|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: to find out is just who these people were, where they came from, if
Bronson knew them, and how Miss West became entangled with them.
She may have married Sullivan, for one thing."
I fell into gloom after that. The roan was led unwillingly into the
weather, Hotchkiss and I in eclipse behind the blanket. The
liveryman stood in the doorway and called directions to us. "You
can't miss it," he finished. "Got the name over the gate anyhow,
'The Laurels.' The servants are still there: leastways, we didn't
bring them down." He even took a step into the rain as Hotchkiss
picked up the lines. "If you're going to settle the estate," he
bawled, "don't forget us, Peck and Peck. A half-bushel of name and
The Man in Lower Ten |
