Simon Shawn

"... He pressed a button near the switch. A portiere rustled, and a voung man approached his bed; a short, thin, pale, fair young man, active and deferential. “MV tea. Shawn. Draw the curtains and open the windows.” “Yes. slr,” said Slmon Shawn. In an instant the room was brilliantly revealed as a great circular apartment, magnificently furnished, with 12 windows running around the circumference beneath the dome. The virginal zephyrs of a ..."

"... in the waiting room, isn't thore?” The patrol admitted that there was, but his manner hinted a low opinion of the utility of the police. He stood mute while Simon Shawn told the telephone receiver what had occurred in the bowels of the earth beneath hugo's “Wait a minute,” said the telephone, and then, after a pause: “Are you there? i'm ..."

"... CHAPTER “Seen neither of them, slr. She put note ln my hand as she passed me, 1 CHAPTER VI. A LAPSE FROM AN IDEAL. F YOU please, slr,” sald Slmon Shawn, when he brought hugo's tea the next morning. am Informed that a inan has secreted himself on the summit of the dome.” Hugo, lying on hls back and Ignoring even ..."

"... had her li us trat ia permission, nay. his command, to purchase a silvered fox stole a she could. On the way to her goal she encountered by chance Simon Shawn, anri it occurred that a temporary block compelled her to halt before lmm The tiso gazed at each other and Simon looked away, flushing. It was plain Hiat, though acquainted, they were not on speaking terms. The fact was that their silence covered a domestic drama which had arisen as the ..."