... to the motive if an accident, we could discover no trace of its occurrence. The police failed to solve the mystery, and we did not rest content with ...
... work, is it not. I said a little ungraciously, I am afraid. I saw a look of anxiety and disappointment come into his eyes, and I hastened to add: ...
... member of my club, and Reuben Clinch smiled, and the smile was supercilious. There was suddenly revealed to me a nature masterful and rather intolerant. ...
... tell me about your discovery, I said. And he began. Frankly, the man was wonderful. He had enthusiasm, he had confidence, and he was determined ...
... which had begun with a boy tending sheep on an upland farm of Australia, and was to end in the multiplication of factories, and the capture of the entire ...
... said my friend genially as I entered his office you have deserted Parnassus and the streams of Helicon. Sit down.. I told Speedy the story ...
... the oil in wool would produce this startling revolution in the industry.. Undoubtedly, said Speedy. But everybody has had a shot at it. No ...
... thought-that was another matter. His face gave us no clue, and he did not speak. We waited upon his decision in a great suspense. I say we, for indeed ...
... Speedy looking out through the windows upon the Surrey woods, and seeing nothing whatever of the foliage as we passed. He was a stoutly built, ...
... lapse of time. The big dining room, with its polished mahogany, its dark hangings, its air of comfort, the round table, with its decanters and silver, ...
... asked Pratt. How many are in the secret.. Only myself, answered Clinch. Let's see. said Pratt. He looked towards me, and looked away again. ...
... matters had progressed. There were quite twenty people present, most of them, so far as I could gather from the conversation which went on about me, ...
... night was mild, and Speedy walked with me a little of my way along Oxford Street. We had gone perhaps a quarter of a mile when a man came up behind ...
... once, just for a second, my old suspicion flashed across my mind. Was Clinch an impostor. I asked myself, and I only asked the question to dismiss ...
... believed it possible that he could have been so moved by the loss of anyone who was not very dear to him. But Clinch had thrown his spell upon us ...
... was fixed. The house by the Marble Arch was given up, and the great monopoly of cloth became once more a dream. Speculation was rife as to the reason ...
... I heard the other reply, 'It would mean ruin, but it will never come off. You'll see.' I didn't take much notice of the words at the time, sir, but I ...
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