Mary Roberts Rinehart

Name: The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

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“The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues”, published in 1910, is a work by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It explores elements such as Hawes, Letitia and detective.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ Every doctor and every lawyer knows that trick. "As far as the name goes, perhaps you would better tell me the trouble first. Then, if I think it indispensable, you can tell me."
She acquiesced to this and sat for a moment silent, her gaze absently on the windows of the building across. In the morning light my first impression was verified. Only too often the raising of a woman's veil in my office reveals the ravages of tears, or rouge, or dissipation. My new client turned fearlessly to the window an unlined face, with a clear skin, healthily pale. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ So Allan Fleming was lost! A good many highly respectable citizens would hope that he might never be found. Fleming, state treasurer, delightful companion, polished gentleman and successful politician of the criminal type. Outside in the corridor the office boy was singing under his breath. "Oh once there was a miller," he sang, "who lived in a mill." It brought back to my mind instantly the reform meeting at the city hall a year before, where for a few hours we had blown the feeble spark of protest against machine domination to a flame. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ IN my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound, or the silk sweep of Mamie Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenue, or the staidly respectable black and middle-aged skirt of the client whose husband has found an affinity partial to laces and fripperies, and has run off with her—all the wearers are ladies, and as such announced by Hawes. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ I asked. "It need not be known outside of the office, and this is a sort of confessional anyhow, or worse. People tell things to their lawyer that they wouldn't think of telling the priest."
Her color was slowly coming back, and she smiled.
"My name is Fleming, Margery Fleming," she said after a second's hesitation, "and my father, Mr. Allan Fleming, is the man. Oh, Mr. Knox, what are we going to do? He has been gone for more than a week!" ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ A lawyer who is worth anything is always a partisan, I suppose, and I never hear of a man deserting his wife that I am not indignant, the virtuous scorn of the unmarried man, perhaps. "But you will have to tell me more than that. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ But I am not a detective, Miss Fleming. Don't you think we ought to have one?"
"Not the police!" she shuddered. "I thought you could do something without calling in a detective."
"Suppose you tell me what happened the day your father left, and how he went away. Tell me the little things too. They may be straws that will point in a certain direction."
"In the first place," she began, "we live on Monmouth Avenue. There are just the two of us, and the servants: a cook, two housemaids, a laundress, a butler and a chauffeur. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ When I read of women wanting to—to vote and all that, I wonder if they know what it means to have to be polite to dreadful people, people who have even been convicts, and all that. Why, our last butler had been a prize fighter! ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ In spite of myself, I laughed, and after a moment she smiled in sympathy.
"We are not brilliant, certainly," I said at last. "In the first place, Miss Fleming, if I thought the thing was very serious I would not laugh—but no doubt a day or two will see everything straight. But, to go back to this eleven twenty-two—did you rouse the servants and have the house searched?"
"Yes, Annie said Carter had come back and she went to waken him, but although his door was locked inside, he did not answer. Annie and I switched on all the lights on the lower floor from the top of the stairs. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ I explained. "People sometimes have sudden and unaccountable lapses of memory and at those times they are apt to stray away from home. Has your father been worried lately?"
"He has not been himself at all. He has been irritable, even to me, and terrible to the servants. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ I had a queer feeling before I turned on the light that there was some one standing close to me, but the room was empty, and the hall, too."
"And the paper?"
"When I saw the room was empty I went in. The paper had been pinned to a pillow on the bed. At first I thought it had been dropped or had blown there. When I saw the pin I was startled. I went back to my room and rang for Annie, the second housemaid, who is also a sort of personal maid of mine. It was half-past three o'clock when Annie came down. I took her into father's room and showed her the paper. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — I. Sentiment and Clues (1910)

“ My father spends much of his time at the capital, and in the last two years, since my old governess went back to Germany, at those times I usually go to mother's sisters at Bellwood—Miss Letitia and Miss Jane Maitland. ”

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