One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York
By Tracy, Louis
Classic work by Tracy, Louis.
Table of Contents
II. EIGHT O'CLOCK III. EIGHT-THIRTY IV. AN INTERLUDE V. NINE O'CLOCK VI. NINE-THIRTY VII. TEN O'CLOCK VIII. TEN-THIRTY IX. ELEVEN O'CLOCK X. MIDNIGHT XI. O...
DUSK "There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams! Good old New York, as per schedule. . . . Gee! Ain't she great?" The slim, self-possessed youth of twenty hardly seemed to ...
EIGHT O'CLOCK From one aspect, Curtis's sense of dread and horror was merely altruistic, the natural welling forth of the springs of human sentiment. If the man now lying stark a...
EIGHT-THIRTY They stood in silence, listening to the footsteps of Marcelle on the parquet floor of the passage. The outer door was opened, and a murmur of voices reached them ind...
AN INTERLUDE The appearance on the scene of the Earl of Valletort and Count Ladislas Vassilan at a moment which, though undeniably critical, might be described as either opportune...
NINE O'CLOCK A new note had crept into the voice of the taxi-cab driver when he stopped his vehicle in Madison Avenue and sought Curtis's further commands. No longer did he addre...
NINE-THIRTY Chance is often a skilled stage manager, and chance had arranged a really effective scene in the hall of the Central Hotel. The Earl of Valletort seemed to be somewha...
TEN O'CLOCK Curtis had seized the opportunity while Hermione was in her room before dinner to rub the blood-stained sleeve of the overcoat with a wet cloth. He had not, of course...
TEN-THIRTY The Earl of Valletort turned on his heel, and went out abruptly. Therefore, he missed Steingall's first words to the hotel clerk, which would have given him furiously t...
ELEVEN O'CLOCK "In multitude of counselors there is safety," says the Book of Proverbs. Usually, the philosophy attributed to Solomon exhibits a soundness of judgment which is un...
MIDNIGHT After a quick journey by New York's unrivaled system of rapid transit, the three men alighted at Spring Street, and a couple of minutes' brisk walk brought them to a larg...
ONE O'CLOCK Devar had the nimble wits of a fox, and the blood which raced in his veins was volatile as quicksilver. The same glance which showed him the gray automobile stealing ...
TWO-THIRTY A. M. Few men or women of sympathetic nature, and gifted with ordinary powers of observation, can go through life without learning, at some time or other in the course ...
WHEREIN LADY HERMIONE "ACTS FOR THE BEST" A dejected and disheveled super-clerk was called on to face a new crisis soon after he had apparently got rid of most of the persons conc...
THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING Evans, the police captain of the 23rd Precinct, had a fairly long story to hear from McCulloch. The roundsman did not spare himself in the recital. ...
WHEREIN THE PACE SLACKENS--BUT ONLY FOR A FEW HOURS "Say, old man," muttered Devar, gazing fixedly at Brodie's broad shoulders as Broadway unrolled its even width before the car o...
A PARLEY Nature was kind that morning. A flood of sunshine greeted Curtis when he turned into Fifth Avenue with the detective, as the latter had suggested that they might walk a ...
WHEREIN JOHN AND HERMIONE BECOME ORDINARY MEMBERS OF SOCIETY But the phase passed like a disturbing dream. Hermione herself laughed the notion to scorn: and a ready opportunity f...