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The Monk of Hambleton By: Armstrong Livingston (1885-) |
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By ARMSTRONG LIVINGSTON
NEW YORK RAE D. HENKLE CO. Inc. Publishers 1928
COPYRIGHT, 1928, By RAE D. HENKLE Co. INC.
Manufactured in the United States
THE AUTHOR Armstrong Livingston was born in New York City and was educated at St.
George's School, Newport, R. I; and in Europe. He began a writing
career in 1918. He has traveled extensively and for the past two years
he and Mrs. Livingston have made their home in Algiers with occasional
trips to Paris and London. He is the author of the following
books all mystery stories:
THE MONK OF HAMBLETON
THE MYSTERY OF THE TWIN RUBIES
THE JU JU MAN
ON THE RIGHT WRISTS
LIGHT FINGERED LADIES
THE GUILTY ACCUSER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. SAYING IT WITH FRUIT
II. THE HEAD OF THE TRAIL
III. A WARNING
IV. THE LEGEND OF THE MONK
V. MISS LUCY'S MAN
VI. AN AUNT IN NEED
VII. OUT OF THE PAST
VIII. TWO VICTIMS OF THEFT
IX. SIMON SEEKS ADVICE
X. CREIGHTON TAKES THE CASE
XI. CHECKERS AND CHICANE
XII. STARLIGHT ON STEEL
XIII. A DEDUCTION OR TWO
XIV. LUCY VARR
XV. TREASURE TROVE
XVI. A WOMAN OF NOTE
XVII. AN ARREST Is MADE
XVIII. SOME OLD MEN ARE OUT
XIX. AMONG THOSE PRESENT
XX. H. ANTEUS KRECH
XXI. TWILIGHT
XXII. A CRY IN THE NIGHT
XXIII. THE DARKEST HOUR
XXIV. BEYOND THE STARS
THE MONK OF HAMBLETON
I: Saying It With Fruit The weather beaten buildings that comprised the plant of the Varr and
Bolt tannery occupied a scant five acres of ground a short half mile
from the eastern edge of the village of Hambleton. They were of
old type brick construction, dingy without and gloomy within, and no
one unacquainted with the facts could have guessed from their
dilapidated and defected exteriors that they represented a sound and
thriving business. It was typical of Simon Varr, that outward air of
shabbiness and neglect; it was said of him that he knew how to exact
the last ounce of efficiency from men and material without the
expenditure of a single superfluous penny. An eight foot board fence surrounded the property on three sides, the
fourth being bounded by a sluggish, disreputable creek whose fetid
waters seemed to crawl onward even more slowly after receiving the
noisome waste liquor from the tan pits. At only one point, that
nearest the village, did any of the buildings touch the encircling
fence. There its sweep was broken by the facade of a squat two story
structure of yellow brick which contained the offices of the concern
and the big bare room in which a few decrepit clerks pursued their
uninspiring labors. Admission to this building, and through it to the
yard, was by way of a stout oaken door on which the word Private was
stencilled in white paint. Just above the lettering, at the height of
a man's eyes, a small Judas had been cut a comparatively recent
innovation to judge from the freshness of its chiselled edges. On the afternoon of a warm, late summer day a number of
men twenty five or thirty were loitering outside this door in various
attitudes of leisure and repose. They were a sorry, unkempt lot,
poorly clothed and unshaven, sullen of face and weary eyed. When they
moved it was languidly, when they spoke it was with brevity, in tired,
toneless voices. All of them looked hungry and many of them were, for
it was the end of the third week of their strike. The faintest flicker of animation stirred them as they were presently
joined by a roughly dressed man who sauntered up from the direction of
the village, though it is safe to suppose that some of them were moved
to interest less by the newcomer himself than by the fact that he was
carrying a huge ripe tomato in one hand. He nodded a greeting that was
returned by them in kind, and it was some moments before the most
energetic of their number crystallized their listless curiosity in a
single question. "Any news, Charlie?" "Nothin' to git excited about." "I seen you talkin' to Graham a while ago... Continue reading book >>
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