Mary Roberts Rinehart

Name: The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

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“The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife”, published in 1910, is a work by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It explores elements such as Wardrop, Fleming and Bellwood.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ I answered. "If we could get Wardrop there, on some plausible excuse, it would take Anderson about ten minutes with his instruments and experimental psychology, to know everything Wardrop ever forgot."
"I'll go on one condition," Burton said, preparing to leave. "I'll promise to get Wardrop and have him on the spot at two o'clock to-morrow, if you'll promise me one thing: if Anderson fixes me with his eye, and I begin to look dotty and tell about my past life, I want you to take me by the flap of my ear and lead me gently home." ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ The C puzzled him as it had me. "It might be anything," he said as he gave it back, "from a book, chapter and verse in the Bible to a prescription for rheumatism at a drug-store. As to the lady in the cab, I think perhaps you are right," he said, examining the interior of the bag, where Wardrop's name in ink told its story. "Of course, we have only Wardrop's word that he brought the bag to Bellwood; if we grant that we can grant the rest—that he was robbed, that the thief emptied the bag, and either took it or shipped it to Boston." ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ Fleming had been shot; Schwartz had been in the city about the Borough Bank; he had threatened Fleming before, but a political peace had been patched; Schwartz knew the White Cat. That was all.
Before she left she told me something I had not known.
"I know a lot about inside politics," she said, as she got up. "I have seen the state divided up with the roast at my table, and served around with the dessert, and I can tell you something you don't know about your White Cat. A back staircase leads to one of the up-stairs rooms, and shuts off with a locked door. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ Fleming's life?"
"He had already tried to kill him, the day we were married. He stabbed him twice, but not deep enough."
I looked at her in wonder. For this woman, not extraordinarily handsome, two men had fought and one had died—according to her story.
"I can prove everything I say," she went on rapidly. "I have letters from Mr. Fleming telling me what to do in case he was shot down; I have papers—canceled notes—that would put Schwartz in the penitentiary—that is," she said cunningly, "I did have them. Mr. Fleming took them away."
"Aren't you afraid for yourself?" I asked. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ There have been a shrewd lot of baggage thieves in two or three eastern cities lately, mostly Boston. The method, the police say, was something like this—one of them, the chief of the gang, would get a wagon, dress like an expressman and go round the depots looking at baggage. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ The police got on, raided the place, and found, among others, our Russia leather bag. It was shipped back, empty, to the address inside, at Bellwood."
"At Bellwood? Then how—"
"It came while I was lunching with Miss Letitia," he said easily. "We're very chummy—thick as thieves. What I want to know is"—disregarding my astonishment—"where is the hundred thousand?"
"Find the woman."
"Did you ever hear of Anderson, the nerve specialist?" he asked, without apparent relevancy. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat — XVII. His Second Wife (1910)

“ Still—she had left the village that night, either by cab or on foot. If the driver had been correct in his time, however, the taxicab was almost eliminated; he said the woman got into the cab at one-thirty. It was between one-thirty and one-forty-five when Margery heard the footsteps in the attic.
I think for the first time it came to me, that day, that there was at least a possibility that Miss Jane had not been attacked, robbed or injured: that she had left home voluntarily, under stress of great excitement. But if she had, why? ”

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