Samuel Hopkins Adams

“ The man was Gansett Jim. He carried a pick and a spade and walked slowly. Presently he disappeared in the willow-shaded place of mounds. The sound of his toil came, muffled, to the ears of the hidden man. ”

“ To the normal human being, the grisly insignium of death over a portal is provocative of anything rather than mirth. But Chester Kent, viewing the crape on Hedgerow House, laughed as he turned to the open road. ”

“ One of Kent’s Washington friends once criticized the scientist’s mode of motoring, as follows: “Kent’s a good driver, and a fast one, and careful; but he can never rid himself of the theory that there’s a strain of hunter in every well-bred motor-car.” ”