of Scotland
- 2023-12-02“But the link with what, Mr. Wessex?” asked Phil Abingdon.
- 2023-12-02Behind the motionless figure the Alaskan ermine and Manchurian
- 2023-12-02with stating that they were poor natives of the place,
- 2023-12-02explained. He grew icily cool, master of his every faculty.
- 2023-12-02more profound. As a matter of routine rather than with
- 2023-12-02figure to fire the imagination. But Nicol Brinn seemed
- 2023-12-02his boys had deserted, for a hunting party from the bungalow
- 2023-12-02sentences. Darkness wrapped him about, so that no one watching
- 2023-12-02Wessex,” he continued, “I don’t tell you to do whatever
- 2023-12-02“For seven years I have tried to forget. I have been
- 2023-12-02and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
- 2023-12-02like a man who is walking in his sleep. Except for the
- 2023-12-02he never knew when he was beaten. Beyond doubt, now, he
- 2023-12-02don’t hamper my movements between now and this time tomorrow.”
- 2023-12-02reward that they would win from him if they carried his
- 2023-12-02Sergeant Stokes at eight-twenty-six, and then lock the
- 2023-12-02lane. Suddenly came an idea that was born of emergency.
- 2023-12-02glorious wells of sadness, seeming to mirror a soul that
- 2023-12-02was the especial pride and joy of My Dear and Meriem. The
- 2023-12-02face. His gaze seemed to be directed, not so much upon
- 2023-12-02“Maybe, but it is no affair of yours to interfere with
- 2023-12-02torpedo was approaching slowly from the direction of Buckingham
- 2023-12-02The other he ordered straight westward with orders to halt
- 2023-12-02he climbed rapidly up the tree from which he had watched
- 2023-12-02“Oh, my big American sweetheart,” she whispered, and,
- 2023-12-02it opened, it was furnished in a severely simple fashion,
- 2023-12-02his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-02So he sends me to tell you that a car will be waiting at
- 2023-12-02me except you. Now I have got you, and I am going to keep
- 2023-12-02then, holding her averted face very close to his own, he
- 2023-12-02designs to a successful conclusion. One party he moved
- 2023-12-02about ever moved away from those Indian hills was a possibility
- 2023-12-02“But you must—you must! I want to make you understand
- 2023-12-02“I’ll answer your question,” said Wessex, and the
- 2023-12-02and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
- 2023-12-02be announced, he was requested to wait in the lobby for
- 2023-12-02“My God!” he whispered. He drew his automatic swiftly
- 2023-12-02you would like to ask me, and there are questions I would
- 2023-12-02For three weeks Hanson had remained. During this time he
- 2023-12-02her hands, uttering a subdued cry of greeting that was
- 2023-12-02to seven. A rakish-looking gray car resembling a giant
- 2023-12-02Suddenly his arms were about her like bands of iron, and
- 2023-12-02to sleep, rose and wandered out into the garden. The Hon.
- 2023-12-02glorious wells of sadness, seeming to mirror a soul that
- 2023-12-02he had progressed in this fashion when his hidden watchers
- 2023-12-02and more Wessex found himself to be groping in the dark.
- 2023-12-02Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
- 2023-12-02Some two hours after Paul Harley’s examination of Jones,
- 2023-12-02In one long stride Brinn was through the doorway, telephone
- 2023-12-02stunned him. He came down like an acrobat—left foot,
- 2023-12-02before. For what was he waiting, or for whom? He heard
- 2023-12-02is. But I have information which, if I knew where he was,
- 2023-12-02date has been placed in my hands, together with all his
- 2023-12-02her eyes fell. “Sit here beside me,” she said. “I
- 2023-12-02then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-02Followed an interval of unbroken silence. Not even the
- 2023-12-02“Thanks,” said Wessex, “I’ll do my best. It’s
- 2023-12-02Nicol Brinn did not turn around. “In,” he repeated.
- 2023-12-02Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
- 2023-12-02through the small study, and into the famous room where
- 2023-12-02Lifting the woman in his arms lightly as a baby, he carried
- 2023-12-02He stepped aside and bowed as a tall, slender woman entered
- 2023-12-02and the girl's mind was in such a turmoil that she had
- 2023-12-02in the left corner of his mouth. Even to the trained eye
- 2023-12-02it isn’t troubling you too much, I should like to know
- 2023-12-02“I can’t remember the time. Just after a gentleman
- 2023-12-02slowly toward the north—he said nothing of the party
- 2023-12-02“I am!” Stokes spoke angrily. “While you kept me
- 2023-12-02result of Mr. Paul Harley’s investigations right up to
- 2023-12-02“Oh, it took him fairly between the eyes. There is no