This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ..."I should say this is a bit stranger than a drama. The man named in this letter as the father of the girl abandoned by Delancy is the name of the man who taught me the billiard trick. He was the sort of a soldier of fortune a man like Delancy would be likely to meet and associate with, living in Paris, so it all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ..."I should say this is a bit stranger than a drama. The man named in this letter as the father of the girl abandoned by Delancy is the name of the man who taught me the billiard trick. He was the sort of a soldier of fortune a man like Delancy would be likely to meet and associate with, living in Paris, so it all appears plain, now, why he suspected me when he saw me do the trick at the colony club billiard table." "And," said Karl, who had continued his study of the letter, "Delancy, while in Paris this time, sought old companions of the man, evidently trying to confirm his suspicions that the American he already knew his father-inlaw had taught the trick to was none other than a man known as Courvatel." "I don't care whether he learned it or not," Dick replied. "We have as much on Herbert Delancy, and more, than he has on us, --that is if we are not following a wrong trail. The first thing to do is to find the ex-priest. Can you find him, Karl?" "I, or one of my men here," answered Karl, referring to his strange staff of house servants, "will find him if he is in New York, as this letter says he is." "Find him!" Dick commanded. The next time Courtney met Delancy he looked him squarely in the eyes with menacing contempt. Delancy met the look steadily for a few seconds, then his eyes wavered and turned aside. "And if Karl finds the man," Dick said, telling the story to Betty, "the tables will be turned. It will not be Herbert Delancy asking Virginia's hand with a threat of exposing us as the Courvatels; but it will be Dick Courtney who will deliver the threat speech." "No," interrupted Betty, "let me have the word, you the action." Richard s...
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated red cloth stamped in black and white. Illustrated by J.V. McFall. Slightly cocked with fading on the side and wear on the edges else very good with previous owner name on the front free endpaper.