This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... PART TWO FRIDAY THERE used to be a convention followed by writers of novels--it is indeed still followed by some--that when they had succeeded in working up to what they considered a moment of breathless interest in their story, they should break off abruptly and start a fresh chapter dealing with a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... PART TWO FRIDAY THERE used to be a convention followed by writers of novels--it is indeed still followed by some--that when they had succeeded in working up to what they considered a moment of breathless interest in their story, they should break off abruptly and start a fresh chapter dealing with a totally new set of characters placed in a totally new scene. Thus for example if Chapter LXIV ended with the words "the licking tongues of flame were creeping nearer and nearer to the powder-barrel. At this moment a terrible shriek was heard," then it was a point of honour that Chapter LXV should begin: "Flora awoke refreshed after her night in the hermit's cave, and after a draught of warm milk provided by the good old man's herd of goats, prepared to continue her journey." It is possible that authors, who are an innocent race, really imagined that this system heightened the interest in their narratives instead of merely irritating their readers to a point of frenzy, or at the best compelling them to skip in order to find out more about the powder-barrel and the terrible shriek. And as it is well known that once a reader starts skipping he never stops, but takes longer and wilder leaps each time, I do not propose to adopt this scheme in the present instance, but, on the contrary, to raise the curtain again on very much the same scene as that on which it fell at the end of the previous part. Jim slept long and soundly after his tiring day. At half-past seven Mrs. Pretty mounted the stairs as usual, carrying (also as usual) a small black bag, and to her surprise found the front door of the flat shut. It may be necessary to explain here briefly that Jim's staff consisted of Lush, who slept on the premises and acted as combined valet and butler, ...
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