Of a very different type was his companion, Julius Burger. He came of a curious blend, a German father and an Italian mother, with the robust qualities of the North mingling strangely with the softer graces of the South. Blue Teutonic eyes lightened...
THE NEW CATACOMB Look here, Burger, said Kennedy, I do wish that you would confide in me. The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedys comfortable room overlooking the Corso. The night was cold, and they had both pulled up their...
I now suggest to you that the other letters from left to right are, M, M, a small d, A, a small d, and then the final B. Yes, I am sure that you are right. I can make out the two small ds quite plainly. What I have read to you tonight, said Dacre, is...
She gazed without wincing upon the wooden horse and rings which had twisted so many limbs and caused so many shrieks of agony. When her eyes fell upon the three pails of water, which were all ready for her, she said with a smile, All that water must...
Just listen to this, said he; it is in the French of the seventeenth century, but I will give a rough translation as I go. You will judge for yourself whether I have solved the riddle or not. The prisoner was brought before the Grand Chambers and Tou...
I expected that you would have a lively night of it, said he. You took it out of me in return, for that scream of yours wasnt a very pleasant sound at two in the morning. I suppose from what you say that you have seen the whole dreadful business. Wha...
I will tell you. You know that I have an agent who is always on the look-out for rarities and curiosities for my collection. Some days ago he heard of a dealer upon one of the Quais who had acquired some old rubbish found in a cupboard in an ancient...
As I held it to the light I observed that at a spot some five inches above the brass tip the narrow neck of the leather funnel was all haggled and scored, as if someone had notched it round with a blunt knife. Only at that point was there any roughen...
He was seated as he spoke at one side of the open fire-place, and I at the other. His reading-table was on his right, and the strong lamp above it ringed it with a very vivid circle of golden light. A half-rolled palimpsest lay in the centre, and aro...
I had known Dacre in England, for my researches in the Assyrian Room of the British Museum had been conducted at the time when he was endeavouring to establish a mystic and esoteric meaning in the Babylonian tablets, and this community of interests h...
