... carelessly, and our attention was at once arrested. The subject treated on that special page was a visit to the dentist. To speak plainly, this dentist was a nasty fellow. His backchat would not have been tolerated for two minutes save by one in the agonies ...

... Miss Thursleigh Speaking. I've been trying to get you for ages, I said. They said there was no reply. That is not very surprising, answered Alys Thursleigh, considering I have only this minute come in from the theatre. Who is speaking But where's Mrs ...

... my livin' at it. I recognised in him a William de Morgan, who had taken to his art late in life. I could see he liked my speaking of it as an art. I take a pride in what I do, he told me. When I first did the lion lyin' down there was a gentleman come ...

... reason as I go to first nights, answered Lady Anning, detaching herself towards Mr. Cribbage. As I turned a little later to speak to a friend of Alys, I heard Mrs. Cecil Wainwright's voice in my ears. Mr. Wantage, she whispered, it is really too bad ...

... to-night. Two stalls. There was a sudden clamour from the telephone beside him. Hullo Hui, lo Y es. Up-to-Date Theatre speaking. Who Oh, yes. Well, but you know what the Guv'nor is. I say, you know what the what? Oh, well, send the boy round. And I ...

... 've told everything you could to the police. It isn't evidence, because you, like everyone else, saw nothing, and, legally speaking, know nothing about it at all. That 's exactly the way I stand, inter jected the Banker testily. I know nothing about it ...

... which you will shortly understand that some member of the Polman household is guilty. It is obviously an inside job, so to speak. The Polman household consists of old Vladimir Polman, his young second wife, their only child (the little girl I have already ...

... there was little he did not know of Jallagar and its inhabi tants, human or otherwise. A very silent man, but when he did speak he spoke with authority. I have known several Chinese, he told them, who certainly possessed magical powers, or some thing ...

... It is, however- how do you say a pretty bauble. That 's what I think. But I feel rather as if I 'd stolen it. He tried to speak lightly, but his expression told of a con science much more troubled than the words admitted. But, no M. Vence expostulated ...

... Menang as out-of-place and strange as a rural dean in a jungle where tigers prowled. After a time Landor felt impelled to speak. You are a visitor here he asked, with a touch of sadness, for it seemed a dangerous pastime for such a little man to be straying ...

... he was startled when a voice bade him good-morning. Looking up hastily, he found a stranger by his side. You '11 excuse me speaking to you, perhaps, said the unknown, but you seem to like Suralengleng. I wonder would you like it if you lived here He subsided ...

... the midst of civilisation he waved a thin hand round the lounge of the Europe and within a stone's throw, in a manner of speaking, the mysterious East bowing to a pagan god in the hidden depths of the jungle. He drew a deep breath, appre ciating this ...