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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. 1892 Excerpt: ...IJI, -L Your nerves are shaken; you hardly know what you are saying.' 'I was in Gray's Inn yesterday evening. By accident, at eight.' He spoke in gasps, watching his master curiously. 'By accident-not spying. No--by accident. On my way to my club--at the Salutation. Walking through South Square. Not thinking of anything. Looking about me--careless-like.' 'South Square, Gray's Inn. That is the place where the man Edmund Gray lives: the man we want to find and cannot find.' 'Oh Lord Lord ' exclaimed the clerk. Is it possible?' He lifted his hand and raised his eyes to heaven and groaned. Then he resumed his narrative. 'Coming through the passage, I looked up to the windows of No. 22--Mr. Edmund Gray's Chambers, you know.' 'I believe so.' Mr. Dering's face betrayed no emotion at all. 'Go on; I am told so.' 'In the window I saw Mr. Edmund Gray himself--himself.' 'Curious. You have seen him--but why not?' 'The man we've all been so anxious to find. The man who endorsed the cheque and wrote the letters and got the papers--there he was ' 'Question of identity. How did you know him, since you had never seen him before?' This question Checkley shirked. 'He came down-stairs five minutes afterwards, while I was still looking up at the windows. Came down-stairs, and walked out of the Square--made as if he was going out by way of Baymond's Buildings--much as if he might be going to Bedford Bow.' 'These details are unimportant. Again--how did you know him?' 'I asked the Boliceman who the gentleman was. He said it was Mr. Edmund Gray. I asked the newspaper boy at the Holborn entrance. He said it was Mr. Edmund Gray, and that everybody knew him.' 'So everybody knows him. Well, Checkley, I see nothing so very remarkable about your seeing a man so well known in the Inn. It ..
| ISBN-13 | 9781152348790 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152348795 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 88 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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