Fred M. White, The Master Criminal — The Rosy Cross (1898)
“ A few days later in the Central Hotel, New York, an angry and sore—with more senses than one—millionaire was having an anything but pleasant interview with the Chief of Police, the Bishop of Croydon and Lady Ella.“I can assure you, Mr. Potter,” said the official suavely, “your friends here are as innocent as yourself. And that they are really what they represent themselves to be, I am in a position to positively prove.” ”
Fred M. White, The Master Criminal — The Rosy Cross (1898)
“ Potter groaned.“Many thieves are well educated,” said the Chief. “Indeed, a robbery of this kind could only have been planned and carried out by a man of marked intelligence. Probably he gleaned what you were going to do with your diamond, and the coming of the Bishop and Lady Ella to Chicago—which he could glean from the papers—gave him the inspiration. A man like that is always ready to turn opportunities to account.” ”
Fred M. White, The Master Criminal — The Rosy Cross (1898)
“ Vansittart muttered, in a self-satisfied tone, “I calculate that will burn for fifty-six hours; and nobody is likely to come along and disturb it. If they do, so much the worse for Potter. If all goes well and he does meet with an accident here, he won’t come to any harm. And what a pleasant time the Bishop and Lady Ella will have afterwards.”Vansittart returned to his horses and drove back to the depôt where he had alighted. There was some time to wait for a western train, but it came at length; and long before Chicago was astir, the adventurer was back again. ”
