J. Storer Clouston

Name: The Heliotrope Hat
Author: J. Storer Clouston

The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

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“The Heliotrope Hat”, published in 1910, is a work by J. Storer Clouston. It explores elements such as Uncle Gregory, heliotrope and Tony.

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ His niece seemed struck with an idea.
“Do you know, Uncle, I don't believe he's a real burglar after all! He doesn't seem to me to have brains enough.”
“Not a burglar!” cried Uncle Gregory. “Then what the blazes is he?”
“A lunatic, evidently.”
“Only a lunatic?”
“But, my dear Uncle Gregory, it's just as clever to catch a lunatic as a burglar.”
His face cleared.
“Yes,” he allowed; “it shows the trap will work even on the poorest material. But what shall we do with him?”
“Put him in the coal-cellar overnight and communicate with his relations to-morrow.” ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ The voice of the heliotrope hat replied:
“I apologise humbly, Uncle Gregory. Yes, you really have caught one! And, oh, look at his mask! He must be the very worst kind.”
Uncle Gregory chuckled with pleasure.
“A perfect specimen! Simply a beauty! Come all of you and look at him.”
Tony's mild blue eyes, gazing upwards through the holes in his mask, beheld a ring of faces, mostly female, staring down into the chasm. He observed that Kate was no longer wearing the heliotrope hat, but otherwise noted nothing of interest. ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ Everything seems to work so smoothly, Uncle Gregory.”
And the accents of her Uncle replied in triumph:
“Isn't it ingenious? Every householder ought to be able to catch his own burglars, I've always said; and now I've done it! By Jingo, what a typical specimen of the criminal class he is!”
Again the voice of Tony rose from the bowels of the earth. ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ He emerged into civilisation again just in time for lunch, leaving Uncle Gregory a prey to conflicting emotions. Though vice-president of the Hampstead Heath Habitation of the Primrose League, he has maintained ever since an enigmatic silence on the subject of the House of Lords. His charming niece always makes a point of wearing a heliotrope hat in Bond Street, declaring that she thinks it once helped her to earn six pairs of lace-fronted accessories. ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ He bent his reproachful eyes (still gleaming through his mask) upon the lady of the heliotrope hat.
“I call this a low-down game,” he observed.
Uncle Gregory's niece recoiled with every symptom of alarm.
“The dreadful creature is speaking to me!” she exclaimed.
“Yes, I am speakin' to you, and you know perfectly well I'm not a dreadful creature, so don't pretend you think I am.”
“You must be,” she replied coldly. “Not even a burglar, if he was decently brought up, would accost a girl he didn't know.”
“H'm,” said Tony. “Well, then, that's not my opinion.” ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ Gregory agreed.
“If you want my candid opinion of you——” said Tony wrathfully.
“We don't. Put the rope round his neck, Thomas, and lead him to the coal-cellar.”
“Oh, what an escape!” sighed the lady of the heliotrope hat, permitting her sparkling eyes to rest for one brief instant on her masked and manacled admirer.
And thus they parted for the night.
In reply to Uncle Gregory's telegram (despatched without any very sanguine expectations) an elderly and singularly suave gentleman appeared in the drawing-room of No. 158, Hornbeam Avenue, in the course of the following morning. ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ His lordship smiled sympathetically.
“If he is the individual I imagine, you are not the first to long for that happy release.”
“He doesn't in the least resemble the sort of person I should imagine your lordship to be acquainted with. ”

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J. Storer Clouston, The Heliotrope Hat (1910)

“ For the first time Algie heard the lady speak.
“We?” she asked, with an air of extreme surprise. “I have really no further use for you, thanks.”
“Oh, but hang it! I'm not goin' to be put off like this. Don't you know I've been carryin' your parcels for more than half an hour? If you don't let me come with you, dash it, I'll have to follow you in another cab.” ”

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