Gordon Young

“ Ellis, nearly killed Cora and, glancing a bit, narrowly spared Yang from more than a severe bump. True, three different men could have struck as many different blows, but it looked much as if some one was putting his trust in a club. ”

“ I supposed that Joseph had added that lie to draw Ellis' lightning more inevitably upon my head.
I was more irritated by the newspapers than by anything else. Jack, in a moment of idiocy, had let the reporters get the best of him. True enough, those fellows are likely to get the best of anybody, and it is no trick at all for a pack of them, sharp-eyed, wily-tongued, lightning-witted, to turn a young, emotional lover inside out. They had got him to talk about Cora. ”

“ The telegram requested me to meet the governor at such-and-such a hotel thirty minutes after his train arrived on the following Thursday.
Even I, who have had some experience in the ways of the world and its troubles, was beginning to feel a little bewildered at the rapidity with which complications were developing. ”