- 2023-12-03rising, was gradually flooding the cave of the dragon.
- 2023-12-03Kerry ignored the sensation which his entrance had created,
- 2023-12-03to a club, and just before reaching the first of these
- 2023-12-03“Who are you?” he demanded, speaking with an accent
- 2023-12-03heavy rain set in, which was hardly sufficient to drive
- 2023-12-03He remembered, too, something which his fearless nature
- 2023-12-03at any moment now, and you say you've got a clue to the
- 2023-12-03been immediately telephoned to Limehouse by Zani Chada's
- 2023-12-03To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
- 2023-12-03upon the edge of a disaster. I appreciate your sense of
- 2023-12-03“Hallo!” he called. “Can you please tell me something?”
- 2023-12-03as he had rarely known. He turned to the inspector in charge,
- 2023-12-03fit, often wandering along in the great flower garden that
- 2023-12-03“Ye'll want ye'r Burberry and ye'r thick boots,” she
- 2023-12-03Chada controlled powerful influences, he knew well. But,
- 2023-12-03detached himself, walking slowly along westward and staring
- 2023-12-03up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
- 2023-12-03the hour. As a matter of fact, the man performed the journey
- 2023-12-03got some kind of big influence behind them. Yet you wander
- 2023-12-03Sir Noel Rourke was an Anglo-Indian, and his prejudice
- 2023-12-03Max crossed the threshold hard upon her heels. Three descending
- 2023-12-03unlike the voice of Lou Chada. “Who brought you here?”
- 2023-12-03had prompted him to forget: he remembered how, just as
- 2023-12-03entirely to blame. Before you leave we shall understand
- 2023-12-03in finding any place to pitch our tents, for it was spring-tide,
- 2023-12-03it at a time when it had lain impenetrably in Trafalgar
- 2023-12-03telephone message which the episodes of the night had prevented
- 2023-12-03“Oh,” said the other, unable to conceal his relief,
- 2023-12-03Obviously, the tide was rising; and, after seeking vainly
- 2023-12-03“I don't want to understand you,” said Kerry bluntly.
- 2023-12-03which was the Chief Inspector's constant companion on wet
- 2023-12-03growing wider and wider. “The boy answered, Dan. He set
- 2023-12-03wooden steps. He drew himself closely to these, and directed
- 2023-12-03his wife's failure to answer the telephone? It might mean
- 2023-12-03she had forfeited because of this mad quest of adventure.
- 2023-12-03by some regarded as a native myth, but actually existing
- 2023-12-03heavy rain set in, which was hardly sufficient to drive
- 2023-12-03above all, that slow and alluring smile, appealed to the
- 2023-12-03say, it's a strange house, and Zani Chada has a stranger
- 2023-12-03of the sweet security of her home, of the things which
- 2023-12-03about the premises by night. He came and went as he saw
- 2023-12-03to occupy. You enjoy great domestic happiness, and you
- 2023-12-03brewing, Durham,” he said. “I think I shall wait.”
- 2023-12-03woman's reputation preserved if you and I, as men of the
- 2023-12-03He strove to peer about him, but the feeble ray of the
- 2023-12-03Curtains she saw of peacock-blue; and in a tall, narrow
- 2023-12-03country mansion, which to-day was closely invested by dockland
- 2023-12-03The yellow hands of Zani Chada clutched the metal knobs
- 2023-12-03reason to believe her dead, and that it was because of
- 2023-12-03the street to enable one, a French coupe, to draw up before
- 2023-12-03frame of mind which was not familiar to him. He was undecided
- 2023-12-03which was unfamiliar to her, but in a voice which was not
- 2023-12-03in all the finer points of big game hunting. Of an evening
- 2023-12-03Indeed, he paced up and down the room like a wild beast
- 2023-12-03twenty yards from the house a coupe was drawn up, and by
- 2023-12-03“You are Lady Rourke?” the man repeated. “Before
- 2023-12-03heavy rain set in, which was hardly sufficient to drive
- 2023-12-03Certain it is that Kerry left the Eurasian's house in a
- 2023-12-03it and don't suggest it, or when I get to you I'll break
- 2023-12-03Kerry stepped to the edge of the pavement and spat out
- 2023-12-03the moving ray. Inhaling sibilantly, Max leaped after her.
- 2023-12-03Kerry ignored the sensation which his entrance had created,
- 2023-12-03came in contact with that of Kerry. In a sense it was a
- 2023-12-03Kerry chewed furiously for ten momentous seconds, then:
- 2023-12-03man more common interests than the cultured guests of Bwana
- 2023-12-03When Kerry left Bond Street the mistiness of the night
- 2023-12-03He replaced the receiver and paused for a moment, reflecting.
- 2023-12-03back from his low brow; eyes strangely like the eyes of
- 2023-12-03said that his boys were resting and gaining strength after
- 2023-12-03Fierce they were as ever, but introspective in expression.
- 2023-12-03“My time is valuable,” he said rapidly. “Come to
- 2023-12-03it was an expression of cold anger. Then the intruder spoke.
- 2023-12-03innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
- 2023-12-03He stepped swiftly into the bar, and, as he had anticipated,
- 2023-12-03to be dreaded by the rats of Limehouse. London's peculiar
- 2023-12-03open a swing door, and stepped into a long, narrow passage.
- 2023-12-03He ducked rapidly, almost touching the muddy water with
- 2023-12-03could subdue it. He had the wide-open, fighting blue eyes
- 2023-12-03“Well, I was standing over on the other side of the street.
