Then they explored the rambling conservatories and broken-down stables which, after a bit of restoration, might hold a car. From here they descended into a dingy abyss of basements. The cold down here was a shock to Vera and she stood looking round on stony emptiness. There were gray walls with r...
Things were blowing up for a showdown and no mistake. I waited a moment or two until I heard Beryl’s footsteps move away from the hall, followed by Hilton’s heavier tread. They’d gone into the lounge. I crept up the cellar steps, let myself out into the hall and closed the...
he had certainly not exaggerated. Elsa found it took her half an hour the following morning to trace it, walking in and out of the closely congested streets of Chelsea, most of them rendered all the more dingy by the merciless light of the summer sun; then at length she found Dell Road and stood ...
Throughout that five years he had loomed amid the cascading cosmic energies like some creation from Dante’s Inferno, clothed in his huge insulated and protective suit with the immense gauntlets and cowl-like helmet. At other times he had not been so cautious, particularly when the manipulation of...
Meadows home and then attended to the matter of his car, went back to the Timperley residence to inform Elsie of what had happened. She and her mother were both still in the drawing room and they listened in silence to all Peter had to say. “It’s all so crazy,” he finished...