A POOR RULE
In gilt letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five. And with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrubs-women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building. A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows.
Robbins, fifty, soemthing of an overweight beau. And addicted to first nights and hotel palm-rooms, pretended to be envious of his partner's commuter's joys.
"Going to be something doing in the humidity line tonight," he said. "Your out-of-town chaps will be the people, with katydids and moonlight and long drinks and things out on the front porch."
Hartley, twenty-nine, serious, thin, good-looking, ner-vous, sighed and frowned a little.
"Yes," said he, "we always have cool nights in Floral-hurst, especially in the winter."
A man with an air of mystery came in the door and went up to Hartley. "I've found where she lives," he announced in the portentous half-whisper that makesthe detective at work a marked being to his fellow men.
Format | :Kitap |
Barkod | :9786055430542 |
Yayın Tarihi | :2015-12-12 |
Yayın Dili | :İngilizce |
Orjinal Adı | :A Poor Rule (Stage 2) |
Baskı Sayısı | :4.Baskı |
Sayfa Sayısı | :64 |
Kapak | :Karton |
Kağıt | :2.Hamur |
Boyut | :135 X 195 |
Yazar | : | O. Henry |