Edgar Wallace

“ Maggerson and he are very great friends,” explained Gerald, pacing up and down the room. “In fact, if John Chapelle hadn't gone in for politics he would have been a very passable scientist. They were at school together, Chapelle and Maggerson, and I should imagine it is a sort of luncheon party in his honor. Maggerson has been nine months in the United States and in Mexico, and apparently he has been going in for biological study. He's an extraordinary all-round man. I've got a letter here from Schaffer. Do you read German?”
Jimmy shook his head. ”

“ His hair was untidy, floating as he ran. The pajamas jacket was open at the neck and showed a woolen undershirt. He was breathing heavily as though he had run a considerable distance, and the fact that he had attracted attention in the street was evident when in pursuit of him came two policemen and a small crowd of curious onlookers,
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