Excerpt: ...scrutiny of the short strip of wall which was all that was revealed to me on the right-hand side. Did it hold the marked brick? My little candle shook with eagerness and it was with difficulty I could see the face of the brick close enough to determine. But fortune favored, and presently my eye fell on one whose surface showed a ruder, scratched cross. It was in the lowest row and well within reach of my hand. If I could move it the box would soon be in my possession-and what might that box not contain! Looking ...
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Excerpt: ...scrutiny of the short strip of wall which was all that was revealed to me on the right-hand side. Did it hold the marked brick? My little candle shook with eagerness and it was with difficulty I could see the face of the brick close enough to determine. But fortune favored, and presently my eye fell on one whose surface showed a ruder, scratched cross. It was in the lowest row and well within reach of my hand. If I could move it the box would soon be in my possession-and what might that box not contain! Looking about, I found the furnace and soon the gas-jet which made attendance upon it possible. This lit, I could set my candle down, and yet see plainly enough to work. I had shears in my pocket. I have had a man's training in the handling of tools and felt quite confident that I could pry this brick out if it was as easily loosened as Bess had given me to understand. My first thrust at the dusty cement inclosing it encouraged me greatly. It was very friable and so shallow that my scissors'-point picked it at once. In five minutes' time the brick was clear, so that I easily lifted it out and set it on the floor. The small black hole which was left was large enough to admit my hand. I wasted no time thrusting it in, expecting to feel the box at once and draw it out. But it was farther back than I expected, and while I was feeling about something gave way and fell with a slight, rustling noise down out of my reach. Was it the box? No, for in another instant I had come in contact with its broken edges and had drawn it out; the falling object must have been some extra mortar, and it had gone where? I did not stop to consider then. The object in my hand was too alluring; the size, the shape too suggestive of a package of folded bonds for me to think of anything but the satisfaction of my curiosity and the consequent clearing of a very serious mystery. Just at this moment, one of intense excitement, I heard, or thought I heard, a stealthy step behind me....
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Stephens, Alice Barber. Good. No Jacket. The mayor's wife fears someone or something, so he hires a companion for her who is tasked with solving the problem. Bumped and rubbed, hinges a bit loose with a ding to the lower corner of the text block.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 9600 shelf. No names, clean text. Tiny bkseller's label verso back cover. Most attractive & fresh--collectible condition! Alice B. Stephens artwork. very good+, paste-on to black & bright gold-stamped olive cloth 389 pgs. Published April 1907.
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book New York: A. Wessels Co., 1908. Reprint. Very Good+/No dustjacket. Clean blue-black cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration, clean unchipped color paste-on illustration, unchipped white lettering on cover; slight chipping to stamped white lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with slight foxing to title page only. Clean bright endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. 389 pgs.
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