Samuel Hopkins Adams

Name: The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst
Author: Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

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“The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst”, published in 1912, is a work by Samuel Hopkins Adams. It explores elements such as Astræa, Kent and wrist.

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ I got on my coat and sunk my robe in a creek, and got myself to the railroad station for a morning train. And when I got home I married Irene, and I am through with the crooked work forever.
“This is the whole truth. I did not kill her. I do not know to-day who or what she is. I have looked in the papers, and there is nothing, and that is so strange that I would think it was all a fearful dream, if it was not for my smashed-up wrist. But if any human being knows more about the death of Astræa, it must be the man who shouted as she fell from the cliff, and who went away and did not come back. ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ The gist of the system was to assign some particular and often imaginary star to every subject, and, by a natural aptitude for worming out secrets from the credulous, lead them along the celestial paths of mysticism to a point where he could reach their pocketbooks. He had been specially successful with women. One bit of his philosophy Kent had preserved unaltered.
“They bite slower than men; but when they do take hold, they swallow the hook so deep that you’re lucky to get it back at all.” ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ The dippiest star-chaser I ever worked was the head of a department in one of the big stores, and the fiercest little business woman in business hours, you ever knew. It’s the romantic in the sex that sets them skidding when it comes to stars, and such like. And Astræa was not a patch on some of them that has been paying me good sane money for years. ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ It was this gray-white rope, sort of clothes-line, and it looked strong.
“‘What now?’ I asked her.
“‘To bind us together,’ she said. ‘Close, close together, and then the plunge! This time there shall be no failure. They shall not find one of us without the other. ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ Irene, my assistant, had put the red pencil on it, when she sorted out the mail, to show it was something special. But don’t get her into this, Professor Kent. If you do, it’s all off, jewels and all. Irene has always been for the straight star business and forecast game, and no extras or side lines. ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ We set out. At the edge of the thicket was a flattish rock with small stones near it. Here I pretended to slip. I fell with my right wrist across a rock, and caught up a cobblestone with my left hand. At the first crack of the stone on the handcuff I could feel the old iron weaken. I got no chance for a second blow. Her hands were at my throat. They bit in. Then I knew it was a fight for my life.
“She was light; but she was strong like a panther. If her dress bound her, I was as bad off in my robe. ”

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Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Secret of Lonesome Cove — Chapter XIX. The Strange Tryst (1912)

“ Here the specimen of handwriting that had caught Kent’s eye was pasted upon the document.
“‘You have pointed out to me that our stars, swinging in mighty circles, are rushing on to a joint climax. Together we may force open the doors to the past, and sway the world as we sought to do in bygone days.’
“And so on and cetera,” continued the narrative. “Well, of course, she was nutty, that is, about the star business. But that don’t prove anything. ”

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