- 2023-12-03when he detected a sound of pursuit. Like a flash he turned,
- 2023-12-03and was clear of the oily water, now, and upon a sort of
- 2023-12-03to be dreaded by the rats of Limehouse. London's peculiar
- 2023-12-03“Very good,” answered the other, and Kerry, tucking
- 2023-12-03Certain it is that Kerry left the Eurasian's house in a
- 2023-12-03He ducked rapidly, almost touching the muddy water with
- 2023-12-03constable in the force to recognize “Red Kerry” at
- 2023-12-03back or don't telephone within the next hour, you will
- 2023-12-03with the case known as “the Limehouse inquiry,” Durham
- 2023-12-03out to be lignite of little value, in the sandstone (probably
- 2023-12-03On his advent at the school of which he was now one of
- 2023-12-03“It is,” rapped Kerry. “Unless there are tunnels
- 2023-12-03“Can't you?” said Kerry, tilting his bowler farther
- 2023-12-03and ran like a hare, her yellow silk dress gleaming in
- 2023-12-03out the words in a manner little short of ferocious. He
- 2023-12-03was not a good one, admittedly. “But,” murmured Kerry
- 2023-12-03“Ah!” The long, dark eyes regarded her unmovingly.
- 2023-12-03often among the blooms beneath the great moon—the black-haired,
- 2023-12-03Mygale, its sting was more quickly and certainly fatal
- 2023-12-03Fan-tan was in progress at one of the tables, the four
- 2023-12-03A moment later: “Hallo! Yes,” he said. “Chief Inspector
- 2023-12-03and the land was wooded down to the water’s edge. In
- 2023-12-03“As you wish. I have no occasion to detain you long.”
- 2023-12-03Some little conversation ensued between manager and patron,
- 2023-12-03She rose as he entered, with horror in her comely face.
- 2023-12-03To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
- 2023-12-03door and entered. He had noted a light in the dining room
- 2023-12-03“My name is Peters, sir. Inspector Preston knows me.”
- 2023-12-03been drugged. She was in Limehouse, at the mercy of a man
- 2023-12-03with stating that they were poor natives of the place,
- 2023-12-03Somewhere far away in the distance of the big house a gong
- 2023-12-03“Ah!” There was no alteration of pose, no change of
- 2023-12-03way—a vapour which could not only be seen, smelled and
- 2023-12-03about the premises by night. He came and went as he saw
- 2023-12-03blood-stained mud all about the body of the murdered man.
- 2023-12-03So mused Durham, standing cold and uncomfortable in the
- 2023-12-03“No, no,” muttered Peters. “Only I've got an idea
- 2023-12-03in which they are here mentioned, expressing their respective
- 2023-12-03back on to the pavement. “Lose that French bus, and I'll
- 2023-12-03about in the fog without even a gun in your pocket.”
- 2023-12-03from the door of the house took him out of sight of the
- 2023-12-03that she might honestly give him the answer that he demanded.
- 2023-12-03here you've been a marked man. These murders in the Chinatown
- 2023-12-03and many coarse-voiced conversations were in progress;
- 2023-12-03“I think I'll 'phone the wife,” he said abruptly. “She'll
- 2023-12-03and phlox that drew him to the perfumed air of the garden,
- 2023-12-03could have done. On the purely scholastic side his report
- 2023-12-03of offer to buy back the evidence you think I've got, and
- 2023-12-03“Ah!” There was no alteration of pose, no change of
- 2023-12-03which swirled fully three feet of water, which, slowly
- 2023-12-03take about the murder? Durham will be back with the body
- 2023-12-03Snatching a revolver from his pocket he fired shot after
- 2023-12-03the letters “L. C.” Oddly enough, it was the corner
- 2023-12-03his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
- 2023-12-03Still through half-closed eyes Zani Chada watched his visitor,
- 2023-12-03himself that his apprehensions had been groundless. “But
- 2023-12-03was interviewing Zani Chada, and at about this time that
- 2023-12-03In the afternoon we paid our respects to the governor —
- 2023-12-03were men on duty at the back and at the front of the house.
- 2023-12-03in the room. A woman was laughing raucously as Kerry entered,
- 2023-12-03“Captain. Egerton's,” he replied slowly. “But what
- 2023-12-03might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-03police point of view; and while evidence of this kind often
- 2023-12-03of offer to buy back the evidence you think I've got, and
- 2023-12-03Zani Chada, wearing a blue robe, sat in a cushioned chair,
- 2023-12-03a quiet old man, who, in his appearance and manner of life,
- 2023-12-03“I think I'll 'phone the wife,” he said abruptly. “She'll
- 2023-12-03to conceal his jubilation—almost immoral, his wife had
- 2023-12-03of offer to buy back the evidence you think I've got, and
- 2023-12-03her arms, and laughed shrilly, insanely. Then she turned
- 2023-12-03It had tricked him, this floating murk of London; for,
- 2023-12-03She was in a long, rather lofty room, which was lighted
- 2023-12-03found to be puzzling. He had long, untidy gray hair brushed
- 2023-12-03or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the
- 2023-12-03had been chattels. Too well she recognized that his passion
- 2023-12-03the voice of the operator: “Have they answered yet?”
- 2023-12-03“And great sorrow may be spared to others,” concluded
- 2023-12-03Was it, though, the ever beautiful blossoms of hollyhocks
- 2023-12-03his skin was as yellow as a guinea, and his gaunt, cleanshaven
- 2023-12-03Kerry shot out a small, muscular hand and grasped the speaker's
- 2023-12-03lighted cars bore parties supperward; less pretentious