| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: finished off some imperative work. By ten o'clock I was free, and
for the twentieth time I consulted my train schedule. At five
minutes after ten, with McKnight not yet in sight, Blobs knocked at
the door, the double rap we had agreed upon, and on being admitted
slipped in and quietly closed the door behind him. His eyes were
glistening with excitement, and a purple dab of typewriter ink gave
him a peculiarly villainous and stealthy expression.
"They're here," he said, "two of 'em, and that crazy Stuart wasn't
on, and said you were somewhere in the building."
A door slammed outside, followed by steps on the uncarpeted outer
office.
The Man in Lower Ten |
