The People's Home Journal (Lupton) edition
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Digital Library @ Villanova University
(Note: missing part of pages 1-2 and 15-16) |
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| Series: | The People's Home Journal (Lupton) v. 9 no. 8 (page 13) |
| Item: | A Detective's Strange Story |
| Author: |
Bennett, Emerson, 1822-1905
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| Date: |
August, 1894 |
| First Sentence: | While sitting alone in my London office one dull, dark, drizzly, October afternoon, indulging in the luxury of a quiet smoke, the door opened in a timid, hesitating manner, and an old, wrinkled, gray-headed, gray-bearded man, poorly and shabbily dressed, shuffled in, and throwing the glance of what was still a keen restless, suspicious, black eye over my person, said, in a subdued and what is sounded like a humble tone, that he had called to see Mr. George Larkin. |
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