Name: Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street
Author: Harold MacGrath

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ When Forbes dropped a pencil these days, he reached for a fresh one, having recognized the futility of crawling on his hands and knees over rugs in search of something which had ceased to exist.
Every day now for a week, between three and four in the afternoon, she had gone by, slim, trig, supple. She looked like Somebody; she must be Somebody, for nobody but Somebody could have carried her head the way she did. Where her journey began, where it ended, he had never bothered himself to inquire. It satisfied his needs to expect her at such a time each day and to realize his expectations. ”

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ The puppy growled an invitation for a romp, which the artist accepted; and a great time they had, sliding over rugs, banging against the walls, behind tapestries, over sofas and chairs and divans, till at last Forbes, dizzy and breathless, subsided upon a divan. The tireless puppy jumped up beside him and licked his face. He was a very valuable dog. ”

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ Popularity had its drawbacks; one had continually to find new props to keep the thing from tumbling about one's ears. Popularity, the new-collar, the new-hat, the new-shoe kind of popularity, which changes completely every six months, which has to be renewed and twisted about and readjusted. ”

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ This was the phase which puzzled and baffled the police. Now he (Mr. Amateur) held to the theory that the thief was a man who moved in the exclusive circles (two more words Forbes hated) from which the jewels had been purloined. Even the police admitted that he possessed an intimate and accurate knowledge of the habits of his victims. But the genius of the man was made manifest in his ability to wait. Was there a woman? ”

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ Births, deaths and divorces; murder, robbery and graft; strikes, wars and plagues; the subject-matter never varied, only the names and places could be called news. He read with lazy interest a warmed-over yarn about the clever gentleman-thief who had baffled the metropolitan police for nearly a year. A well-known amateur detective was giving the reporter an exposition of his views. Here was an artist. (Forbes crackled the newspaper peevishly: was there anything left to which this term had not been applied? Anybody who did his work well was an artist. Rot!) ”

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Harold MacGrath, Deuces Wild — I. The Woman Across the Street (1913)

“ I THE WOMAN ACROSS THE STREET THIS is a story of two stories, separate yet inseparable, of wheels agog and of wheels awhir, the frolic and the business of life. What a woman's switch is to her glory, this tale is to that ”

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