Mary Roberts Rinehart

Name: The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

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“The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night”, published in 1910, is a work by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It explores elements such as bag, candlestick and porch.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ The next instant I was flung heavily to the porch floor. I am not a small man by any means, but under the fury of that onslaught I was a child. It was a porch chair, I think, that knocked me senseless; I know I folded up like a jack-knife, and that was all I did know for a few minutes.
When I came to I was lying where I had fallen, and a candle was burning beside me on the porch floor. It took me a minute to remember, and another minute to realize that I was looking into the barrel of a revolver. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ He snatched the candle from me and, holding it up, searched my face. "Then—good God—where is my traveling-bag?"
"I have something in my head where you hit me," I said. "Perhaps that is it."
But my sarcasm was lost on him.
"I am Harry Wardrop," he said, "and I have been robbed, Mr. Knox. I was trying to get in the house without waking the family, and when I came back here to the front door, where I had left my valise, it was gone. I thought you were the thief when you came out, and—we've lost all this time. Somebody has followed me and robbed me!" ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ She looked from my swollen head to the open bag, and then to Wardrop's pale face. Then I think, woman-like, she remembered the two great braids that hung over her shoulders and the dressing-gown she wore, for she backed precipitately into the hall.
"I'm glad that's all it is," she called back cautiously, and we could hear her running up the stairs.
"You'd better go to bed," Wardrop said, picking up his hat. "I'm going down to the station. There's no train out of here between midnight and a flag train at four-thirty a.m. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ When I got here I set it down on the edge of the porch and tried the door. When I found it locked—"
"But it wasn't locked," I broke in. "When I came down-stairs to look for a burglar, I found it open at least an inch."
He stopped in his pacing up and down, and looked at me curiously.
"We're both crazy, then," he asserted gravely. "I tell you, I tried every way I knew to unlock that door, and could hear the chain rattling. Unlocked! You don't know the way this house is fastened up at night." ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ Use a little common sense. Some place to-night you have put down that bag, and some clever thief has substituted a similar one. It's an old trick."
He dropped into a chair and buried his face in his hands.
"It's impossible," he said after a pause, while he seemed to be going over, minute by minute, the events of the night. "I was followed, as far as that goes, in Plattsburg. Two men watched me from the minute I got there, on Tuesday; I changed my hotel, and for all of yesterday—Wednesday, that is—I felt secure enough. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — IV. A Thief in the Night (1910)

“ The thief might have thought that by leaving the majority of the gems he could postpone discovery indefinitely. But the Fleming case was of a different order. Taken by itself, Fleming's disappearance could have been easily accounted for. There must be times in the lives of all unscrupulous individuals when they feel the need of retiring temporarily from the public eye. ”

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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