Arthur Somers Roche

Name: The Voice on the Telephone
Author: Arthur Somers Roche

The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

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“The Voice on the Telephone”, published in 1923, is a work by Arthur Somers Roche. It explores elements such as Pelham, Tryon and Bozell.

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ Dickenson darted across the road: with the silent tread that years of stalking animals had bred in him, he raced down the road and opened fire at the rear of the touring car. From the cries of the bandits it was easy to learn that the trappers now considered themselves the trapped. Dickenson's maneuver made them believe that they were surrounded. They gave up the battle at once. Pelham and Tryon, firing from behind Tryon's car, could not tell whether or not their shots had been as accurate as those of Dickenson. They know only that the battle ended as suddenly as it had begun. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ A ventriloquist was on the bill. Two nights ago Tryon rebuked the man for trying to listen to our conversation in a restaurant.”
“A ventriloquist, eh?” said Slim. “And a little later some one with a voice just like Tryon's calls you up on the phone——”
“Slim, you're the quickest man I know. It doesn't sound crazy to you?” asked Pelham.
“There ain't anything sounds foolish to me if it has to do with the Gray Ghost,” Slim declared. “But what about Lem Higgins?”
“Go to see him tonight, if you know where he lives. He must know Bozell—that's the ventriloquist. Get him to introduce you to Bozell. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ Kings could not have bought the services of Slim Dickenson unless he liked them. He was more than a servant: he was an intimate friend, and even at times a highly valued counselor. So Pelham did not rebuke, even in his thought, the comment of Dickenson. As a matter of fact, he agreed silently that Jerry was a bit reckless. They did not speak again until after they had passed White Plains. Then Pelham ordered Dickenson to slow down.
“I don't know Just where Mr. Tryon will meet us. Keep your eyes open for a car drawn up alongside the road. Just beyond a cross street and around a curve.” ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ Pelham,” he read. “I am an artist, not a bungling thief. I cannot see how you could imagine that I would be guilty of leaving so clear a trail. And yet, according to the newspapers, you believe that I, who deal only in money and jewelry, would annoy myself with so clumsy a booty as furs. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ But Slim resisted Higgins' insistent desire to make Slim known to vaudeville's elite.
“There's only one guy in the world that you can introduce me to, Lem,” he told the guide-actor. “Do you know a ventriloquist named Samuel Dozell? He's playing at the Mirror this week. “
Higgins eyes his friend curiously. “Now, what interest have you in Sam Bozell?” he asked. “Your boss send you?”
“What do you mean by that?” demanded Slim.
Higgins' weatherbeaten face took on a shrewd expression.
“Well, Mr. Pelham's a detective and Bozell's a crook. That ain't putting two and two together ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ It was Dickenson's desire to pursue the fleeing foe, but by the time that the three men had taken stock, so to speak, and found that none of them had been injured, the murder car, racing through the night with its lights dimmed, was beyond pursuit. It might have turned on any one of a dozen cross-roads.
“The Gray Ghost is changing his tactics,” commented Tryon. “We've said that we were safe from this sort of thing; shows how much we know about the Gray Ghost.”
Pelham shook his head in bewilderment. “It doesn't seem like his work,” he replied.
He turned to Dickenson. “Drive my car in ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ The precious furs had been carried across the yard into the building so recently rented by the novelty company. Thence the furs had been transferred to the trucks outside.
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REPRESENTATIVES of Bennett & Darius retained Pelham on the case. Furs dropped in the yard during the hasty transfer led him to investigate the vacant building opposite. That building, save for scores of empty boxes, was bare. inquiry of the owner disclosed the name of his tenant. But when the operatives of the Tryon agency went to the address given by that tenant the man was not there, never had been there. ”

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Arthur Somers Roche, The Voice on the Telephone (1923)

“ You will find the property of Messrs. Bennett & Darius in the rooms upstairs.
“I resent your stupid assumption that I, who never fail in anything I undertake, should have attempted your death without success. ”

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