When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story

When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story

Confound that upset! I shall be two minutes behind timeI wish I had walked all the way, instead of trusting to the supposed extra speed of a bus, when the streets are so slippery that horses cannot keep their feet. Thus soliloquised Harley Riddell, ruefully, as he hurriedly picked his way through the somewhat aggressive conglomeration of wagons, hansoms, buses and fourwheelers, which threatened to still further belate his arrival at the establishment of his employers, Messrs. Stavanger, Stavanger and Co., diamond merchants, of Hatton Garden. By dint of an extra spurt from the corner of Holborn Viaduct, he managed to be less unpunctual than he had expected; but, somewhat to his surprise, he fancied that the assistants whom he encountered betrayed signs of suppressed excitement, which were not at all in keeping with the usual decorous quietude of Messrs. Stavangers aristocratic establishment. Still more astonished was he to notice that, whatever the reason for the unusual excitement may have been, it became intensified by his arrival.2 But there was just a tinge of alarm mingled with his astonishment when he perceived that both the Brothers Stavanger and Mr. Edward Lyon, who was the Co. in the business, were here before him. As not one of these gentlemen had ever been known to come to business before eleven oclock in the forenoon, Harley may be excused for thinking it odd that they should all be here on this particular morning before the city clocks had boomed ten, and that, furthermore, they should all stand gazing at him with expressions which suggested suspicion and anathema. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 62824
Author: Corbett, George
Release Date: Aug 2, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English