”The Solmes Ghost”
“THAT’S all, sir. But I, I’ll never forget the way in which you’ve heard my story, father,” his rough voice a little unsteady.
“No, Dick. Come now, let’s drink Miss Nelly;s health. You want to be off, I…
THE SECOND LIFE.
CHAPTER I.
I am a hard man. I wish you to remember that when I tell you my story. Hard, selfish, money-making. My life has been like this December day—bleak and gray, with a bit of red sunshine warming it up…
KENT HAMPDEN[1]
Chapter First
The Package
ONE cold evening in September, nearly seventy years ago, two men were walking up one of the four hilly streets of Wheeling.
Now a large manufacturing centre, Wheeling was then only a quiet village in the…
