A. E. W. Mason

Name: The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2
Author: A. E. W. Mason

The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

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“The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2”, published in 1924, is a work by A. E. W. Mason. It explores elements such as Haslitt, Betty Harlowe and Hanaud.

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Haslitt a little absently.
Jim, however, had enthusiasm enough for both. His chivalry was fired, as is the way with lonely men, by the picture his imagination drew. The little girl, Betty Harlowe! What age was she? Twenty-one! Not a day more. She had been wandering with all the proud indifference of her sex and youth, until suddenly she found her feet caught in some trap set by a traitor, and looked about her; and terror came and with it a wild cry for help.
"Girls never notice danger signals," he said. "No, they walk blindly into the very heart of catastrophe." ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Now Betty Harlowe doesn't come into the picture at all until two years after Simon and Jeanne-Marie were married, when it became clear that they were not likely to have any children. No, the love-affairs of Simon Harlowe are sufficiently remote for us to leave them aside."
Jim Frobisher accepted the demolition of his idea with a flush of shame.
"I was a fool to think of it," he said.
"Not a bit," replied Mr. Haslitt cheerfully. "Let us look at every possibility. That's the only way which will help us to get a glimpse of the truth. I resume, then. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ Haslitt, who seemed to be reading of this history in the pattern of the carpet, looked up.
"Yes, I see what you mean," he said, replying to Jim's movement. "Yes, there might have been some sort of affair between those two before they were free to marry. But nowadays, my dear Jim! Opinion takes a more human view than it did in my youth. Besides, don't you see, this little secret, to be of any value to Boris Waberski, must be near enough to Betty Harlowe—I don't say to affect her if published, but to make Waberski think that she would hate to have it published. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ So she writes to the first name in the title of the firm, and writes to him as a man. That's it, Jim," and the old man rubbed his hands together in his satisfaction.
"A girl in terror wouldn't get any comfort out of writing to an abstraction. She wants to know that she's in touch with a real person. So she writes, 'Dear Mr. Frobisher.' That's it! You can take my word for it."
Mr. Haslitt walked back to his chair. But he did not sit down in it; he stood with his hands in his pockets, looking out of the window over Frobisher's head. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ He's one of our clients."
"Yes," said Frobisher. "I remember him—a rather finicking person in Grosvenor Square."
"That's the man. He's a friend of Hanaud and absurdly proud of the friendship. He and Hanaud were somehow mixed up in a rather scandalous crime some time ago—at Aix-les-Bains, I think. Well, Ricardo will give you a letter of introduction to him, and tell you something about him, if you will go round to Grosvenor Square at five this afternoon."
"Capital!" said Jim Frobisher. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ He kept the appointment, and was told how he must expect to be awed at one moment, leaped upon unpleasantly at the next, ridiculed at a third, and treated with great courtesy and friendship at the fourth. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The House of the Arrow — Chapter 2 (1924)

“ A Cry for Help "SIMON HARLOWE," he began, "was the owner of the famous Clos du Prince vineyards on the Côte d'Or to the east of Dijon. He had an estate in Norfolk, this big house, the Maison Grenelle in Dijon, and a villa at Monte Carlo. But he spent most of his time in Dijon, where at the age of forty-five he married a French lady, Jeanne-Marie Raviart. There was, I believe, quite a little romance about the affair. Jeanne-Marie was married and separated from her husband, and Simon Harlowe waited, I think, for ten years until the husband Raviart died."
Jim Frobisher moved quickly and Mr. ”

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