日期：2023-08-07 We were not able to return to Johannesburg that night. The shells were coming over pretty fast, and I gathered that we were now more or less cut off, owing to the rebels having obtained possession of a new part of the suburbs. Our place of refuge wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 With his last words Colonel Race had swung away and left us. I stood staring after him. Harrys voice recalled me to myself. Anne, forgive me, say you forgive me. He took my hand in his and almost mechanically I drew it away. Why did you deceive me?... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 That was two years ago. We still live on the island. Before me, on the rough wooden table, is the letter that Suzanne wrote me. Dear Babes in the WoodDear Lunatics in Love, Im not surprisednot at all. All the time weve been talking Paris and frocks... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Tommy, old thing! Tuppence, old bean! The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocked the Dover Street Tube exit in doing so. The adjective old was misleading. Their united ages would certainly not have totalled forty... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The moment was not quite so triumphant as it ought to have been. To begin with, the resources of Tommys pockets were somewhat limited. In the end the fare was managed, the lady recollecting a plebeian twopence, and the driver, still holding the vari... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The next day passed slowly. It was necessary to curtail expenditure. Carefully husbanded, forty pounds will last a long time. Luckily the weather was fine, and walking is cheap, dictated Tuppence. An outlying picture house provided them with recreat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Well, said Tuppence, recovering herself, it really seems as though it were meant to be. Carter nodded. I know what you mean. Im superstitious myself. Luck, and all that sort of thing. Fate seems to have chosen you out to be mixed up in this. Tommy i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 A veil might with profit be drawn over the events of the next half-hour. Suffice it to say that no such person as Inspector Brown was known to Scotland Yard. The photograph of Jane Finn, which would have been of the utmost value to the police in tra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Whittington and his companion were walking at a good pace. Tommy started in pursuit at once, and was in time to see them turn the corner of the street. His vigorous strides soon enabled him to gain upon them, and by the time he, in his turn, reached... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Taken aback though he was by the mans words, Tommy did not hesitate. If audacity had successfully carried him so far, it was to be hoped it would carry him yet farther. He quietly passed into the house and mounted the ramshackle staircase. Everythin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 When Tommy set forth on the trail of the two men, it took all Tuppences self-command to refrain from accompanying him. However, she contained herself as best she might, consoled by the reflection that her reasoning had been justified by events. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Tuppence betrayed no awkwardness in her new duties. The daughters of the archdeacon were well grounded in household tasks. They were also experts in training a raw girl, the inevitable result being that the raw girl, once trained, departed elsewhere... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Dressed appropriately, Tuppence duly sallied forth for her afternoon out. Albert was in temporary abeyance, but Tuppence went herself to the stationers to make quite sure that nothing had come for her. Satisfied on this point, she made her way to th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Friday and Saturday passed uneventfully. Tuppence had received a brief answer to her appeal from Mr. Carter. In it he pointed out that the Young Adventurers had undertaken the work at their own risk, and had been fully warned of the dangers. If anyt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Sir James brushed past Julius and hurriedly bent over the fallen woman. Heart, he said sharply. Seeing us so suddenly must have given her a shock. Brandyand quickly, or shell slip through our fingers. Julius hurried to the washstand. Not there, said... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Nothing was more surprising and bewildering to Tuppence than the ease and simplicity with which everything was arranged, owing to Sir Jamess skilful handling. The doctor accepted quite readily the theory that Mrs. Vandemeyer had accidentally taken a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Julius sprang up. What? I thought you were aware of that. When did she leave? Let me see. To-day is Monday, is it not? It must have been last Wednesdaywhy, surelyyes, it was the same evening that youerfell out of my tree. That evening? Before, or af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 From a darkness punctuated with throbbing stabs of fire, Tommy dragged his senses slowly back to life. When he at last opened his eyes, he was conscious of nothing but an excruciating pain through his temples. He was vaguely aware of unfamiliar surr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The troubles of the future, however, soon faded before the troubles of the present. And of these, the most immediate and pressing was that of hunger. Tommy had a healthy and vigorous appetite. The steak and chips partaken of for lunch seemed now to... 阅读全文>>