"She's here! I thought she would be. She's one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium."The gentleman thus addressed—a man of middle age and a member of the most exclusive clubs—turned his opera glass toward the spot designated, and in some astonishment retorted:"She? Why those are the Misses Pratt and—""Miss Violet Strange; no other.""And do you mean to say—""I do—""That yon silly little chit, whose father I know, whose fortune I know, who is seen everywhere, and who is called one of the season's belles is an agent of yours; a—a—""No names here, please. You want a mystery solved. It is not a matter for the police—that is, as yet,—and so you come to me, and when I ask for the facts, I find that women and only women are involved, and that these women are not only young but one and all of the highest society. Is it a man's work to go to the bottom of a combination like this? No. Sex against sex, and, if possible, youth against youth. Happily, I know such a person—a girl of gifts and extraordinarily well placed for the purpose. Why she uses her talents in this direction—why, with means enough to play the part natural to her as a successful debutante, she consents to occupy herself with social and other mysteries, you must ask her, not me. Enough that I promise you her aid if you want it. That is, if you can interest her. She will not work otherwise."
Populaire auteurs
Cram101 Textbook Reviews (948) J.S. Bach (447) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (305) Collectif (268) Schrijf als eerste een recensie over dit item (259) Doug Gelbert (238) Princess of Patterns (211) Charles Dickens (209) R.B. Grimm (197) Carolyn Keene (187) Jules Verne (183) Philipp Winterberg (180) William Shakespeare (174) Youscribe (172) Lucas Nicolato (169) Edgar Allan Poe (166) Herman Melville (166) Anonymous (165) Gilad Soffer (164) Robert Louis Stevenson (159)Populaire gewichtsboeken
418 KB 425 KB 435 KB 459 KB 445 KB 439 KB 386 KB 413 KB 493 KB 432 KB 455 KB 471 KB 421 KB 451 KB 485 KB 472 KB 416 KB 369 KB 419 KB 427 KB