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Excerpt: ...rigid attention, felt a quick impulse of disappointment. I have rung the bell for my own maid, she said. She will show you out of the place. Don''t let any one see you, if you can help it. And to-morrow? he asked. You will lunch with me? I will be at the Golf Club, she promised, at one o''clock. Granet was conducted almost stealthily down the stairs and into the avenue. Half-way to the gate he paused to listen. He was hidden from sight now by the gathering twilight and the rolling mists. From behind the house came the softly muffled roar of the tide sweeping in, and, with sharper insistence, the whirr of machinery from the boathouse. Granet lit a cigarette and walked thoughtfully away. Just as he climbed into the car, a peculiar light through the trees startled him. He stood up and watched. From the top of the house a slowly revolving searchlight played upon the waters. CHAPTER XIX It was a very cheerful little party dining that night at the Dormy House Club. There was Granet; Geoffrey Anselman, his cousin, who played for Cambridge and rowed two; Major Harrison, whose leave had been extended another three weeks; and the secretary of the club, who made up the quartette. By-the-bye, where were you this afternoon, Captain Granet? the latter asked. You left Anselman to play our best ball. Jolly good hiding he gave us, too. Went out for a spin, Granet explained, and afterwards fell fast asleep in my room. Wonderful air, yours, you know, he went on. I slept like a top last night, Major Harrison declared. The first three nights I was home I never closed my eyes. Granet leaned across the table to the secretary. Dickens, he remarked, that''s a queer-looking fellow at the further end of the room. Who is he? The secretary glanced around and smiled. You mean that little fellow with the glasses and the stoop? He arrived last night and asked for a match this morning. You see what a miserable wizened-up looking creature he is? I found... E. Phillips Oppenheim, Books, Fiction and Literature, Kingdom Of The Blind Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153634427

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